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The press release sure seems like the Marines are warning their latest class of recruits that their family members could get kidnapped at their graduation ceremony.

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[-] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 59 points 2 days ago

can someone who is good at military tell me if this is good for morale?

[-] Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net 59 points 2 days ago
[-] SmithrunHills@hexbear.net 59 points 2 days ago

More importantly fuck everyone to our left and right who support this shit

Scum fucks acting like they weren't perfectly fine with all this when it was already happening to brown people and kept under wraps during Democrat presidencies. I hope Iran takes no prisoners

[-] Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net 35 points 2 days ago

100% I will be laughing my ass off at the inevitable scores of dead US soldiers if they try to take any of those Islands or funnier still do a land invasion of Iran mainland.

[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 13 points 2 days ago

The flood of sob stories is going to be so fucking annoying

[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 13 points 2 days ago

The sanctimonious films Hollywood will churn out will make the cultural output after 9/11 look tame

They're gonna give these marine massacres the same tempo as a 9/11 and school shooter movie

[-] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago

Summer 2027. Mark Wahlberg is Gunnery Sargent Horben "Boston" O'Dongfwulderssun. One family man defends an island against 144,000 persian cannibal terrorists to keep the fuel flowing so his 11 month old daughter can get a heart transplant back home, because without oil, American hospitals close.

Alone, outnumbered, outclassed, and oversexed, "Boston" fights off the worst of the worst and sacrifices himself while preserving the vital flow of resources for his family.

butter your popcorn for.... Khargistan: The Evil Army of Kharg Island

[-] BearerOfPickles@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago

Hollywood is just remake the US Grenada invasion movie Heartbreak Ridge, but also still cast Clint Eastwood somehow. Either that or pretend it never happened like the Korean War

[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 25 points 2 days ago

Like what does that even mean? Who to their left supports ICE? Is this a normie perceiving the corporate dems as "left"?

Also I wanted to point out how the fuckin r/military subreddit of all things is less right wing than 90% of the shithole Asmongold adjacent instances on lemmy

[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 23 points 2 days ago

Well, they're a US army veteran so odds are they weren't very bright to begin with.

But probably because they heard somewhere that Obama expanded ICE and deported more people than Bush, and Obama = left, therefore there must be ICE supporters on the left. Most generous train of thought I can come up with.

[-] larrikin99@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago

it's the lesser evil "I would personally slit the throat of a child if I knew with 100% certainty it would create 50,000 more Kamala votes in Michigan" types who are still living in the 2016 results, where margins were thin enough you could pretty much invent any kind of self-contradictory leftist you like, assume pretty confidently at least few thousand of them exist in each swing state, and blame the loss on them.

[-] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 2 days ago

tbf most human beings are to the left of the yankkkee einsatzgruppen

[-] Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net 20 points 2 days ago

Yeah it's just funny seeing some "centrist" boot referring to fascist lite Democrats as "the left".

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 69 points 2 days ago

When you really need the manpower for the war but your racist xenophobia gets in the way and you deport it all.

[-] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 53 points 2 days ago

dean-smile Service guarantees citizenship

dean-frown ... for you

[-] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 42 points 2 days ago

This war and ICE crackdown could actually cause the military (or parts of it) to start opposing the government and causing the country to balkanise, being treated as a secondary force to ICE would probably be enough for quite a few military types to want to stage a coup.

[-] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 2 days ago

Does court martial have juries?

[-] Tabitha@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago

and it would be the easiest coup to frame as preventing a coup

[-] JustSo@hexbear.net 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

You should "Always pay your guys" cuz they're gonna get paid regardless either by your enemy or them taking what they're owed out of you.

But if you take a guy's family hostage you don't even really need to pay him anymore to get him to do what you want.

These are oldschool strats we're dealing with.

[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 42 points 2 days ago

Their 30 pieces of silver for selling out their own family? Immediately dying in Iran.

[-] Trying2KnowMyself@hexbear.net 29 points 2 days ago
[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 30 points 2 days ago
[-] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 days ago

Damn. If you live near a military base, it's a good time to do some flyering.

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