(June 6, 2022 at 12:25 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: The cause of veterans killing themselves back home has more to do with what is and is not true back home. Unemployment, homelessness, and poverty - and substance abuse. These are the things that await the majority of groundpounders in any age, of any sexual orientation, back home - compounded in their specific cases (as a majority white and rural demographic) by homophobic communities. Many joined to escape those things and avail themselves of the meals, and bed, and marginal pay. The military refused to acknowledge that they even existed, denying their honor in a frankly shameful display of antipathy towards brothers in arms.
No one takes the tools of killing more seriously than professional soldiers....but we still like to paint on our vehicles. We're not automatons. We have human emotions and compulsions. Did you know that we tend to paint our faces our very own way too...? That we name our equipment? That we can fall in love with a drone like it was a pet dog (to the point where soldiers have advocated for drones being awarded medals).
I respect all of that, but looking at things objectively, the tweet with the pride bullets turned out to be a major backfire, and it's clearly not a good look as I doubt their intention was to piss off most gay people, so given that, I think we can conclude that the tweet was not a great example of a good way to try to recruit gay folks, but who knows, maybe I'm just not seeing how this is going to turn out fantastically for recruitment.
I could just as easily turn your argument around and use the hypothetical argument Helios gave us. BLM written on police bullets. If a police department tweeted that out, would you say to BLM activists who were offended, hush up, this isn't for you, it's for black police officers? Would you really do that? Helios says he would be ok with BLM being put on police bullets, but somehow I think you would have a different opinion on the matter.
