Frank [he/him, he/him]
Nice try feds
Stop making fun of people who don’t have chins, too. Being weird looking doesn’t make you a Nazi and if you’re going to mock them mock them for being a Nazi.
Like, people are making fun of fat nazis in body armor and shit because… they don’t look like the fake media image of hard core ripped Nazi skinheads that the media uses to make being a skinhead seem like a cool bad boy thing.
Of course they don’t look like that. They’re just Americans, and Americans are fat because we have too much sugar in everything we consume. Being a Nazi doesn’t make someone fat and being fat doesn’t make someone a Nazi, and mocking them for being fat is just shitty.
Hey look the libs are fucked but back in the late 60s there were a bunch of women in Chicago who learned how to do medical abortions in their kitchens. They did about 11,000 abortions without any fatalities, and that’s without access to RU-486.
I hope there is just a hotline somewhere that will smuggle RU-486 in wherever it’s needed and I just don’t know about it, but if there isn’t someone should get on that.
Insurgency: Sandstorm was going to be YPG/J vs ISIS but they toned it down to not piss of Turkey or something. Still, it stands out that you’re playing as (presumably Kurdish, since you can play as a woman on the “Security Forces” side) local security forces instead of the US or something.
1.) Cops can quit
2.) Cops are a completely separate class of petty landless warriors who are distinct from American society. They have class interests that differ from both the working class and bourgeois due to their unique position as the only habitually armed class in society.
3.) Vets are almost all working class upon leaving the military.
I re-read the thing again
If you or someone you love has been war crimed you can yell at the troops
If you are performatively hand-wringing on behalf of an imaginary person you have created in your mind who has been war crimed please shut the fuck up.
Cops and soldiers, believe it or not, have very different motivations and experiences that lead to very different outcomes. Lots of soldiers come back from the mistake they made at 18 thinking “god damn that was a huge fucking mistake I should fight against the thing I contributed to”.
Cops don’t do this. Cops get pay raises for twenty years then do shitloads of overtime and then retire with six figure pensions.
There are a lot of leftist veterans because most people become soldiers for reasons like “I wanted to serve my country” or “I’m from a military family” or “I want to get out of this one horse town” or “I want to see the world”. Then they spend four or six years not doing that, realize their country is bullshit and everything they’ve been taught about it is a lie, maybe directly do some war crimes, and then when their contract comes up they’ve got PTSD, disability, and a seething hatred for the US government.
Cops don’t have that experience. People become cops either 1.) Because they want to help people in their communities or 2.) Because they get off on authority and want to use fear and violence to make other people respect them. People in group 1.) usually wash out within a year or become people in group 2.) People in group 2.) do cop shit for twenty years then retired with huge pensions because being a cop is pretty easy and unless you die of a heart attack or do too many crimes too publicly you can basically just cruise til retirement.
Are their roles in imperialism similar? Sure, they are. But the people involved are very different, the way they experience imperialism is very different, and their outcomes are very different.
To whit; At one point during Vietnam there were commies trying to organize the enlisted troops and they almost got away with it.
No one has ever tried to organize the cops.
I honestly don’t know where this hand-wringing about The Troops comes from. It certainly doesn’t come from theory or the lessons of any revolution ever, anywhere in the world. Reading through here I’m starting to suspect it’s a cultural diffusion of the conservative canard that “Anti-War protestors spit on returning soldiers”, like people just assume that the Troops must hate the left and the left must hate the troops because that’s what we were taught growing up and everyone just believed it.
Are we talking about advocacy and empathy or are we talking about extremely online people trying to score points on twitter by being more woke than thou?
Contributing to orgs that actually do things is advocacy, listening to people who have experienced the sharp end of imperialism is empathy.
Deliberately poking a sleeping shark in the ass on twitter because you know it’ll do something exciting is neither of those.
