• context [fae/faer, fae/faer]@hexbear.net
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    2 days ago

    remember when the u.s. navy shot down an iranian passenger aircraft when he was president, killing over 100 civilians, and his response was “i’m not an apologize-for-america kind of guy”?

    i remember

    • FlakesBongler [they/them]@hexbear.net
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      2 days ago

      Same

      The tv at the gym was on CNN again, they were interviewing troops on one of the ships out there and they were all laughing and eating ice cream sundaes

      Got me so worked up I broke my record on the elliptical by a fairly substantial margin

      • VILenin [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        How long ago was it that the troops were whining and moaning about how the chocolate chip cookies or whatever the fuck ran out? Forget about an actual war, the second the AC breaks they’ll be killing each other for a chance to flee home