...way of making you seem? bigger than you are?
It seems like everyone comes on YA and become a gun-wielding patriot, superman, Navy Seal, Army Ranger, and everything in between.
If you have something honest, correct, and insightful to say, it will stand on its own. Adding a label of "terrorist killing patriot" "super white man samurai" doesn't impress me...does it impress anyone?
George W. Bush was a veteran, and look at the mess he caused in two countries.
Being a vet (real or imaginary) doesn't give you any special credentials on foreign policy. Maybe it makes some people mad that non-vets have a voice in politics, but America is still a democracy- cons haven't killed it yet.
My father, three uncles, and my grandfather all served in the military, but they never bragged about it like the people on here- it was just part of life and what they had to do when the times called.
There's a very real difference between "serving your country" and making a fetish out of the military and yourself, as if you are the biggest, baddest, thug cuz you were in the service. Many guys in the military aren't that big or bad anyway- witness all the PTSD and other emotional problems suffered by soldiers.
What do you think? Are the military and war avatars and labes overused on here?
I mean "labels," not labes (misspelling).
It seems like everyone comes on YA and become a gun-wielding patriot, superman, Navy Seal, Army Ranger, and everything in between.
If you have something honest, correct, and insightful to say, it will stand on its own. Adding a label of "terrorist killing patriot" "super white man samurai" doesn't impress me...does it impress anyone?
George W. Bush was a veteran, and look at the mess he caused in two countries.
Being a vet (real or imaginary) doesn't give you any special credentials on foreign policy. Maybe it makes some people mad that non-vets have a voice in politics, but America is still a democracy- cons haven't killed it yet.
My father, three uncles, and my grandfather all served in the military, but they never bragged about it like the people on here- it was just part of life and what they had to do when the times called.
There's a very real difference between "serving your country" and making a fetish out of the military and yourself, as if you are the biggest, baddest, thug cuz you were in the service. Many guys in the military aren't that big or bad anyway- witness all the PTSD and other emotional problems suffered by soldiers.
What do you think? Are the military and war avatars and labes overused on here?
I mean "labels," not labes (misspelling).