Today I learned AOL still exists.
Most people forgot about them shortly after they stopped making free frisbees.
I only know Aol. got sold to “Apollo Global Management” after Verizon media destroyed it.
I ping excite.com for similar reasons. It’s dns would not be cached on the local machine.
I’ve noticed quite a bit of information posted from sources i don’t really recognize. I usually try to find an AP article if i can since most outlets are just quoting them anyway.
Edit: people seem to think recognize = aware of. I don’t recognize AOL as a news source.
Seriously… can we normalize posting the breaker / source of the story rather than rewarding these journalists who repost and reword it? Lemmy has a problem Reddit had but was never willing to fix - this board design rewards bad news sources and sensationalism.
https://ground.news/article/8e56e12e-7288-4ab4-ba1f-bc57aefe43ab
Ground news bias page for this story
This is the likely source of the story
I just read the article. This guy seems like an asshole through and through.
I mean to be fair assault and public intox are about what i’d expect out of most military vets. It isn’t like the VA’s giving them good mental health assistance after they return home.
Most?
There are many traumatized combat troops out there, but most find help (despite the VA) and live lives out of the spotlight.
And most of the military is just a huge interstate money laundering ring for big military contracting companies wasting our tax dollars.
That said, mental health, pensions, and support systems by all measures need improving and we should all be pushing our congress to get off their asses and pay for it.
This guy probably has so much PTSD and so much yearning for the adrenaline that war provided him.
The Man who Killed Osama Bin Laden… is Screwed (Esquire)
“I’m not religious, but I always felt I was put on the earth to do something specific. After that mission, I knew what it was.”
Of course this guy is a violent drunk and a conservative! This country has treated him like SHIT.
“No one who fights for this country overseas should ever have to fight for a job,” Barack Obama said last Veterans’ Day (2012)
After sixteen years in the Navy, his body filled with scar tissue, arthritis . . . he gets from his employer and a grateful nation:
Nothing. No pension, no healthcare for his wife and kids, no protection for himself or his family.
He’s taken that as a calling - and become yet another angry conservative grifter. Speaking engagements, media appearances, tweeting hateful bullshit for attention. Since claiming he was The Shooter (of Osama) he’s claimed to have been a key member in other SEAL missions that have been made into movies. Who knows the truth? Nobody is allowed to correct him, and that’s why he can build this brand for himself.
His shit stirring is always newsworthy and pushed in front of us. Anti-mask shit, transphobic shit. So I’m happy we can see his miserable personal failures, too.
