this post was submitted on 28 Jul 2026
88 points (79.7% liked)
Memes
56461 readers
524 users here now
Rules:
- Be civil and nice.
- Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.
founded 7 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
US soldiers are not "uwu smol beans" just trying to get free healthcare.
They don't deserve praise or sympathy for doing their job, which is to further the goals of US imperialists. They deserve accountability and scorn for every drone strike. Every blown up family. Every fucking village they've reduced to ash. They are not precious victims. They are the boot on the neck of the world. They are the monsters the children of the global south wake up to at night in terror.
They don't know they're the fucking boot. I won't give them praise but I will give them sympathy. They don't know what they signed up for. They're kids born into an echo chamber of American propaganda. They don't know what they're doing. Nobody at that age does. Don't celebrate their deaths, they're victims too.
That quite literally doesn't matter. Being fucking stupid or ignorant or whatever you want to call it is no excuse to be the bloodthirsty murderers of the world.
Why are you here defending Jack booted thugs from slight criticism?
I am not defending thugs, I'm defending misled kids
Wrong. Those thugs are murdering millions of innocent civilians around the world for 80 years.
Unlike you and most people trying to convince me every US soldier is a stormtrooper for the empire, I have family in the region and know people directly affected by this war.
I never said that US soldiers are innocent, I just don't celebrate them dying because I think human life is valuable. Edgeposting online feels very cool but doesn't do anything to end this conflict. If you were so against US imperialism you would do things like protest at home and tell you representatives you're against it. Demonizing soldiers online is just childish and immature.
More US soldiers dying will also not let the conflict end sooner which would be the best outcome. Those dozens who have died so far will be replaced by others.
Doesn't seem to me like this is an extremly pro-US position.
You don't know what I do and don't do and who I do and don't know. I'll continue to celebrate US soldier deaths and you can keep pathetically mourning these white supremacist tools of destruction.
This does not work lol
What, after 3 of these NoKings """protests""" that there was no change whatsoever? The frog costumes doesn't convince anyone. 3 paragraph signs doesn't convince anyone.
The Viet Minh should have simply written strongly worded letters to US senators to convince them to stop incinerating their villages. But alas they chose violence instead, which makes them just as bad as the US death-and-rape squads. I am a serious anti-imperialist and these are my very cool thoughts
Viet Minh did but forgot their frog costumes so they weren't able to convince the US.
No, obviously it's not enough, but still better than being an edgelord online.
In what way is doing frog costume bullshit better than dismantling the harmful mythology of our monstrous death machine