• Belly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      37·
      3 months ago

      Shows exactly why the US lost. We were so focused on kill ratios that we ignored war crimes (or straight-up encouraged them) and material conditions. Wars aren’t won by whichever side kills more people. That hasn’t been the case in any war, ever. Even if all those people actually were troops (they weren’t), it doesn’t mean anything if you have no objectives to accomplish.

      If this fuck didn’t get spat on, he fucking should’ve been.

  • SugandeseDelegation@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    35·
    3 months ago

    The more comments I read on Youtube, Facebook, Reddit and Twitter, the less I sleep and the more I risk a stroke. Idk how you manage going through all that crap

    • -6-6-6-@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      30·
      3 months ago

      The more you realize it’s just kids and emotionally immature adults having performative cruelty contests the better off you’ll be. In a way, it’s liberating to be a communist in a time like this. No need to constantly puke up, rehash and then consume again the same shitty, edgy, racist or purposefully inciteful bullshit.

      All though, I deleted certain social media. Some are just straight up playground telephones with a fascist on the other end. You can probably guess which ones, lol.

      • SugandeseDelegation@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        16·
        3 months ago

        Indeed, although it’s their numbers, especially irl, that I find disheartening sometimes. Like, I interact with plenty of decent people too, but reactionaries are always the most outspoken and seen as the most authoritative in the circles I’m in (mostly work related). At the end of the day, their opinions fit in the discourse space allowed by the MSM, so they don’t come across as crazy, and they tend to be more career focused and therefore 1) the impression of work competency carries over in other areas, and 2) they spend less time exploring other areas of life like politics, and they are, like you pointed out, immature adults.

        • PeeOnYou [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
          7·
          3 months ago

          this is my experience too. Our CEO likes to come into any political discussion with his libbrained straight from snl and msnbc programmed opinions and talk over everyone else. Then people either agree or just shut up because it’s not worth losing an income over

          • -6-6-6-@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
            4·
            3 months ago

            I think the matter at hand is regardless of the views of the executive/“superior” it’s that they’re in a higher level above you doing fuck-all so they’re probably going to talk over you regardless. The only executive I ever met was visiting at the nursing home I worked at that was already falling apart, defunded, etc and the fucker had the gall to walk up to his minimum wage lackey putting in ceiling tiles and go “Oh man, I remember when I had to do that too!”. Slip of the hand and a huge chunk of ceiling dust, tile shredding and German cockroaches and their shit (was a shithole) fall out of the ceiling on both of us when the tile splits in half. Was gross but worth it.

  • SpaceDogs@lemmygrad.ml
    29·
    3 months ago

    Wait, he served in the Vietnam war? And wants a do-over? Oh wait, this actually makes sense, he’s mad that the US lost so he wants to live the fantasy of if they won the war. Based on his replies he just really hates the Vietnamese and doesn’t know that CoD is not, in fact, historically accurate. “Erasing history,” get the fuck out of here.

  • Adhriva@lemmygrad.ml
    28·
    3 months ago

    “We lost the war politically but not casualties.” How to tell people you’ve never read Clausewitz.

    • Mzuark@lemmygrad.ml
      15·
      3 months ago

      I don’t know what that is, but it’s such an American mindset as sad as that is. A lot of people can’t comprehend that the point of war isn’t to completely depopulate a country. People like that dude in the OP think we won in Vietnam because we killed millions of people.

      • SadArtemis🏳️‍⚧️@lemmygrad.ml
        15·
        3 months ago

        It’s the settler, barbarian mentality. Exclusive to the so-called “civilized world” under whose 500 years of terror unparalleled deprivation, the destruction of entire (actual) civilizations and peoples, and mass slaughter, genocides, and slavery existed across the globe to such an extent as was previously unimaginable.

        They should be grateful that the rest of humanity- those who actually embrace humanity- don’t have that same mentality, that the overwhelming majority of humanity does not seek revenge or anything comparable to it, but simply restitution, reparations, independence, and deterrence. Otherwise all of western Europe (except Ireland and certain ethnic enclaves/regions) and the settler-encampments in Isntreal and across the Anglosphere would have long ago been eradicated in their entirety and even then that would not be enough considering the crimes they’ve done and continue to commit.

    • Large Bullfrog@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      14·
      3 months ago

      Even then the causality difference isn’t quite as extreme if you count South Vietnamese army loses. The US always prefers to have it’s puppets take the blunt.

  • _____English
    20·
    3 months ago

    American propaganda franchise won’t allow for sensitive American subjects. More news at 6.

  • Mzuark@lemmygrad.ml
    17·
    3 months ago

    As a guy who actually likes COD, I often wondered that myself before I learned about just how vile our militaries activities were during the Vietnam war.