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Remember, no one has ever had an actual redemption arc, no one has ever had strong convictions and then realized they were horrifically misplaced, and definitely, no solider has ever come back from a war and realized then that the machine that sent them to fight was the true enemy, the entire time.
Smedley Butler?
Evans Carlson?
Howard Zinn?
Wesley Everest?
Brian McGinnis?
No, none of them, none of that, nothing like that has ever happened in the history of the US.
I think its entirely possible he has changed. I am just distrustful of politicians and people who seek positions of power.
Sorry, my snark wasn't directed at you specifically, I should have been more clear about that.
It is always completely reasonable to be highly, highly skeptical of any politician.
I'm just mostly pissed at the level of purity testing on display here in the image, which I'm near certain comes from a bunch of priveleged permaonline dorks that are mostly into leftism for their own ability to feel smug and be the best crab in online leftist pot.
Oh yeah, I thought that you might not be directing it at me but then I second guessed myself and figured I should play it safe. Thanks for the clarification.
No problem! =D
And Aaron Bushnell
Warning, self emmolation: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/2/26/suicide-vs-genocide-rest-in-power-aaron-bushnell
Fucking hell, I'm ashamed I forgot about him.
... when I went to Uni, an underpaid and then fired groundskeeper/janitorial staff member... immolated himself in a similar manner, in the middle of a square with a lot of student foot traffic.
No clue if he was ex military or not, the story was barely covered by any even local media...
I wasn't close enough in time or space to directly see it, but my friend was, destroyed his own coat trying to put out the flames...
By the time I got there it was basically a crime scene, saw the smoke, but not the fire... just a burn mark... ambulances, crash carts...
I remeber watching Anark break down into tears when Bushnell sacrificed himself... Anark had known him personally...
I've got enough PTSD from similar things (and other things, now) that I just blocked all of it out.