lol holy fuck I hope no one takes this seriously, because Vietnam was fucking hell for the soldiers. No one thought it was awesome except some conservative Nixon supporting fucks who didn't care because they didn't have their 16 year old get drafted.
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Ew new wars are so ugly 🤮 Give us the ol' good trench war!
Reminds me of one of the worst academic papers I've ever seen https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14616742.2015.1075317
Lemmy has got to be the only place where people use reaction academic papers rather than reaction gifs. But i love that. Thanks for sharing
There’s a lot of interesting idea in this paper, presented in a very strange way. The main idea is that drone warfare takes a lot of the masculinity (for example, courage in the face of death) out of warfare, and masculinity can be seen as one of the main concepts that drive war. The act of killing is no longer masculine in this context (like the meme shows) and this poses a big problem for the military. The paper takes a strange direction and implies that because it can’t be masculine, it might be queer (gay), and further that this queerness could be a positive opportunity for changing the discourse about war. It’s a cool idea that talking about drone warfare’s emasculation could change people’s minds about war, but the way that they used queerness as a concept to get there reads so bizarrely.
I've had conversations with people who think that Medieval warfare was more honorable and better because of the hand to hand nature of it, and that guns ruined how badass it was.
It also draws to mind the inventor of the machine gun Hiram Maxim's idea that the machine gun would be so terrible that people would stop having wars.
The reality is that war has always been the worst thing that can happen, and most people die of disease and indiscriminate weapons like artillery.
It seems the strategy of making hell more hellish to stop the hell is a poor one.
I was so taken out of it, I thought they may have just been using queer in the context of irregularity but then they hit me with "drones could give people gender anxiety" and I didn't know where I was anymore lol
It's almost an interesting train of thought, but war isn't inherently masculine, and I think it's a pretty undeserving concept once you consider external factors that drive people to conflict. This feels like it views masculinity solely through the lens of what is more accurately described as toxic masculinity, where the image of maleness is based in some combatitive quantity.
"The Forever War" by Joe Haldeman.
The author was a Vietnam vet and physics professor. The novel was written in the 1970s. One of the ideas is that in the future all soldiers will be gay/lesbian and heterosexuals in the ranks will be looked down on.
Fun book
wtf did i just read. lmao. this gotta be some ragebait paper.
I show how descriptions of drone warfare are rife with symptoms of an unresolved disorientation, often expressed as gender anxiety over the failure of the distance–intimacy and home–combat axes to orient killing with drones.
The 'Fortunate Sons' are the rich ones with connections who didn't have to go to war. They got it backwards.
The war version of Zizek's "my chatbot fucks your chatbot, we get sex out of the way and we can discuss philosophy".
I do think its funny that people think the drone war future is one in which humans aren't getting killed instead of where where humans can't even fight back.
Go watch ANY footage of the war in Ukraine and think about swarms of those drones working their way down your street, because that is what it looks like.
Didn't some country try to develop a chemical agent that would turn the enemy gay? 🤔
The US did:
Ah yes, notorious woke libtards “Lockheed Martin”
IDK how to tell you this...
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lockheed-martin_lgbtq-pridemonth-activity-6547850471061671936-zW0P
I remember a post from way back was a picture of someone's legs on their desk, wearing Lockheed Martin branded trans flag thigh socls
Those are coveted by the noncredibledefense crowd. You can get copies on AliExpress, but they just aren't the same.
Didn't you hear? Lockheed is "extremely woke" according to the right-wing culture warriors:
I've heard of rainbow capitalism but I haven't heard of rainbow warfare 😆
Nerds ruined war.
The commercialization is what took out all the fun. You used to go to war over physical things like land or treasure, then it was ideology and now it's just so the green line goes up. Lame af.
Nothing gets the murder juices flowing like being forced into a hot, humid environment you never thought about until getting drafted.
Yeah, like "war was fun before" Sure kido.
Anyone who thinks America were the good guys in Vietnam is full on fucking stupid.
America who faked an attack on themselves (Gulf of Tonkin incident) to get into a war, start loosing and so used chemical weapons and random attacks on women and children. Then continuing to lose Richard Nixon decided to extend the war crimes and deaths several years in order to run an illegal and undeclared war against Laos and Cambodia - allowing Pol Pot and the Kymer Rouge to get into power off the millitarism and anti-American sentiment the wars created.
Eventually when the American media and students got angry enough and the war dead and massive extent of war crimes, and illegal actions of Nixon got too much, America finally decided to accept their losses and just leave. Leaving Pol Pot to commit his own extremist crimes against humanity.
Ultimately Vietnam had to then go to war with their neighbors in order to stop Pol Pot's war cimes and genocides. Vietnam cleaned up America's mess.
All because America was afraid of Socialism.
The fucking "good guys", spraying agent orange and napalm on children.
Do you want "Warhammer 40000: in the grim darkness of the future there is only war"?
Because that is how you get "Warhammer 40000: in the grim darkness of the future there is only war".

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