Same energy as "we lost 4500 people in a senseless war in Iraq" when the Iraqi civilian death toll is incalculable, like actually cannot be calculated

"Giving illegal orders is bad because our boys could get in trouble" sorry, no, war crimes are wrong, inherently, because of what they do to the victims, not the perpetrators

Americans are so weird about the troops and it drives me nuts

Angry trans leftists who just hate everyone don't jeer when Pritzker or Walz say the same thing, I wonder why that is

Imagine being trans and transitioning into that guy, could not ever be me

Legal Eagle's video on this spends some time talking to Mark Kelly about the "moral injury" our boys may have suffered, and.

I think their feeling bad is both fully appropriate and the only consequence they'll ever see.

I kept this in "the drafts" for two days trying to improve on "Barnum-Meinhof". I was sure I could find another name, but English just doesn't have words that sound like Meinhof

I guess there's no reason they would know about him, it's just surprising because he's so well known here. It'd be like an American not knowing who Branston Pickle is

Second, because they're likely to think you're wasting your hard-earned freedom, a vital and limited resource they worked hard to get for you. "Freedom isn't free", so don't use it all for yourself.

Lastly, and because of the first two, they will absolutely shoot you for literally no reason.