🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 4 months agoAnon learns that his grandfather dodged being draftedsh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square57fedilinkarrow-up121arrow-down10
arrow-up121arrow-down1imageAnon learns that his grandfather dodged being draftedsh.itjust.works🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 4 months agomessage-square57fedilink
minus-squareVaryk@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up19·4 months agoThis is based as far as I can tell. It’s a bummer how killing strangers for your government is glorified.
minus-squareMakhno@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·4 months ago It’s a bummer how killing strangers for your government is glorified. It’s definitely more palatable when the strangers you’re killing are nazis
minus-squareLileath@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 months agoBut the story in the greentext takes place in 1932, before the Nazis even got into power in Germany.
minus-squareVaryk@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·4 months agoI can agree that there’s been an extremely minuscule amount of justifiable war in an endless number of wars.
minus-squareich_iel@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 months ago It’s a bummer how killing strangers for your government is glorified. Killing for yourself: Government will track you down, kick your door in and throw you in prison and maybe send you into the death row. Killing for your government: Government will provide training, shelter, equipment, pay you and award you medals.
minus-squarekhaleer@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 months agoDo not forget about right to rape and steal dishwashers on your government enemy territory!
minus-squarer00ty@kbin.lifelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 months agoKilling for your government: Government will track you down, kick your door in and throw you in prison for refusing to. Fixed thar for you :P
minus-squarecheddar@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 months agoTribalism. Our tribe is good, their tribe is bad. If you are not with your tribe, you are a traitor, so people are pressurized into this, and start believing lies about our glorious pride and wise leaders.
minus-squareVaryk@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·4 months agoProbably a cooler picture than Stanhope appreciates, but:
This is based as far as I can tell.
It’s a bummer how killing strangers for your government is glorified.
It’s definitely more palatable when the strangers you’re killing are nazis
But the story in the greentext takes place in 1932, before the Nazis even got into power in Germany.
I can agree that there’s been an extremely minuscule amount of justifiable war in an endless number of wars.
except they mostly weren’t
Killing for yourself: Government will track you down, kick your door in and throw you in prison and maybe send you into the death row.
Killing for your government: Government will provide training, shelter, equipment, pay you and award you medals.
Do not forget about right to rape and steal dishwashers on your government enemy territory!
Killing for your government: Government will track you down, kick your door in and throw you in prison for refusing to.
Fixed thar for you :P
Tribalism. Our tribe is good, their tribe is bad. If you are not with your tribe, you are a traitor, so people are pressurized into this, and start believing lies about our glorious pride and wise leaders.
Probably a cooler picture than Stanhope appreciates, but: