So, HFM, have you done anything in your life aside from trying to bury history? I mean, at least El Ocho Cinco completed a law degree and is handy at trading. I give Boog a lot of shit but he seems to me to be an accomplished man. They both offend me occasionally but nothing irreparable. I could drink a beer with either of them. You, however, seem somewhat more transitory. A bit sketchy. Veracity issues... Lack of boundaries. I'm not sure about you.
So he never saw any combat, has his little fantasies about the glory of it all in the good ole days. Expert marksmanship on the range. Woohoo.. 620,000 soldiers, uncounted civilians and Snarkhund wants to recognise the losers with participation statues. These statues were erected as orchistrated revisionist propoganda a hundred years ago, nothing more than hundred year old bullshit.
No combat, I was 500 miles away eating hot food and sleeping on a cot. Never claimed to be a combat veteran. Mentioned that I had no campaign pin. I was a wrench. I've always been clear about that. I see that it upsets you folks when you run into somebody who did anything. I don't understand that but I suppose its natural. You can't diminish it and evidently you can't match it. So all that is left is hurling poo poo. Fine lol. And you guys are way wrong about Confederate statues. Who is going to vote for the Party of Cultural Erasure? You're going to have to get rid of that whole pesky election thing.
As a centrist: Confederate statues: Sure, tear them down. If they were erected during Jim Crow and civil rights movements with the sole purpose to trigger people seeking their rightful place, why the fuck are our black brothers and sister paying taxes for upkeep? Were they put up contemporaneously following a battle to commemorate the inhabitant's fallen? We'll need to have a conversation about it first. Confederate flags: see above Destruction of private property: Don't condone it but understand it. If peaceful protests fall on deaf ears and the bargaining power of the people through legislation has been sold to the highest corporate bidder, you end up with a "let them eat cake" situation. Occupy Chaz: Just Occupy wall st. 2.0. We'll laugh at it and move on in a few weeks. Wanton destruction of history: This I got problem with. Your 1st amendment that allows you to congregate and yell at inanimate objects is granted by a document written by slave owners. As is your right to private property, land owning, due process, voting, etc.... So if the beef is that the anthem was written by a slave owner, we'll be tearing down the pyramids. If every other democracy that followed ours is the result of ideas first proposed & implemented by slave owners & their ideas are to be invalidated, we'll revert to Somalia in no time. Following the successful manipulation of the mob to congregate by Putin's troll farms (through facebook groups), & the targeted efforts of Cambridge Analytica by the GOP, these anarchists have now entered useful idiot territory and are just helping Trump at this point, and one should really be making careful examination of who's spurring it all.
Oh look. A rational post. Shocked! Shocked I say! Some of you don't know why statues are erected in the first place. You are unequipped to know.
Pffft, this place is littered with my rational thoughts and were attacked as leftist delusions. Now that the real leftists have arrived, they seem rational to righties in hindsight.
So you never did anything and never risked anything as you say. You and Scataphagos should start a club for guys who want bad boy credit for office work. You took a salary for work and willingly facilitated killing so you are going to hell just FYI, don't let anyone tell you you have not lost anything. I scratched my itch to be a young buck hardcase in a different way so I was not going to be ordered to do something abhorrent and spend my life wondering if just following an order was my destruction. I have done more than enough to know its just shit, when your are killing to literally save an innocent life you probably have forgiveness but harming someone who is an unwilling participant, for your lifestyle choices? Would the south have survived? Yep, just the economics were becoming less favourable for some. Hmmm.. But I'm thinky like that. Anyways the many of the statues are propoganda, a taunt, I can't feel anything for them. Case by case basis but most can go.
Wholesale vandalism. Plain and simple. I don't blame law enforcement one bit for allowing it to occur and not making a shred of effort to stop it. They are not interested in getting themselves fired or put in jail. Have fun.