100 years ago, we looked over at Europe descending into madness, and we thought to ourselves, "That looks like a GREAT idea". So, within 2 years, we were filling up trenches in Europe with dead kids right alongside all the Europeans. We generated Mud, which is a hostile deity of some sort, as anyone who's ever had to march in it knows, and we fed the REAL winners of the war (corpse-eating rats) with some high-quality cuts of gassed and exploded bodies.
We weren't the first idiots to do this. You can go all the way back to the Hittites and see the exact same thing.
The Greeks, though, were the ones that did it with style. They had HEROES, giants that we remember by name, long after we've forgotten who they fought and why. Of course, being a "hero" involved some WEIRD SHIT, like fucking your own mother, putting out your own eyes, and dying miserably in exile. So the Romans didn't go for that as much. We remember their generals, to a degree, but only the ones that wrote books.
In more modern times, you had some "front cover heroes" like Sergeant York and Audie Murphy, but even thought they had balls like brass cantalopes, hardly anyone remembers what they DID, and to WHOM. I guess they skipped the "fucking your own mom" part of the equation.
So what you have is masses of young men, nameless & faceless except to their families and their squads, helping build giant stacks of bones (their own and other people) which is somehow tied to "freedom", despite the fact that all but one of our wars as Americans (the War of 1812) was fought in other lands, and almost always in the interests of beating up brown people and taking their shit, as well as insuring that the rich get richer while the middle class gets poorer and the working class goes into outright destitution.
So, to recap: Mud, corpse eating rats, stacks of bones, no heroes, and people all torqued up with war fever while the real principals lick their lips and chuckle.
And that's what Veteran's Day celebrates.
You're welcome.
That gave me a bit of a shiver
Are you gonna post that to FB groups and ruin their day?
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on November 11, 2014, 03:43:24 PM
Are you gonna post that to FB groups and ruin their day?
Already on it.
:lulz:
I am so far:
A traitor
A hippie
A Godless liberal
A communist
A supporter of the Caliphate (wtf?)
A disgrace to my former uniform
And thrown out of the Hamilton branch of the family, as if THAT hasn't happened before. Because Canadians hate un-American shit.
No comments on my page yet, though.
Wow, that was fast.
:lol:
I am now also:
A bitter liberal
A libertarian ( :lulz: )
Ungrateful
Unaware that soldiers are all that is keeping the hordes of MOOSLIMS from overrunning the country.
TOO YOUNG TO KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT.
:lulz:
Yup, we've had much the same thing over here, with much the same results.
It's amazing how so many people can watch politicians draping themselves in the corpses of dead and mutiliated soldiers to justify their current wars and shore up their flagging popularity and not spit blood.
I mean, did no-one actually pay attention to what the soldiers of WWI thought about the war? Apparently not, going by our current track record.
Quote from: Cain on November 11, 2014, 04:44:53 PM
Yup, we've had much the same thing over here, with much the same results.
It's amazing how so many people can watch politicians draping themselves in the corpses of dead and mutiliated soldiers to justify their current wars and shore up their flagging popularity and not spit blood.
I mean, did no-one actually pay attention to what the soldiers of WWI thought about the war? Apparently not, going by our current track record.
Nope. While they were still alive, the government would gag them with food at Armistice Day celebrations, then holler jingoism through the mic.
Rudyard Kipling put it quite eloquently (as one would expect):
I could not dig: I dared not rob:
Therefore I lied to please the mob.
Now all my lies are proved untrue
And I must face the men I slew.
What tale shall serve me here among
Mine angry and defrauded young?
Quote from: Cain on November 12, 2014, 09:37:25 AM
Rudyard Kipling put it quite eloquently (as one would expect):
I could not dig: I dared not rob:
Therefore I lied to please the mob.
Now all my lies are proved untrue
And I must face the men I slew.
What tale shall serve me here among
Mine angry and defrauded young?
Oh, that's good.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on November 12, 2014, 11:55:33 AM
Quote from: Cain on November 12, 2014, 09:37:25 AM
Rudyard Kipling put it quite eloquently (as one would expect):
I could not dig: I dared not rob:
Therefore I lied to please the mob.
Now all my lies are proved untrue
And I must face the men I slew.
What tale shall serve me here among
Mine angry and defrauded young?
Oh, that's good.
Almost all of his stuff was. "Cleared" could have been written about the Bush administration.
UPDATE:
I have now been told by 38 people that either I never served, or that my service "doesn't count" because I am not to the right of Galtieri, do not belong to the Cult of the Dead Servicemember, and/or posted the above rant.
I know, IRL, some of the people who said this, and the funniest bit is they didn't do any time in the service. :lulz:
The last month or two has really struck a blow to my understanding of humanity.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on November 12, 2014, 03:17:41 PM
The last month or two has really struck a blow to my understanding of humanity.
It's reinforced mine. :whack:
It's all about the cult of patriotism, LMNO.
If there were some way to slip how Led Zeppelin and Ron Paul sucked into this rant, you'd probably cause Facebook to implode.
Quote from: Cain on November 12, 2014, 03:33:10 PM
If there were some way to slip how Led Zeppelin and Ron Paul sucked into this rant, you'd probably cause Facebook to implode.
You have inspired me.
I must write the ultimate troll rant.
So, abortion, gun rights, atheists and the above named? Trying to think of more, but it's been 32 hours since I last slept, so things are hazy.
Has to be coherent, of course. Just throwing labels around is cheating, and more importantly might even cause the dullards on FB to catch on.
Quote from: Cain on November 12, 2014, 03:37:59 PM
So, abortion, gun rights, atheists and the above named? Trying to think of more, but it's been 32 hours since I last slept, so things are hazy.
Has to be coherent, of course. Just throwing labels around is cheating, and more importantly might even cause the dullards on FB to catch on.
Circumcision
Spanking
Abortion
Obamacare
The War on Christmas
Sharia Law
Gun control
Ron Paul
What have I missed?
PUA/MRA/privilege.