Wish I could show this to the guy on Mastodonwho was defending them, that "we don't what was in their heart when they joined", because after I replied "No no wait, if they joined now, they absolutely know what's going on" he blocked me. 🤷

The meme isn't wrong but "westoid"? Only the terminally online could have dreamed up a term like that.

Westoid? Are you one of those Lemmings who sound like bots that randomly go on an irrational tirade against the entire West whenever 'Murica does some shit but you still blame it on everyone else?

I assume we also blame Chinese citizens for everything the CCP does too or does that only apply to western nations.

Does it even apply for all western nations? What about Norway?

Former Marine here. This illustrates the prevailing excuse endemic to the whole imperialist war machine. Every bloody cog has some way of passing blame up the chain. I fixed electronics so I never had to personally pull a trigger but the electronics I fixed helped fix aircraft whose pilots and aircrew were responsible for atrocities I can only imagine. I used to rationalize that this separation erased my culpability but now I understand it actually enhanced it. At the level of maintenance I was at a broken twidgit tip unaccounted for could ground an entire air wing for several days.

If you have made the massive mistake of joining the military please use your power of being a rusty cog. Report every chip on every tool to maintenance control, send every piece of gear missing a screw or emp braiding in for parts/DRMO don't run to the hardware store for a quick replacement, CDI time is valuable and limited so make sure to never skip a CDI verification step and ask for their opinion on every anomalous reading, if you drop a torque wrench or break a cal seal ground that gear and send it back to the shop, take your time and verify every measurement, don't gundeck MAFs, and follow all procedures to the letter. Don't be afraid to involve maintenance control to make sure your shop is fully compliant and not taking shortcuts. If you had just sat on your rack and refused to work you would just get replaced, now you have weaponized the regulations and bureaucracy in a way that covers your ass for the rest of your enlistment while crippling the whole air wing. You can now get out and try to make amends for the catastrophic damage you have done to the world. However if you reenlist fucking die in a fire.

I regret every day that I joined and wish I was aware of the evil the system I was a part of was perpetrating. The few times I talk about my time in the Marines in the last few years is to warn people about how fucked up it is, how they brainwash and strip the individuality from recruits, and most importantly the reality of what the US Military does to innocent people all over the world and the environment.

The capitalist version of the Nuremberg excuse... "We all have a mortgage to pay"

Westoid? Average?... so like, millions if not billions of people, all believe this to be a just argument?

We both know this is where your argument falls apart but damn it must be cathartic to post it knowing some idiot "westoid" will try to prove their virtue to you.

How is this "westoid" logic? As if no other country does this kind of bullshit.

We only have a chance at peace when ALL soldiers refuse to invade foreign lands.

Just following orders

The point of the Latuff cartoon is valid, I just really dislike the smell of the word "westoid".

"Our Glorious Eastern Soldiers"

"Their heathen rapist genocidal evil brutish westoids"

The message is good, the title is needlessly inflammatory, as if ANY major country has clean hands.

"I was just following orders" is what all the Nazis said.