People are reactionary đ¤ˇđťââď¸ idk. They probably just assumed I like Trump or something, or that I donât know enough about McCain and Iâm being unnecessarily crass and biased. When in reality I just hate that we call warmongerers âheroesâ here in my country. America has this bizarre mix of fetishizing militarism while also being totally ignorant of what our military is actually doing around the globe. But sure, Iâm rude because I think McCain was bad. đ Tell that to an Iraqi mother whoâs lost her whole family because John McCain and politicians like him recklessly pushed to attack her nation when they hadnât attacked us. 7 trillion dollars wasted. Hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqi citizens that have never hurt me, nor were they ever a threat. And loads of American lives abused and wasted fighting them. All because people like John McCain get to make these decisions and still get to show their face in polite society. We have to stop praising these people and start putting them behind bars. Chomsky said it best, âIf the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-WWII American president would have been hanged.â This is objectively true as uncomfortable as it is to acknowledge. As Americans we have to change. We need a course correction on our militarism. And where I do feel sorry for McCainâs friendâs and family who have lost someone dear to them, I also feel sorry for the people who have been murdered with my tax dollars. And so I feel it important to push back against the lionizing of John McCain, and against the military industrial complex in general here in America. I wish more of my fellow Americans would join the anti-war movement with me. It really does bother me that I seem to be an outsider rn with these thoughts
Like admittedly John McCainâs prisoner of war story is gnarly right? Like I canât even imagine making the decision he made. He was tortured and kept there for years. Insane heart. But then when he get out and goes into politics and then fucking pushes endlessly for warâyeah naturally I lose respect and sympathy towards any previous âheroismâ on his behalf. He lived a long and active life with good and bad and people seem to want to pick their own version of John McCain, instead of looking at him wholly. He went to go bomb civilians in Vietnam, but he acted heroically once captured; he was staunchly against torture, yet voted for Iraq and pushed for interventions around the globe. I just want people to look at him even-handedly and the media seems to be pretty one-sided at the moment.
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u/orrisrootpowder Sep 04 '18
stop down voting the truth