Charlottesville, Virginia (3-8-2025)
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Aw, the storm trooper feels bad about serving in the empire's army!
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Broad strokes are funny coming from a self proclaimed queer communist. Pot meets kettle and all that.
We're talking about a specific army of a specific country, that's hardly "broad strokes"
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“Again.”
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The only veterans I respect are the ones that become anti-US by the time they get out.
If they're wishing for the good ol' days when they could be proud of the US, fuck em.
I have known a couple who were anti-US when they went in. One had very few other options financially, and the other figured why not get their education on the country's dime, get trained on how to be stronger and how to fight, and then use those talents to do their part in bringing down the system once they got out. Even while they were in, they were training people on the outside. One of their trainees was a top operative in Seattle in 2020; they kept the cops at bay in the Capitol Hill Autonomized Zone (CHAZ) for a month.
Keep in mind, I'm not saying don't be wary of enlisted people...definitely be wary. Just don't paint with such broad strokes. Some have needs, some have reasons, and some are in the process of becoming radicalized.
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We're talking about a specific army of a specific country, that's hardly "broad strokes"
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Sad day to see someone patriotic admit that. For better or worse, damn that had to hurt.
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It's a fucking travesty what this country, and particularly this administration, has done to veterans.
But it's damn good to see them waking up out of the Fox News bubble and starting to fight back.
Why? Because it was when the veterans began to fight back against Hoover, that the real impetus behind the Conservation Corps and the subsequent New Deal started, and real progressive change began in America.
Here's your daily dose of Historical Context, the Bonus Army of 1932:
The Bonus Army was a group of 43,000 demonstrators – 17,000 veterans of U.S. involvement in World War I, their families, and affiliated groups – who gathered in Washington, D.C., in mid-1932 to demand early cash redemption of their service bonus certificates. Organizers called the demonstrators the Bonus Expeditionary Force (B.E.F.), to echo the name of World War I's American Expeditionary Forces, while the media referred to them as the "Bonus Army" or "Bonus Marchers". The demonstrators were led by Walter W. Waters, a former sergeant.
Many of the war veterans had been out of work since the beginning of the Great Depression. The World War Adjusted Compensation Act of 1924 had awarded them bonuses in the form of certificates they could not redeem until 1945. Each certificate, issued to a qualified veteran soldier, bore a face value equal to the soldier's promised payment with compound interest. The principal demand of the Bonus Army was the immediate cash payment of their certificates.
On July 28, 1932, U.S. Attorney General William D. Mitchell ordered the veterans removed from all government property. Washington police met with resistance, shot at the protestors, and two veterans were wounded and later died. President Herbert Hoover then ordered the U.S. Army to clear the marchers' campsite. Army Chief of Staff General Douglas MacArthur commanded a contingent of infantry and cavalry, supported by six tanks. The Bonus Army marchers with their wives and children were driven out, and their shelters and belongings burned.
A second, smaller Bonus March in 1933 at the start of the Roosevelt administration was defused in May with an offer of jobs with the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) at Fort Hunt, Virginia, which most of the group accepted. Those who chose not to work for the CCC by the May 22 deadline were given transportation home. In 1936, Congress overrode President Roosevelt's veto and paid the veterans their bonus nine years early.
When veterans get mad and organize, real change can happen. They're the political group that has the most potential to affect real revolutionary change - they've received the military training, they know how to organize, and if need be, they know how to defend themselves.
Get mad. Get angry. Get on the streets and join us to take this country back. Stop letting the GOP fuck you.
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Do Finnish people know what happiness is, though?
It could be like death and stupidity and they can't tell.
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Sorry bud. We're in a downward spiral that ain't ending any time soon.
You're gonna be waiting a long time. If ever.
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Great, lemmy.ml is here.
Eww. lemmy.ml is gross.
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Sorry bud. We're in a downward spiral that ain't ending any time soon.
You're gonna be waiting a long time. If ever.
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That's sad
Hope you'll get back up
