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    3 months ago

    I recommend everyone watch Generation Kill. It’s inspired by true events, and it’s reasonably accurate as it’s following a unit with an embedded reporter. Sometimes shit just happens. Sometimes that shit is avoidable and sometimes it’s just an accident and unavoidable and they did everything right. Sometimes people just want to do bad shit because they’re assholes or they were trained to hate the enemy and make the mistake of thinking all the people in the region are the enemy.

    War fucking sucks, and people should see the worst of it so they don’t beg for it. Most people never see the reality of war and are protected from it, with content warnings and other things. I’m of the opinion that, in order to vote, you should have to see the worst things that happen in war.