Message from @Tato
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I mean I appreciate and would appropriate such iconography but a whole nation seeing that as okay is just
I don’t know
Not ideal for public image being seen as bringers of death but the Prussians and now US marines love it
Anything for morale.
It’s less of a duty to protect and instead being a supernatural instrument to exact punishment
So long as they're gung ho to act, that's all that matters.
I guess
Tfw no rwds
I'm of the mind that the soldiers were cynical about it though.
They’re so aesthetic it hurts
You saw generation kill.
Yee
It's all posturing.
I compare it more to FMJ
Or in some perhaps earlier cases, the choices of Prussian aristocracy.
The brainwashing of the grunt
All of the most memorable parts of FMJ are in that boot camp.
The thing about militaries and what it does to people is that it's very difficult to achieve ideal goals and make changes without the use of force.
There was the hooker part
And when it comes to using force, you really can't be fuckin around with it.
There is a such thing as overkill tho
So you are forced into positions like the Catalonians were.
Where they weren't drilling people and people were deserting all the time.
And then they had to ask for help, but got rekt by Franco and the Falangists anyways.
The Soviets weren't of much help either.
Tryna subvert them and stuff.
Messy stuff the Republicans were.
I thought they lost cus muh soviet traitors and superior airpower of the right
I've been doing some research and that's what I read in an article by Chris Day.
So if you want to achieve anything idealistic, you have to be willing to meet your enemies with the same force or more powerful force.
Difficult to do when you preach freedom and you're facing authoritarian regimes willing to go to more radical lengths than you are.
Americans in 1776 had it pretty easy by comparison.
My pencils are SO NICE
This Camel
It's so quality
The point retention is higher than the tombow I can tell already
btw hey tato it's been a while