Okay, new guys, here's the deal: You aren't here to fight for freedom and you aren't here to fight for the safety of the American people. You aren't even here to fight for the bottom line of one or more shitty corporations which make the news on a regular basis.
The two replacements just look at me, uncomprehending what I'm trying to get across to them.
You aren't here to fight for your buddies. That's the dumbest excuse of all, because they wouldn't be your buddies if you weren't here, right? No. And you aren't here to spread democracy, for fuck's sake. You can't make someone be democratic, it's a Goddamn contradiction in terms.
They just stare.
You aren't here to fight for any of these abstract notions. You're here because you're monsters. You're here because you like to fight, and the present enemy will do.
I hand a rifle to each of my two children, a grin, no a rictus, on my face.
Come on. You'll like it.
Oh, crap. I both welome and dread where this might be going.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on November 25, 2013, 03:43:05 PM
Oh, crap. I both welome and dread where this might be going.
It is where it was going.
There wasn't any more to it. That's the point where I woke up bolt upright.
My son is in the Marines now, as you know, and my daughter is enlisting in the army.
That will make 6 straight generations of soldiers/sailors in the family.
This is some dark shit right here.
There is no rational response I can make to it, and I guess that's what you mean by the civilian therapists looking horrified when you talk about it to them.
The End of The World is Coming.
Quote from: Payne on November 25, 2013, 03:47:57 PM
This is some dark shit right here.
There is no rational response I can make to it, and I guess that's what you mean by the civilian therapists looking horrified when you talk about it to them.
The End of The World is Coming.
Naw. We've been doing this shit for 8000 years at least.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on November 25, 2013, 03:50:04 PM
Quote from: Payne on November 25, 2013, 03:47:57 PM
This is some dark shit right here.
There is no rational response I can make to it, and I guess that's what you mean by the civilian therapists looking horrified when you talk about it to them.
The End of The World is Coming.
Naw. We've been doing this shit for 8000 years at least.
:cry:
Yeah, and if all goes to plan we'll be able to do it for a few more years yet. I reckon that for all of those wars, battles, skirmishes and police actions someone thought The End Was Nigh, and unfortunately for all too many of them it was.
In your position I think I might have shat my pance. :horrormirth:
This is gutwrenching and powerful.
Ouch. :(
QuoteYou aren't here to fight for your buddies. That's the dumbest excuse of all, because they wouldn't be your buddies if you weren't here, right? No. And you aren't here to spread democracy, for fuck's sake. You can't make someone be democratic, it's a Goddamn contradiction in terms.
THIS.
This should be on t-shirts.
War is addictive
Violence trumps any argument
Anyone who tells you otherwise is either lying or has a belly full of kool-aid
Give peace a chance?
Peace has no (zero) chance
Never had / never will
Conflict is inevitable
Escalation is assured
We are weaponised apes
We cannot be deactivated
QuoteEscalation is assured
Not only assured, but desirable and good for the economy. The Markets demand escalation of all things because anything else is slavery.
Quote from: Junkenstein on November 26, 2013, 10:59:00 AM
The Market demand escalation of all things because anything else is slavery.
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