cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/post/1309422
Americans looking at the Nazis: I'll never be as good as the old masters.
Nazis looking at Americans: I'll never be as good as the old masters.
From Wikipedia
A number of the citations on the medals awarded to the troopers at Wounded Knee state that they went in pursuit of Lakota who were trying to escape or hide. Another citation was for "conspicuous bravery in rounding up and bringing to the skirmish line a stampeded pack mule." Another medal was awarded in part for extending an enlistment. One citation was just "bravery".
It is very clear what message Hegsheth wants to send here, and it is not that catching a pack mule is "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of life above and beyond the call of duty." The massacre at wounded knee is one of the darkest chapters of our history.
Secretary of War: "This decision is final (hic)"
That's not how republics work, you're not the "final decider".
Hegseth isn't gonna like his place in history.
I want so badly to believe in religion because it would give me peace that monsters like him will get what they deserve. Stupid autistic brain won't let me without sufficient evidence.
It's actually well documented that part of the appeal of religion is the psychological need for justice when it's so clearly absent in the real world. It's probably part of the reason Christianity spun off from Judaism when it became clear that the Jews weren't going to get any sort of justice or revenge for their oppression by the Roman Empire. Christianity has a greater emphasis on the afterlife and otherworldly justice than Judaism does. Prior to that, the Hebrews were doing fairly well with their own kingdoms and a focus on prosperity in life rather than waiting for the afterlife was working out pretty well.
Sorry for the tangent, I just think it's really interesting.
Meanwhile the portrait of U.S. military's first Black four-star general, Daniel "Chappie" James Jr., was taken down from the Air Force Art Gallery at the Pentagon. You know someone who actually deserves recognition. I guess his place in history was not settled.
We can all agree it's immoral, but it's also just plain stupidity.
Even if you are white supremacist "kill all people of color", you still need a professional military that's not wasting time massacring civilians and creating PR disasters daily, if you hope to win any wars at all.
Also "their place in history is settled": sorry to ruin your day but that's not how collective processing of historical trauma works, nor history as a science.
I mean... Their place I history was already settled. They are war crime committing, baby killing, psychopaths who are the rare exception for "abolish the death penalty".
This decision is final. Their place in history is settled.
I find those last 2 sentences amusing and puzzling. It is like he thinks he is the decider of what society at large is going to care about at any given moment. That level of ego must hurt your neck to carry around everyday.
This decision is final. Their place in history is settled.
You are not a historian and also do not get to decide what happens in the future 💖
And he's lost every engagement he's been in, and history gets written by the victors.
Isn't opening fire on civilians like the most american thing ever? They open fire on protesting workers, on children in schools etc.
You get what you voted for America...
Trust me, I've never gotten what I voted for once. The majority of Americans havent gotten what they voted for. Of those that voted 60% didnt vote for this. And the majority of the population continued the trend of not voting.
I dont know how to fix it. You would think in a country built on the idea of keeping your guns so you can fight the government, that we would see more physical pushback.
I just dont want to live on this planet anymore.
What a disappointment the human race turned out to be.
Yep
As individuals, there are plenty of good 'Muricans
But there are a huge number of utter cunts, and their society is absolutely abhorrent
This is how I feel about our species as a whole.
Sure there are good individuals, but the world we've created for ourselves to live in as a species is basically a torment nexus. And it's entierly run and being supported by the worst of us, which kinda just ends up just being guilt by association because we can't escape the system we're in so defacto have to support it.
Upon managing to access the presidential bunker, the "march on D.C." group were unsurprised to find that the first lady and chief of war had taken their own lives, what they were surprised to discover was the commander and chief had chosen not to, but instead empty his entire clip into the already deceased secretary of war at close range.
Well yeah, he is a Nazi so that tracks
This decision is final.
If it was that easy for him to do this it will be just as easy for the next Secretary of Defense to reverse it, but the fact that he feels the need to say this and must recognize on some level that a vast majority of people at this point hate their guts and can't wait to undo every last thing they've done is gratifying
Hegseth drinks his own piss
Well, yeah, he doesn't want any of that booze to go to waste
I wish American liberals weren't such pansies. They are half the country if not more, it really wouldn't be that difficult to shut down the country in a big enough uprising.
I think people are counting on midterms going their way. If it helps the left has been more effective at violence so far when it does happen.
And me personally would end up homeless if I miss more then one paycheck.
Quite the "warrior" ethos, this Hegseth has. I want him to try this in person and see how well it holds up when someone fights back.
I can't wait for this guy to be Karma's bitch.
I wish karma was real but unfortunately we live in the world where pieces of shit just get away with everything.
So the satire from BioShock: Infinite has become reality.
Man, that game started out as such a good examination and denouncing of manifest destiny white supremacist bullshit with so many good little historical details, but then 3/4 of the way through the story
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some idiot on the writing team was like "Ooh, the black people resisting fascist bullshit seem uncomplicatedly good, we better have their leader murder an innocent child for no reason so the white main character can wisely say there are problems on both sides"
which was just some real cowardly bullshit
Bioshock 1: Let's explore and denounce this bullshit set of ideas
Bioshock 2: Actually, both sides.
Bioshock Infinite: Let's explore and deno- just kidding it's both sides again
Judas, according to Ken Levine:
He's one sick drunk racist neo-Nazi bastard.
Yeah, the US is run by Nazis so this tracks
findagrave.com
Anyone have a backhoe and a trailer? Lots of Confederate trash lying around in the dirt that we could clean up too.
It has been every administration's decision since wounded knee, or they wouldn't have medals to take.
I mean yeah, they're fucking Nazis. If there weren't cameras and the internet they'd be putting people into gas chambers.
I mean, I would not be surprised if we learned they had already started mass murdering the people ICE abducts.
Can't wait for the design of the My Lai Valor Medal
I was going to make a joke about Hugh Thompson (the helicopter pilot that ended the massacre) being called a woke commie but he was heavily criticized at the time and wasn't even given a medal for his actions until 30 goddamn years later so...
The comment about a Nazi regime is accurate-Hitler argued no one would care about the holocaust because no one cared about what the US did to native Americans.
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