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What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?

— Only the monstrous anger of the guns.

Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle

Can patter out their hasty orisons...

-- Wilfred Owen

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[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

We are all just feeding the rage machine right now. An entire class of people who just say snarky know-it-all things with no skillset making bank out of their ability to troll.

[-] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 year ago

What's wrong with being poetic about your job? One would think it can possibly give you an edge of the true samurai kind?.. Something rather good for a military?

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

Tommy tubberville, Worst. Superhero. Ever. He will come up with stupid fantasies about how everyone will kill you unless you give your money to the rich.

[-] Pratai@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

… says the guy that belongs to a party that fears the freedom of love, and…. books.

The world has not ever known a cowardice of the level that conservatism has currently reached.

[-] cultsuperstar@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

Toxic masculinity.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 8 points 1 year ago

Oh when I came back fronm Luang Prabang,

I didn't have a thing where my balls used to hang,

But I got a wooden medal and a fine harangue,

Now I'm fuckin' hero.

Mourn your dead, land of the free,

If you wanna be a hero follow me,

Mourn your dead, land of the free,

If you wanna be a hero follow me.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

They want to take on China while running away from supporting Ukraine against Russia. The cognitive dissonance is unreal.

[-] Roundcat@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

What if I presented my poem as a football field prayer?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

"ANY FOOTBALL PLAYER WHO WRITES A POEM IS A GOLDARN FAIRY!"

-- Tuberville, probably

[-] Taako_Tuesday@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting done by fools" --~~Thucydides~~ Sir William Francis Butler

Tommy should be happy they're writing poetry on aircraft carriers.

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[-] Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Tommy Tuberville is the kind of cunt that would imply that strong people can't feel. Give me the poetic military members that will contemplate their actions, please.

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[-] Artinizal@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago
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