Now the left needs to be hammered relentlessly so that they learn their lesson from this. You can not "redeem" yourself as a military service person unless you relentlessly hammer home that it was wrong, that you regret being in it, and that you condemn it. They must dedicate their lives to opposition to it and redemption. The redeemable veterans are like Mike Prysner.
And they need to fucking learn that this "oh but joining the military is ok" shit is absurd. It's not. It's never ok. There are no leftist veterans. There are no leftist former veterans unless they're deeply opposed to the military and what it does.
You can't be a pro or even neutral-military leftist. All the good veterans are anti-military and all the good leftists are also anti-military.
I don't even fucking understand who they think they're pandering to by babying military personnel. Do they think that by telling them what they do is fine they will come around and become leftists? Pro-imperialism leftists? Like wtf is anyone in the left thinking? The only military personnel that are likely to become leftists are the ones seeing what the military is doing and reacting with sheer horror and guilt at it all.

rallied people around him!