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Found a reddit post from Platner describing his unit in Iraq being ordered to stop using mortars in high density urban areas.

He devised a method to use mk19 grenade launchers to evade detection by command. "It wasn't the most accurate system" he says, but he still used it.

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[-] VHS@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

Sad footnote, Will Morrow survived Ramadi but was shot in the back of the head and killed by his ex-wife years later

What can you say but that justice was served?

[-] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

I hope she gave a cool one liner like, "You're the disease and I'm....the Ramadi" stalin-gun-1

[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

It’s called the death penalty sweaty, that’s what you get when you commit war crimes

[-] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

Ex-wife of that war criminal join Hexbear! we-fucked-up

[-] ikilledtheradiostar@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Mk19s are fully automatic 40mm grenade launchers who's ammo fails about 10% of the time. A dud 40mm grenade looks like a shiny gold egg and can explode if picked up. Hope this guy gets shot in the neck..

[-] LadyCajAsca@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

Imagine disobeying orders, not to save civilian's lives, no no, but to make civilian's lives worse.. damn.

[-] Monk3brain3@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

what-the-hell

Just how bad is it going to get with this Nazi psychopath before the "electoral left's" movers and shakers admit that they are a bunch of fucking morons for backing this guy or just plain full of shit

[-] Lussy@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

Bernie came out and congratulated Trump on immigration, so…don’t hold your breath

[-] ConcreteHalloween@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

I initially misread this and thought it said he disobeyed and order TO kill more civilians and was like "oh, okay may he's not a total fash".

But nah, keep seeing more and more confirmation this guy is just a Nazi freak trying to run as a progressive for some reason.

[-] Huldra@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

They need to give this guy the Vlad the Impaler treatment.

[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

He could’ve personally murdered a million Iraqi children with his bare hands and radlibs wouldn’t give a fuck

[-] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

That's just called "being presidential".

[-] Carl@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

Guy's gonna get elected with the Bernie nod and turn into Fetterman 2.0.

[-] D61@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

me risking karmic retribution thinking

"Stroke! Stroke! Stroke! Stroke!"

[-] RedWizard@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

I fucking hope so. Just to see people like Hasan writhe under the weight of their support for him before hand. Fetterman should have been a lesson. We should all support planters! Like a rope supports a hanged man.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

how did they find his reddit account?

[-] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

No idea, but it is his. It has been in several actual publications (Jacobin came to his defense, lol).

[-] mistermodal@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

Im starting to think he knew that wasnt the jolly rodger

[-] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This guy being in the news has been the best thing ever. Every day it's something new. It's the perfect blend of crayon chewer fascism and completely absent political and social instincts.

[-] mistermodal@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

Bhaskar Sunkara haters never go hungry in fact we are at risk of several serious dietary conditions

[-] miz@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

more like Yakubin

[-] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago

Trying to imagine what it's like to be this variety of war criminal. What happens when you and your fellow colored wax pencil enthusiasts blow up a civilian? You just look at each other, shrug, and say "let's try to aim better next time"? What kind of person is even able to live with themselves when doing this, let alone seek out loopholes to continue doing it against orders?

[-] Kefla@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

What happens when you and your fellow colored wax pencil enthusiasts blow up a civilian? You just look at each other, shrug, and say "let's try to aim better next time"?

You're not familiar with just how evil these people are, I guess. The reaction is more like

"FUCK yeah bro, look at the way that slur splattered! Nice shot! We should head for that elementary school next!"

[-] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

Starting to think the troops are bad. thinking-about-it

[-] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

There's that famous video of British troops literally beating up Iraqi schoolchildren on their way back home while their (the soldiers obviously) compatriots cheer in the distance.

These people are reminders that no, not everyone understands the world in the view that they're the good guys; some people just see the world as 'I'm superior and they're inferior, and that makes it okay to do what I want with them'.

[-] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago

Look in the replies for a bonus crayon chewer defending this.

[-] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

There's one person defending this as a valid tactic, and another who says he hates Platner for being a communist nazi but loves his ingenuity in going after the enemy.

These 'people' are just real life orcs and goblins

[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah I guess these are the guys the Dems are trying to appeal to nowadays?

[-] sleeplessone@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

When someone is trying to kill you, you get every opportunity to kill them back.

I agree: the Iraqis and Afghanis were 100% justified in killing burger troopers. If the burger troopers didn't want to be killed, they shouldn't have invaded.

[-] moss_icon@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

“communist nazi”

The American education system

[-] Carl@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

shitbird

oh shit is platner a hexbear?

[-] miz@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

I remember Leahy using this term several times on Trailer Park Boys

[-] Civility@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Reading this actually made me dizzy with how evil it is, I'm normally empathetic to a fault but watching this person be eaten alive by centipedes would make me feel nothing

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