will always be back then

it's important to yell "fuck you kill yourself" at the tv advertisements to counteract the mind control

you will see something that the us military has done and it will be the most horrifying thing in the world. something that should be the catalyst for a complete upheaval of the system, for riots in the streets, for national mourning periods and rewritten textbooks and decades of reparations. and the whole time it's just a normal day for them. they did something like it yesterday and they'll do it again tomorrow. the lucky ones even get to come home and spend the rest of their lives getting discounts at the movies and applause at baseball games. and if you try to express any this to the average person irl they will act like you shot their dog in front of them

muted this post long long ago. but i think many of you need to learn to hold two things in your head at once. nobody is in here telling you what relationship to have with your veteran parent/sibling/friend/whatever, but the fact still remains that they did what they did. whether they killed anyone directly or indirectly or not at all, they were complicit. that's still true if they have ptsd. that's still true if they signed up for the free college or because they were lied to. have they accepted that fact? have you? why are you so reluctant to let that color your image of them? i'm really not trying to be mean here. it just seems like many people in the notes aren't pushing back against the content of this post so much as the idea of having complicated feelings about their loved ones, which is, sorry, part of being an adult