American soldiers caught masturbating while the world pretends to be surprised.
#1
Posted 07 April 2010 - 03:11 AM
1. What a spectacular waste of money. To think there's "people" who want to give these idiots more money. The idiots being bureaucrats, both civilian and military.
2. This is much more awesome than the way the "insurgents" do it, which is just kidnapping a bunch of people and torturing them to death. Then again, I bet the pilots only have half the testicle mass of the insurgents. If that.
3. Holy shit, it's so realistic! The way their bodies drop and react to being hit by bullets. Not to mention how the duck behind cover. It's almost as realistic as GTA4.
4. You want a recruiting video? That's your recruiting video.
-Jimmy McTavern, 1938.
#3
Posted 07 April 2010 - 04:31 AM
Gobbler, on 07 April 2010 - 07:22 PM, said:
The inefficiency of military bureaucracy, how that bureaucracy only has the purpose of shitting out outdated equipment which can only be effectively used against other military bureaucracies and how said equipment and said bureaucracy has turned war into a videogame. Which it is, by the way. I mean blowing up a group of people in a city has no actually bearing on the war whatsoever, regardless of who those people are or which city they're in. It's not going to limit attacks because those attacks are being carried out by people not stupid enough to brag about their accomplishments and get pinpointed by a neighbour when the local government starts torturing people. It's really entertaining, though.
-Jimmy McTavern, 1938.
#4
Posted 07 April 2010 - 06:57 AM
And I don't know about that whole irrelevance thingy, seems to me like wars are pretty much about arbitrarily killing relevant people. More or less.
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#5
Posted 07 April 2010 - 08:54 AM
Gobbler, on 07 April 2010 - 09:57 PM, said:
I mean obsolete concepts for equipment. The entire military budget is spent on obsolete weapons like tanks, APCs, planes and helicopters. (All of them have been proven to be obsolete as a result of the extensive use of RPGs. Except planes. They're just inaccurate.) Apart from that you have scores of "retired" generals who are "advising" the military and get paid by arms manufactures to lobby for the purchases of these obsolete weapons.
Gobbler, on 07 April 2010 - 09:57 PM, said:
From a military standpoint, yeah. But it's also about subjugation. You can't just keep killing people. And don't think that subjugation is about winning "hearts and minds" either. The people America is fighting are basically gangbangers, rednecks and professional solders or the family members of gangbangers, rednecks and professional solders. At least that's what they are during peacetime. During wartime they're "war heroes."
This post has been edited by Deucaon: 07 April 2010 - 08:54 AM
-Jimmy McTavern, 1938.
#6
Posted 07 April 2010 - 01:53 PM
Also, tanks and so forth are not obsolete. Just because they have vulnerabilities does not make them obsolete.
And what differentiates between gangbangers, rednecks, and professional soldiers? Could one of those two groups become a professional soldier? Why or why not? And how does one become a professional soldier before joining the army then, if the army only recruits from those three groups?
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#7
Posted 26 December 2010 - 10:50 PM
-Jimmy McTavern, 1938.
#8
Posted 27 December 2010 - 04:06 AM
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#9
Posted 27 December 2010 - 06:06 AM
J m HofMarN, on 27 December 2010 - 07:06 PM, said:
It's sergeant or staff sergeant and I'm pretty sure you can be promoted in the field. In any case they join, as you've just claimed, for purely selfish reasons. On top of that they're willing to kill people in order to get a scholarship or because they're too lazy to move to a new town/city to find a job. How the fuck aren't they monsters?
-Jimmy McTavern, 1938.
#10
Posted 27 December 2010 - 11:21 PM
...How the fuck can someone with no job and funds just uproot to a new town or city where they know no one and have no job prospects? They'd end up homeless on the street. Do you even think of things before you type them?
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Posted 27 December 2010 - 11:35 PM
#12
Posted 28 December 2010 - 06:02 AM
J m HofMarN, on 28 December 2010 - 02:21 PM, said:
...How the fuck can someone with no job and funds just uproot to a new town or city where they know no one and have no job prospects? They'd end up homeless on the street. Do you even think of things before you type them?
(1) "Peacetime" American military bases all around the world have high crime rates. Apart from that, a good portion of females in the military are raped. I'm sure that most recruits in the military are abused. It's not a culture appealing towards people who aren't sick fucks. It's like prison. Even if you're proper going in, the likelihood that you'll be normal when you get out is slim. But also it's an institution designed to dehumanize people. Like all institutions, really.
(2) Because mass migrations have never happened in America ever. Right.
-Jimmy McTavern, 1938.
#13
Posted 28 December 2010 - 11:47 PM
2: The last mass migration in the US was during the great depression. Steinbeck wrote about how people were treated during that time, but then, you don't much favor all them fancy book learnins.
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#14
Posted 29 December 2010 - 02:02 AM
-Jimmy McTavern, 1938.
#15
Posted 29 December 2010 - 03:00 AM
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