• DankZedong OP
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    272 years ago

    This is what happens when you join the US army. You go to a foreign country not even remotely possible to be a threat to you, you kill innocent people and when you return you can get fucked and live in a tent next to the highway, needing drugs to tone down your PTSD.

    Not once has the US been in realistic danger of defending itself. Your only goal is to go out and kill innocent people for your capitalist overlords.

  • May every yankee Vietnam vet get a very long and painful death million times worse than what they did to women, children and elderly in country who did nothing to them but they decided to bomb it just like every other from WW2 until today

    Respectfully❤️

  • @CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml
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    192 years ago

    They were not called baby killer. The FBI didn’t want them to be radicalised in anti war groups and spread that lie. None of them were bullied upon their return.

  • @cayde6ml@lemmygrad.ml
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    172 years ago

    Potentially unpopular opinion:

    99.99 percent of Amerikkkan Vietnam veterans (and also Afghanistan, Kuwait and Iraq “veterans”)

    belong in the goddamn ground.

    The only exceptions are those that can possibly help the revolution through tactics.

    • SovereignState
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      112 years ago

      Comrade fraggers 💣

      Ajamu Baraka was drafted, and spent most of his time in a military base in Germany allegedly. He’s the one exception I know of

  • Bury The Right
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    122 years ago

    Oh Boo fucking Hoo that you might be shunned by at most like 5% of the population while the other 95% completely licks your fucking boots.

  • I can feel bad for a lot of those soldiers. Many were drafted, and forced to fight in a capitalist war the cause of which was lied about, and after the red scare the framework to be critical of it was limited. While some could be critical of it, that was not the average experience for people in the US. Those who were consistently lied to and forced to go I can feel bad for. Doesn’t mean that I or anyone else should forgive their atrocities, but I can feel sympathetic towards why they were the way they were.

    • @xenautika@lemmygrad.ml
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      42 years ago

      ya, being drafted, as in being forced into compulsory violence, is a lot different than signing up. and often those who sign up post-draft have already had imperialism visit their neighborhoods. “serving your country” under duress and intimidation

  • Well, they kill babies. What do they expect? A celebration?

    They have a whole generation of movies and media focusing on them being badass and heroic DESPITE all the crap they’ve done and being kicked out by a literal third world country using military equipments an entire generation behind them, yet they’re crying for more respect they never deserved?

  • SovereignState
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    82 years ago

    Once got called a liberal and told I was being idiotic and counter-revolutionary by someone I considered a close friend and comrade because I said I’m inherently distrusting of “veterans” and probably couldn’t be personal friends with someone who committed atrocities elsewhere even if they felt sorry for what they did. I don’t give a shit if it’s liberal or idealist or whatever, I’m not sure I’d be able to ignore the blood on their hands. Organizing with them… that’s up to the party. They should probably undergo an even more strict vetting process than non-“veterans”.

    I also hate that fucking term. “Veteran”. “Served”. You’re not a fucking hero, you didn’t serve anyone but oil and MIC kingpins, you’re a fucking fool who got duped into killing foreign innocents to line their pockets. We’re all fucking fools doing the same in one way or another, but not much compares to literally picking up a gun and murdering people. The ‘left’ doesn’t give the fascistic U.S. police a pass, I’m not sure they should be so quick to do so for military pigs, they’re just police stationed elsewhere.

  • @folaht@lemmygrad.ml
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    62 years ago

    I don’t know about US veterans, but I’m willing to put money on Vietnam veterans being well respected by their public and government.