United States Troops Die For World Domination, Not Freedom by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2021-06-01 at 01:18:20 )

United States Troops Die For World Domination, Not Freedom by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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Vice President Kamala Harris spent the weekend under fire from Republicans, which of course means that Kamala Harris spent the weekend being criticized for the most silly, vapid reason you could possibly criticize Kamala Harris for.

Apparently the likely future president tweeted "Enjoy the long weekend," a reference to the Memorial Day holiday on Monday, instead of gushing about fallen troops and sacrifice.

That is it, that is the whole entire story. That silly, irrelevant offense by one of the sleaziest people in the single most corrupt and murderous government on earth is the whole entire basis for histrionic headlines from conservative media outlets like this:

"DISGUSTING" DISRESPECT: Vice President Kamala Harris ignites outrage over "misfire" Memorial Day tweet-Fox News (FoxNews) May 29, 2021

Ms Harris, the born politician, was quick to course correct.

"Throughout our history our service men and women have risked everything to defend our freedoms and our country," the veep tweeted. "As we prepare to honor them on Memorial Day, we remember their service and their sacrifice."

Which is of course complete bullshit.

It has been generations since any member of the United States military could be said to have served or sacrificed defending the United States of America or its freedoms, and that has been the case throughout almost the entirety of its history.

If you are reading this it is statistically unlikely that you are of an age where any United States military personnel died for any other reason than corporate profit and global domination, and if you are it is almost certain you were not old enough to have had mature thoughts about it at the time.

Whenever you criticize the United States war machine online within earshot of anyone who is sufficiently propagandized, you will invariably be lectured about the second World War and how we would all be speaking German or Japanese without the brave men who died for our freedom.

This makes my point for me: the fact that apologists for United States imperialism always need to reach all the way back through history to the cusp of living memory to find even one single example of the United States of American military being used for purposes that were not evil proves that it most certainly is evil.

But this is one of the main reasons there are so very many movies and history documentaries made about World War Two: it is an opportunity to portray United States servicemen bravely fighting and dying for a noble cause without having to bend the truth beyond recognition.

The other major reason is that focusing on the second World War allows members of the United States empire to escape into a time when the Big Bad Guy on the world stage was someone else.

Happy Memorial Day-