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[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 208 points 5 months ago

This is based as far as I can tell.

It's a bummer how killing strangers for your government is glorified.

[-] Makhno@lemmy.world 88 points 5 months ago

It's a bummer how killing strangers for your government is glorified.

It's definitely more palatable when the strangers you're killing are nazis

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 36 points 5 months ago

I can agree that there's been an extremely minuscule amount of justifiable war in an endless number of wars.

[-] Lileath@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 5 months ago

But the story in the greentext takes place in 1932, before the Nazis even got into power in Germany.

[-] errer@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

Yeah I’m struggling to come up with the war anon could be referring to…

[-] Alienmonkey@lemm.ee 7 points 5 months ago

Japan was invading China.

But this is clearly fake and connected to the month of June.

Anon probably read a story about this happening and assumed the heir of the protagonist. Then used online for attention and group feedback on his projection that hiding in a cave is somehow based.

They are probably in that cave right now.

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[-] Tagger@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

except they mostly weren't

[-] elvith@feddit.org 27 points 5 months ago

It's a bummer how killing strangers for your government is glorified.

Killing for yourself: Government will track you down, kick your door in and throw you in prison and maybe send you into the death row.

Killing for your government: Government will provide training, shelter, equipment, pay you and award you medals.

[-] r00ty@kbin.life 22 points 5 months ago

Killing for your government: Government will track you down, kick your door in and throw you in prison for refusing to.

Fixed thar for you :P

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[-] cheddar@programming.dev 12 points 5 months ago

Tribalism. Our tribe is good, their tribe is bad. If you are not with your tribe, you are a traitor, so people are pressurized into this, and start believing lies about our glorious pride and wise leaders.

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 32 points 5 months ago

Probably a cooler picture than Stanhope appreciates, but:

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 128 points 5 months ago

War is for pussies

Real men talk out their problems without violence

[-] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 30 points 5 months ago

Sometimes war is brought to your door.

Recent ones: Gaza. Ukraine.

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago

Yeah

Started by fucking pussies

Defense isn't war.

War masquerading as defense is for fucking pussies

[-] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

War is two sides fighting. By and large one side is always on defense. By your strange definition of war, it would only be when two sides simultaneously agree to attack each other because they each decided to conquer the other at the exact same moment.

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[-] Fizz@lemmy.nz 7 points 5 months ago

Defense can still be war.

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[-] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago

Because that worked out so well in this exact case, Neville Chamberlain?

[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 11 points 5 months ago

Hitler was too big of a pussy unfortunately.

[-] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

You turn the corner to see a skinhead beating your dad with a baseball bat. You have a gun. Walk us through your next moves.

[-] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 79 points 5 months ago

Based. Put the people who declared the war on the frontline.

[-] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 23 points 5 months ago

That's often the case when it's a battle over shit like oil but for instance when Germany attacked Poland, it's the Poles' primary responsibility to fight for what is theirs. "Let the people who declared war be on the front line" okay well in this example that's Germany and you're going to lose everything your family ever worked for.

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[-] RunawayFixer@lemmy.world 68 points 5 months ago

I'm going to go with based. I would not have wanted to be a conscript with the rank of private in any army at this time period. You'll be badly treated disposable cannon fodder and you'll be stuck in that situation until the war ends, until you get taken prisoner, until you desert, or until you died.

[-] shasta@lemm.ee 60 points 5 months ago

Can be pussy and based. And based on the world war death tolls, there's a very high chance OP would never have been born otherwise

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[-] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 40 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

My grandfather did the exact same thing. But he was in conquered France and did it to avoid being drafted by the Nazis.

Edit: There were also a stories of other people in the village finding other ways to avoid the Nazi draft. One of them pretended to be deaf and managed to avoid falling for a few tricks the Germans played on him in an attempt to expose him, such as dropping a coin behind his back. Another one reported to the draft medical examination after purposefully biking over an insanely long distance. When he arrived he was completely exhausted and the doctor deemed him too anemic for military service. All of those in the village who couldn't dodge the draft were sent as cannon fodder on the eastern front and never returned, except for one "lucky" individual who lost a leg.

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago

The only thing more based would be fragging his Nazi CO.

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[-] Keanu@lemmynsfw.com 33 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The Emu War (or Great Emu War)[2] was a nuisance wildlife management military operation undertaken in Australia over the later part of 1932

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War

Grandpa was right...

[-] YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub 15 points 5 months ago

On the internet, no one knows that you are a giant bird

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 17 points 5 months ago

There has been tons of conflicts occurring every year since the beginning of human civilization

[-] r00ty@kbin.life 6 points 5 months ago

Humans? I knew it! Even when it was the bears, I knew it was them!

[-] ericbomb@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

Based purely on names, about 90% of those are HARD pass from me.

The other 10% are a soft pass.

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[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 38 points 5 months ago

It depends entirely on what country Anon's grandfather was from.

[-] plasticbuddha@lemmy.world 27 points 5 months ago

it's likely you're here because he hid...

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago
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[-] Glowstick@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

Depends on which war it was

[-] pumpkinseedoil@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago

The one difference that matters if he dodged invading a country or defending his own.

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[-] TTimo@lemm.ee 7 points 5 months ago

What country was drafting in 1932? No major war effort going on anywhere at the time afaik.

[-] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 15 points 5 months ago

Idk about drafts but some conflicts in that period:

  • French-IndoChina vs Siam

  • Saya San Rebellion

  • Sino-Tibetan War

  • Kumul Rebellion

  • Idrisid Emirate Rebellion

  • Najran conflict

  • Uukwambi uprising

  • Annexation of Jimma

  • Chechen uprising of 1932

  • Two-Liu War

  • Kirghiz rebellion

  • La Matanza

  • January 28 incident (China v Japan)

  • Darre Khel revolt

  • Soviet–Japanese border conflicts

  • 1932 armed uprising in Mongolia

  • Lesko uprising

  • Constitutionalist Revolution of Brazil

  • Ecuadorian Civil War of 1932

  • Sanjurjada

  • Colombia–Peru War

  • Chaco War

And technically the Emus vs Australia. This list has not been vetted by a professional nor is it a complete or exhaustive list.

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[-] joneskind@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

It depends on the war we are talking about I guess?

The only war I would participate without question would be if my country (EU) was invaded.

Absolute based in any other scenario.

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