But yeah you can look at McCain, you can look at the Khans (those gold star parents), you can look at repeated appeals to all the appeals to the veteran or even active duty status of victims of racist police violence Conservatives absolutely do not give a fuck. Whatsoever
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And honestly the only reason conservatives harp on the "disrespecting our troops" canard is because the people who REALLY respond to it are liberals/left-of-center moderates, THEY'RE the ones consistently offended by rudeness to the troops, to the point of exploitability
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The people who really get mad are the Clymers and Buttigiegs of the world. The only "show of disrespect for the troops" conservatives care about is the "disrespectful act" of being a service member who isn't a bible-thumping cishet white dude
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I think about this Onion piece a lot:https://politics.theonion.com/i-support-the-occupation-of-iraq-but-i-dont-support-ou-1819584160 …
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This is one of those really good pieces you don't see them do much anymore, where they don't go for the overt punchline and instead very earnestly and sincerely just write out what a lot of people clearly think but don't say
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Like there's plenty of times and places where this would have been a completely uncontroversial patriotic sentimentpic.twitter.com/c7xYFBjw8o
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I was about to type out a whole thing about how ancient China balanced its belief that military victory was the greatest glory a state could have and that actual soldiers were the dregs of society to be kept away from your daughters if at all possible
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But I'm like, that's not foreign That's completely normal Americans used to openly express that sentiment all the time and they mostly still think it and just don't say it
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It's about the only explanation for why any and all actual support ends the instant you're discharged.
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It's not even a logical contradiction, they like the war machine itself, they like the power it wields, and the more efficiently it can chew up the human beings it uses for fuel the more powerful it is
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Like how fans of railroads and factories and shit were also fans of the horrific exploitation of the human beings who built and worked in those institutions
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One of my favourite Terry Pratchett quotes: "It is a long-cherished tradition among a certain type of military thinker that huge casualties are the main thing. If they are on the other side then this is a valuable bonus."
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