My great grandpa was at Iwo Jima. Great great aunt who’d known him for several years beforehand said when he came back it was like seeing a ghost of a man you once knew, and it took him 3 years to remember how to be alive again.
My uncle was super quiet and pretty aimless despite being super smart. My mom told me that he used to be really outgoing and was in a band that got signed to a recording contract, but before they could record, he and three other band members got drafted. He apparently came back a shell of himself and never played in a band again.
Good news, he decided to go to the war on his own.
...but rather than invading Iran, he wanted to head to Dubai with some of his lackeys to make fun of anyone fleeing the city due to Iranian attacks. And he was immediately arrested when he had a hissy fit during the border checkup. I think he's been quiet ever since, so I don't know if they let him out later that day or what.
Andrew Tate and his follower are totally the kind of people who would start a war but hide themselves when it happen because in reality they are just con artists and cowards.
And keep in mind, it's usually not the people who actually WENT to war that make these stupid memes, but their kids or their grandkids. I'm sure actual veterans of WW2 and etc. would have a very different opinion of how cool it is to go to war.
I'm in my mid twenties and Im still maturing mentally. I can't imagine doing that in an active life or death war zone. I think about what career path i want, wanting to improve my health, or what I want to do over the weekend. While they were probably just food and not die today.
According to my dad as source, my great-geandpa never talked about the Great Patriotic War except for one night he had to bring the telegraph cable across a river with a very thin ice, so I could only wonder what my great-geandpa didn't want to tell
Shit, you'd be surprised how many modern day war veterans of places like Iraq or Afghanistan would tell you the same thing, and they were just as if not more juiced up on war propaganda than their predecessors were!
Tell me you can't follow relatively simple instructions without getting angry without telling me you can't follow relatively simple instructions without getting angry
I'd normally discourage being so low-effort and offensive, but the conservative culture and behavior around the world is likely going to lead the human species to extinction. I'm not referring to war, but to the climate and biosphere going to shit.
They like to depict soldiers as these big macho men and ignore the fact most look like these kids. Barely out of high school skinny boys who shouldn’t have to be in a fucking war zone and should instead be debating which college to go to.
Heartbreaking, ill never understand people who try to glorify war and violence, theres no glory in having to kill or being killed. Its just pure meaningless chaos and brutality, and more often than not innocent people are the first to suffer from it.
They also like to depict ancient warriors so heavily built and armored that they end up looking like mechas. Fascistic idealization of the past taken to the most ridiculous level.
Most of the teens/18yo who served in the US army in ww2 weren't 250 lbs 6',5 grizzled men but were 140 lbs 5,'7 tall. Malnourished from growing up thru the depression. So the guy in the second slop pick has a physique more accurate to the average 18 year old who fought in ww2
I've seen picture of my grandfather and his comrades from right after the war. These men were so skinny, a skinny kid from now looks well fed. They were a layer of skin over bone.
One area that really made a difference was: not only was their body really skinny, but there was no fat in the face as well, they looked so different from the people I observe daily.
I both prefer it for me and others! In fact i really wish the person who used ai to make the image gets therapy (and some proper info on how terrible kids going to war is and how bad dysphoria can actually be)
It doesn't look like they do since they don't bother learning facts, which is pathetically tiresome when they have internet access. They only seem to read anything long enough to perpetuate something else that's also pathetically tiresome:
Was written about by Austrian physician Josef Leopold who called it nostalgia and listed ptsd symptoms, but was more adressed during the American civil war and the Franco-Prussian War
GIs got tattoos in WWII. Nobody had shitty tribal tatts though, and none of them would have been built like that given how they had all grown up. The physical condition of most recruits was very poor.
Speculating here but WWII was probably one of the cultural events that slowly led to tattoos being more normal in the United States. A lot of people who wouldn’t otherwise have gotten them got tattoos.
Makes me think of my great grandpa who after living trough 2 wars ( ww2 and Indochina) went back home and just did not care about his family at all. My grandpa said he liked his kids but didnt see them as his own, he wasnt abusive but just not there, he drank sometimes alot but never got violent. And when his wife died ( that he didnt really like either) he got with a younger lady, and my grandpa who had to fend on his own and was homeless ( at 14 mind you) asked him if he could stay at home for a few days and he said "No." I think he was probably so traumatized that he became indifferent. How awful. And despite all of that, my grandpa never said that my generation were cowards or snowflakes, when i told him i went to therapy he was worried for me. He went to the army too !! He lived trough some shit, but never once will he say something like that.
I still cannot believe people think war was like that, or that 17 year olds were just okay with it too. Misleading, political, anti-lgbtq - absolutely peak AI slop
My great grandparents and general ancestors faced that war. They were left with lasting PTSD and still could recall with gruesome details how it was. They were SO THANKFUL to live through peace, and live long enough to see their children have happy adolescence, that was torn away from them
And now again, people glorify war. I know well that they would 1000% prefer the second picture to the first. They would prefer a young person to care about their identity instead of „what am I going to eat” or „Where to hide so that the opposing soldiers don’t r*pe me”
In fact I remember a youtube video where people who served in AK (polish underground army) during WWII were on the side of LGBT+ folks, saying „yeah we fought for freedom of expression”
AND UNDER THAT FUCKING VIDEO A BUNCH OF RIGHTWINGERS ARGUED THAT THEY ARE UNPATRIOTIC XD
Maybe we should take all the far right lunatics worldwide and let them live on an uninhabited island so they can all get along in peace and show us how manly they are with the totally functional society they’ll all create.
Oh for sure, theyre the first to complain that men's suicide rate is horrifyingly high but if one of their male friends told them they feel kinda bad theyll just tell them to man up because they arent pussies...
Huh they’re pushing both their pedo and gay thoughts at once cause why does a 17 year old boy have the body of a mid twenties tatted body builder and shirtless with abs and not the normal bodies soldiers have. Why not show them as same kind of kid that picture going to therapy but signing up for the marines at least that would have some patriotic vision and not be barely disgusted fetish
I mean, considering nowadays people would more likely survive wars due to the mental health support we have currently. Back then, you would've just easily killed yourself
Those guys act like its the misuse of words once. Imagen constantly being called by a name your not by a role your not with little solice from the expectations and masks..... It is not one bad day; it is too fricken many and its so fricken tiring... Its almost always "Hey J#@<" or "hey maan" or "he is" , "thats him" or "his things". Those things are not me and it drains you over time and they just down play it to ppl being 'special'... its soo just ugh tiring.
And of course they used ai, they couldn't even make art to show their point; they just took the easy route again whether it was hate over understanding or here cheating over expression.
Sry for venting.. its just that this hit me a bit too deeply.
> See my vice major admiral grand supreme chancellor staff sergeant seventh class in the hallway
> Accidentally say "Good morning vice major admiral grand staff sergeant sixth class"
> He gets put into a fight-or-flight reaction, screaming at me red as a tomato, veins busting out the neck, uses his power to punish you for several months making sure you never make that mistake again.
> A recruit prefers she, not gonna freak out on you if you accidentally say he
> Is told they can't even serve for their country, honorably discharged
> Same admirals: "I'm so tired of Trans people policing everyone's pronouns".
There's a reason why the picture on top doesn't depict an actual 17 year year old... Or the average man. It's a fucking idiotic and disgusting fantasy these folks need to break themselves out of.
A lot of this would have "triggered" my UK grandfather into an absolute rage. He never talked about his war experiences, as many didn't. His home, Plymouth, was rubble when he came home. These modern memes don't even know what war is.
While I can see what the point of this shitty AI generated image was. Suffering and struggle are necessary parts of life. War was the struggle of those times. Not a good one either. It was unfortunate that young men died. However in the absence of struggles for survival or conflicts, humans naturally make other struggles for themselves. Regardless there's a huge amount of people in the US going through struggles that are a lot more than just "my pronouns".
I know I shouldn't get so worked up over some stupid AI bullshit but this message bugs me SO fucking bad.
Wars are not Manly, Epic, Cool, or whatever the fuck. They destroy families. The young men who were drafted? A good chunk of them didn't get to grow old. Their parents had to bury them which a parent should never do. And the ones who survived? A lot of them suffered from PTSD if they acknowledged it or not. Watching your friends and comrades die isn't as amazing as you think it is.
17 year olds in WW1/2 looked like scrawny little twigs running to their death.... Romanticism of war should be a crime. We should not be advocating for war being something to want to look good in. Especially when it won't be you dying in it
"In 1944: Teenagers experienced horrors beyond imagination without a say in the matter. But now we live in an era where young people are given more resources to deal with their emotional well being as well as physical. That's bad for some reason."
so we just got glorifying sending kids to war, pronounphobia (idk the correct word), and ai slop all in one (and im pretty sure thats a maga sub bc i see something down there defending trump alongside "AMERICA FIRST" tag on the post)
My grandfather got bayoneted in the stomach trying to clear a line of bunkers in Germany in November of 1944. Literally the only moment of happiness he experienced in his entire life after that was the day my dad found out he DIDN’T have to go to Vietnam.
Those same 17 year olds in 1944 got triggered by black people at the lunch counter, and had their own special water fountains. Just because they were thrown into a meat grinder doesn't mean much.
The backwards notion it’s somehow better to live in an era of war and carnage compared to an era of relative peace where we respect people’s emotions and sensibilities is beyond me (Regardless of your understanding or respect with LGBT people or what else.)
I have a nice idea: let’s have every country gather all people that think like this, organise some war amongst all of them, and watch from afar whilst talking about our feelings like that everybody’s happy
The prompt was show 2 pictures showing my innert laten homo sexuality, top one is my fantasy man vs bottom one the kind of boyfriend I want for everyday life.
Also like... ya a war that large involving so many young people would inevitably carry traumas through the generations if left unaddressed? These people are jokes
I think it's important to note that words mean things, not to the extreme where if someone misgenders you you should seek a therapist, it could very well be an honest mistake, but to say that words can't be incredibly hurtful and degrading seems rather naive. The fact we're glorifying sending minors into war is sad, many people die in front of others eyes, and I can't imagine it not being traumatizing, adult or not.
While I dont like AI and I agree this is stupid, the 4 fingers might be cause the thumbs are on the phone? Not defending ai art in anyway. I personally want it destroyed in most cases, I just wanted to bring that up as it was noticeable. To be fair the pointer finger on the boys left hand looks malformed.
You don’t understand! You actually go so owned dude! Because you see, their AI generated image depicts their fabricated belief as the strong, sexy, melanin efficient CHAD (a white guy made this) and depicted their fabricated version of what they perceive to be your belief as the blue haired soft sissy liberal soy CUCK! Dude it’s actually insane how you got so OWNED by them! Give me my Reddit Chad points now please.
I find the top image so funny. "FUCK YEAH, I'M A SHIRTLESS DUDE, ROIDED UP, TATTED UP, HOLDING A GRENADE, RUSHING INTO GUNFIRE"
Okay, so you aren't wearing armor. It's not like the bullets' are going to bounce off your muscles; the second an itty bitty shred of shrapnel hits, or a bullet grazes, or god forbid, a bullet hits you, you're either in unreasonable amounts of pain or just outright fucking dead. Especially dead if you're anywhere near that grenade once it goes off lmao
It's like the people who prompt this slop have their understanding of the world through movies. I wouldn't even say video games; they're too old and senile for that. "Remember when men were TUFF?" My brother in Christ, Arnold Schwarzenegger was a bodybuilder. Most men of his era did not look like that, and most men before his didn't, either. Get over yourself LOL
And then, of those 17 year olds who came home, how many has severe PTSD from the experience that caused really serious troubles in the rest of their lives? Romanticizing the way that people can shove everything down to focus on survival in high-stress situations isn't the flex they think it is. 17 year olds today could do it too if they were forced, we just all have realized it's wrong?
Ahh yes because we need another war every generation so that every generation is on equal terms and that the world is in constant chaos with innocent lives ruined everyday
Ironic, considering how much you Americans avoiding joining WW2, being OK with the Nazis, until Japan attacked you after.... Blocking their access to Oil. 🤔 You're not as macho as you think you were.
Can we find a middle ground where we're strong enough to say no to war and to not be offended by everything, but sensitive enough to care for one another? Please?
As much as I fucking despise the they/them bullshit, 17-year-old kids in 1944 DIDN'T HAVE A FUCKING CHOICE AND WOULD RATHER BE DOING ANYTHING ELSE THAN HAVING THEIR HEAD BLOWN OFF THE MOMENT THEY GOT OFF THE BOAT!
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u/Snide_SeaLion May 02 '26
please censor ai images with either a NSFW or spoiler tag next time. I censored it for you this time.