[scotty79]

Suddenly war and associated killings stopped being theoretical. Bunch of people that used to be as dangerous (in practice) to civilization as paintballers started actually using real weapons on real people.

Military in peacetime is cosplaying (larping?) war. So there's little resistance to aiding them in their silliness. When they actually start to bomb people, it's another story.

They deal was, we aid you in your pretend-wars, but you don't start actual ones. This deal has been violated and people don't abide by that.

[inhumantsar]

I'm sure all the people who died in Iraq and Afghanistan would be glad to know it was all just pretend.

[scotty79]

It's what happens when you stop just playing pretend even briefly, same goes for current debacle in Iran.

No reasonable person tolerates this behavior. When military does that it immediately loses leniency of smart people.

[BoneShard]

haha, larping, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_Uni...

[scotty79]

only a tiny fraction of US military is engaged it this kinetic stupidity for only tiny fraction of time, the rest is larping

US military is first and foremost a welfare program for people who chose to not perform any useful economic activity.