The drooling Pavlovian reaction people have to manipulative pageantry around dead soldiers is disturbing as fuck @mattyglesias
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(insert funeral scene from Starship Troopers here)
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(and insert cricket noise here) and act
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There's something specifically sick here - a sick seed that got planted when the media first got high on "Support Our Troops" rhetoric
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This is the full flower of the shaming that started over lurid stories of antiwar protesters spitting on vets that created that culture
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Lines up with the people saying Trump is the Pres who "finally" respects the military after 8 years of Obama.
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Now we have a guy who doesn't salute with his coffee! Whee
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