This guy is so damned blinded by his own idiotic ideological bullshit that he can’t understand the fact that (among MANY other ones) military personnel don’t get the option to choose when and where they fight.
On top of that, he lacks the basic reading comprehension that a 3rd grader should have. In my posttothis thread, his response just flat out ignores what I said, and claims that the troops are unprincipled, incompetent and enthusiastic about killing, rape and torture.
This is hugely offensive, and I’d like to know what he does for a living that gives him any sort of license to get on his fucking high horse and make that kind of proclamation?
I’d also be willing to “take him behind the woodshed” if he were in Dallas, but seeing as he’s another California nut, that isn’t likely to happen.
Listen Sparky, I spent many years in the US Army I deployed to Iraq and I can see Der trihs’s point and more importantly despite having actually served I am not all that offended by his point. I gotta wonder why you are so hot n bothered. Another case of Chicken Hawk Offenderitis I suppose.
This mystifies me, though. Rather than shoot yourself, wouldn’t a better course of action be to shoot the guy giving you the immoral order, or take him to court challenging his right to give that order, or doing anything rather than just throwing your own life away out of spite? Frankly, the whole “death before compromise” thing just makes one sound like a romantic brain-dead chump, and actually not too far removed from the guys who throw their own lives away for various causes the world over, rather than engaging in the more prosaic steps of trying to change their societies for the better.
You are lying or blind. Der Trihs answered your post. Maybe you didn’t like the answer but you weren’t ignored. In fact, you were answered virtually point for point.
And every soldier does indeed get to decide when to fight or not. They are punished if they make one decision, and sometimes rewarded or maybe killed for the other, but nevertheless it is still a decision they make. If they themselves don’t believe they have a choice, that is all the more pitiful.
I said it in the other thread, but again, Der Trihs is basically the Ann Coulter of the left. I wish he’d shut up, as he makes me embarassed to BE a leftist. He’s every bad strawman you see Rush Limbaugh making up about liberals.
I don’t feel like reading the crap he spouted more than once, so I’m not going to find his exact wording. But I do remember he called the troops something like “thugs in uniform”; that doesn’t offend you?
Did you feel that way when he said he wished you were killed in Iraq? You might have missed that one.
Der Trihs is a coward. He plays the internet tough guy but refuses to participate in any Pits against him. But he has no problem jumping into the Pit against someone else. Maybe this thread will be different. He has stated that he says things on this board that he will not say in real life. Anything I say here I would have no problem saying to anyone. He wishes death to US troops while hidden behind his computer screen but won’t say a peep to them in real life. He is a pitiful little man fighting his battles on the Dope and probably ignored in life as insignificant. He is the one person here that I refuse to interact with. He is a coward.
There have been so many threads that I’m not sure where to start looking. If I can narrow it down I’ll give it a shot. To me it is cowardice not trolling. In my mind a troll says things that are not necessarily true just in order to enjoy the reaction. I have no doubt that he believes what he spouts. I just think he is a coward if he is unwilling to express those opinions to someones face.
As the OP of this very thread makes clear, some people react to statements they don’t like with physical violence. I guess if you think that a simple aversion to physical violence is cowardly, your position is sort of tenable. Personally, though, i think a physical attack in response to mere words is, in itself, a cowardly thing.
Sorry, I just slogged through buckets of shit and didn’t find it yet. There were several more years to go through. I did see multiple comments from other posters saying the same thing but that is not a primary source. There is enough circumstantial evidence for me to believe it but not to prove it in GQ terms. But this is not GQ.
And yet the brave will stick by their convictions even if there are consequences. The coward will hide behind his keyboard and spew crap that he is afraid to say in person. There is nothing I write that I would not be willing to say to someone in person. In fact I would go into greater detail since I am such a bad typist. Someone who hides behind his keyboard is a coward.
True enough, but even in the Pit sometimes it helps not to attribute something to someone they didn’t actually say.
Not that I’m defending him here. Opposing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is one thing; actively hoping for people’s deaths as a part of that opposition is another thing entirely.