What does gas have to do with this?

It's in the name of one of my favorite songs?

I mean

gas is basically the solution to most things now

it's replacing bullets

Rags is on a gas mask vs Beard stint

Another argument is the quite often the comparison of the Confederacy and Confederate veterans and Confederate Leaders to Nazis or any type of dictatorship. This is misleading because the South was not a dictatorship nor an ideological movement, but a regional, political movement that came about due to a fundamental disagreement with the Federal Government over how the institution of slavery should be handled. In other words, Confederates are not equivalent to Nazis. They are more closely related to something like the IRA or the Scottish Independence movement under William Wallace rather than an ideological movement like the Nazi regime or the Soviet Union.

He believes that the Army not allowing beards is a conspiracy when he has experience with people using masks and beards.

But there is more to it than cs gas

Also, no one cares about beards right now.

Rags does

And you posted the article that started it so apparently you care a little.

I posted the article that was made into a meme for people to read.

@Deleted User Hard pill to swallow:
Sometimes the big green weenie is right
No beards and gas masks
FIGHT ME

But, anyways, those are two arguments I hear quite often. There’s a good number of other arguments, which, when applied any level of scrutiny, simply fall apart.

Thing is though, a mask creating a better seal against bare skin is common sense.

It might be "good enough" with a beard but is that really something you would accept in a CBRNE environment?

Like what would create a better seal suction cup on glass or carpet?

Another argument I hear all the time from the groups who want the monuments removed is the old "you lost, get over it" and or the variation that goes "the statues are just participation trophies."

The problem with this general line of argument is that it can be applied to other conflicts and be just as valid. You can argue that we should remove the Vietnam War Memorial because the US lost and that it's just a "participation trophy." Similarly, you could argue the Scottish should remove statues of William Wallace because he lost and they should "get over it." Same thing with a statue of Boudica in England, same thing with monuments to German dead of the Great War, and the same argument can be applied to any and all monuments or memorials, meaning that all of them can be removed because they are honoring the "losing side."

US won Vietnam my dude

No, we didn't.

They surrendered

After we left

The dems refused to support the south

And it got taken

Basically Vietnam 2 happened and we never showed up

Or even lent support

It was fought to a truce. No one actually won the war until, of course, the North Vietnamese initiated their attack and crushed the South Vietnamese.

So, it was a defeat.

We werent even there

So no its not

Whereas Korea is... or was... "ongiong" since the 1950's until it was officially ended under Trump's Administration.

Its like saying we lost desert storm

Did we actually end korea?

I never saw that

Yeah. Kim Jong Un signed the papers or whatever.

In any case they are tearing down the civil war memorials to make room for the Civil war 2 memorials

It was memed all over the place when it happened.

I guess it went over my head

So that we can Robert E. Lee 2: Rebel Yell Boogaloo.

Probably 🤷🏼‍♂️