• Warl0k3@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    Good grief, no if you can’t understand that the only person here making these claims is you then there truly isn’t a way forward.

    Let me highlight the problems in communication:

    This Manichean distinction i feel it’s useless at war.

    We agree. (edit: and you’re the only one claiming it exists)

    propaganda tends to make it’s people over reactive of their affairs and dismissive of the rest of the world.

    We agree.

    And it is even more useless at the wars America is pushing right now

    We agree.

    I am sorry if i don’t love or respect or care for your soldiers.

    Nobody is asking you to do that.

    You are going to see your little soldiers as poor victims because they are yours.

    Nobody is doing that.

    But if you can’t swallow the pill that the exterminator has more power and agency than the exterminated even at the individual level

    When has that ever been a topic of discussion except to tell you that it’s not relevant to the point being made?

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      16 hours ago

      Then i don’t understand what is your problem. All of the points i made arrive to the conclusion that American soldiers are killers. Because in all American wars as of late the balance of power has tilted severely towards the American army to the point where the army and it’s soldiers have all the agency in the killing. If someone does nazi shit, they might be a nazi. And there is research that points towards the possibility that military induction creates sociopathic responses in the individual, hence psycho killers.

      My stupid comment in the beginning of this thread was informed by those two fundamental ideas i have.

      And considering the soldiers of an invading force as an enemy is part of the nature of war. And it seems that your current Government is not content with doing extermination wars far away, they also want to threaten all it’s allies and neighboring countries with war. So these military men can be safely be seen not only as enemies by a lot of neighboring countries. they are potential dangerous killers. willingly or not. And these are the rules America uses to refer to interventions and killing in other countries. they call other people things i would not to repeat in this distinguished thread to mark them as an enemy. So why are you so surprised when that language is directed not towards you, but a vague representation of american military men?

      Was i trolling? yeah. Do i really feel this way? Yes.

      (In a few messages the original poster of the picture will come and say: Hey guys this picture is actually two British soldiers and all this conversation will be for nothing.")

      • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        2 hours ago
        1. Even though the image is very compressed, the uniforms worn are almost certainly Desert Tan 500 comprised, most likely MARPAT desert configuration. These are US marines.

        2. Sorry, I give genuine answers to even troll questions. I like to think that those I’m messaging with are arguing in good faith and I try to give the best information and explanation from my point of view (as a civilian citizen of the US, and as an Electrical Engineer for relevant topics outside of here).