Shut up and get in the meat grinder
Shut up and get in the meat grinder
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I know this is just a meme post but I was watching an interview with his wife and the sheer terminally online/disconnected from reality of it all was a bit disturbing to me. Like you are dumb-as-rocks enough to believe you are going to go over there with your family and be treated like Seagal or something? I wanted to schadenfreude but I couldn't, the level of stupidity was actually offensive to me.
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What I don't get is, so much of what is online is designed to make you angry and scared because that captures the most engagement. Are people just comfortable feeling that way? It seems way more stressful than living a mostly offline life and enjoying conversations with real people. I don't understand why people do it to themselves.
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I think for older folks at least it has to do with the chemicals they were exposed to. I’ve met countless men in their 50s who really are just angry all the time and permanently on a hair trigger. Then they fondly talk about the good old days when trucks would gas their blocks with pesticides and they’d chase after them as kids. You also can’t discount the amount lead they were exposed to which is known to make people more aggressive.
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Anger's the only passion they get to experience
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Five years ago, I saw other passengers on a flight turn on the in-flight entertainment screen and immediately bee-line straight to Fox News. For the entire 4 hour flight. And not just one person either. They could have had their pick of all kinds of blockbuster movies and critically-acclaimed TV shows on there, but they preferred to just plug into the hivemind instead.
I can't even imagine watching any news, propaganda or otherwise, for that long. It was completely unnerving to witness.
So, yes. People really are addicted to the rage bait. Probably more now than back then. And like an addiction it's fucking their whole lives up, and getting out is not really a consideration.
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Are people just comfortable feeling that way?
People who complain about woke and social justice warriors feels like...they are social justice warriors and woke by having a social cause to be outraged for.
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There's quite a common trope both in fiction and in world history (in the sense of survivor-bias reported history) of the White man travelling to a foreign land and becoming more important and successful there than they ever were back home. Captain Cook being treated as a literal God in Hawai'i. John Blackthorne becoming Daimyo of Kanagawa. Sideshow Bob becoming mayor of an Italian town. So, it's not unusual for privileged fucknuts to move to shithole countries thinking they'll get the celebrity lifestyle.
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Someone they might consider wise once said, "Stupid is as stupid does."
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dumb as those canandian farmers that moved to russia for the same reasons.
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Oh, Russia didn't treat you, an immigrant, fairly? How awful.
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Seems like they treated him exactly as fairly as their native population...
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True. So I guess if they were treating him the way he probably wants America to treat immigrants they'd have just deported or gulagged him.
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Well, but they did it the right way.
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Good thing OP can appeal his human rights in court
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He’s dead according to a post I saw today: https://defenseofliberty.social/@MalcolmNance/114908783699392930
I feel bad for their children who likely had no say in moving to Russia. Bet they wish they were back home in the USA with Dad now. Too late.
Oh well… moving on.
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Seems to be fake, it's just one random source and the wife is saying he's alive (for now).
Anyway, moving on.
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Oh… I didn’t care to check it as I thought it was worth a laugh.
Anyways, I hope your day is fabulous, random internet citizen!
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Well, she can't say controversial anymore while she is there
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He died for the dictator he loved. May his daughters find their way home again.
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They also made him pay for his own gear once he arrived. Much Russia, very magnificent.
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Tbf it is Russian tradition.
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But I thought Russia were the good guys in this fight?/s
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The Russian officer should be saying ....
"атакуй гребаное пулеметное гнездо!"
Classic right wing nut jobs always believe the entire world should speak their language, no matter what that language is.
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This dude was actually surprised that they disqualified him from non combat training because he didn’t speak Russian and it was only offered in… wait for it…. RUSSIAN. How dare.
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"why ain't these russians speakin american?"
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Russians (speaking in Russian of course): “why ain’t these americans speakin russian?”
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Isn't the narrative about new recruits getting tricked to enlisting on the basis of a lie that they will be put in a noncombat role something that we in the U.S. can relate to, too? I remember in high school and college people would talk about the recruiters that would say anything to get people to join.
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"Yeah man you'll just be driving trucks around..."
9/11 happens
"In IED land."
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There weren't actually that many casualties to US troops, because they made mercenaries do the dangerous stuff and didn't track how many people died.
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I was a recruiter for a while. I was able to promise a noncombat role, as in job. I could guarantee you a job as a comm bubba, motor T, cook, supply admin, or whatever else you qualify for, no problem (as long as there are open slots).
The fine print that people wouldn't tell you is we can't guarantee what unit you will be assigned to after training. You won't be trained to be a grunt but you could very easily get orders to and stationed with an infantry unit. They need noncombat jobs working in those combat units too. You would still get deployed to hostile places with your unit.
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Sending the stupidest to take the first hit makes sense, in a psychotic sort of way.
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He is fighting for what he believes. Now he gets to realize the sheer amount of people who want something different and how well equipped they are. No tankie can argue that.
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According to Denys Davydov (a former pilot, Ukrainian youtuber following the war) said there is yet no evidence he's been killed, no photos or videos, his family hasn't said anything etc.
So not just yet I guess 😇
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Sounds like DEI to me.
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Well he got what he wanted
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No he wanted young men to go die instead!
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He looks like the Wagner guy
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as a human shield, which is also non-combat.
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Dude if Russia is using 46 year olds on the front line, how many prisoners have they already churned through?
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russophobia
links russian propaganda
hahahah
Lost tankies are cute.
Now go back to the front and absorb some drone strikes for your comrades.
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Hating a government =/= hating it's people, calling me russophobic for being against the russian invasion of Ukraine is like calling someone antisemitic for being against what the Israeli state is doing to Palestinians. I hope this clears this up. Also, you're calling me pro empire while defending Russian imperialism lol. Imperialism in general is bad, doesn't matter who does it.
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How does Derek become Elijah? Meme says one name and the interview linked uses a different one, almost like two different people.
Edit spelling of name
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So I guess he aged 21 years in the time he was there? Interviewee says he is 25, the guy from OP is 46...
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I guess the truth got filtered out with the "pro-empire" propaganda
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It's almost like a website that has the .ru suffix might be... LYING, could it be??
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Wowzers! So this is what goes on in the worlder meme comm, just spreading blatent pro-empire propaganda
Here's some totally objective information from pravda.ru
Do you have a level of awareness that you're peddling hot garbage, but are fulfilling obligations nonetheless, or do you actually consume that hot garbage?
Edit: To be clear, I legitimately believe that there's absolutely no way that you're upholding a sincerely held belief. Like someone doing the Flat Earther schtick for lulz.
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Fuck Russia
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Very constructive! 😁
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That's not the same person.
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I blocked.ml months ago. Go peddle your crap elsewhere.
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Got it, you would prefer to close your mind to anything the empire declares as bad 🙄
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"the actual interview"?
Most of everything that has been said and discussed in this topic comes actually right out of this guy's and his wife's mouths lol. Here is a shortened version (if you don't like telegraph -not a big fan myself- then just watch the parts where he or his wife is talking, don't bother me with how western media bla)
They literally have a youtube channel where the wife says he feels like he has been tricked and that he was actually made to pay for this own gear when going to the frontlines. Yea, I know, pathetic.
And instead of listening to the words that come literally out of this guy's and his wife's mouths, you put a random interview with a different person, call it "the interview" and blame people of empire propaganda when they call you out on it? Have you read this fucking joke of an interview that you linked? It is reeking of "lets say a bunch of nice stuff about Russia but make it seem like someone else said it anonymously" lol. Truly sad and pathetic. Please don't go around putting memes about how you are a true enlightened leftist and everyone else is just a lemmy liberal labeling you as a tankie, lol.
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