The reaction to 9/11 being “we need to kill somebody for this, doesn’t matter who” is a case in point
When the USS Cole bombing didn’t generate enough public support
And neither did the video of grown men in fatigues playing on monkey bars
From Arlo Guthrie’s 1967 anti-draft song Alice’s Restaurant, in which the protagonist is evaluated by a military psychiatrist and tries to get rejected on the basis of being a violent bloodthirsty maniac: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m57gzA2JCcM&t=519
And I went up there, I said, “Shrink, I want to kill. I mean, I wanna, I wanna kill. Kill. I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and guts and veins in my teeth. Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean kill, Kill, KILL, KILL.”
And I started jumpin up and down yelling, “KILL, KILL,” and he started jumpin up and down with me and we was both jumping up and down yelling, “KILL, KILL.”
And the sargent came over, pinned a medal on me, sent me down the hall, said, “You’re our boy.”
It’s always been a death cult nation
First thing I thought when I read that tweet.
Graham platner took this advice seriously.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Why isn’t this meme flashing… Oh god, what have I done?
the screen is always flashing, don’t worry
William Nicholson wrote a book about a limitlessly-replenishing army of Zars that march into foreign lands shouting “Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill”, their entire personalities and customs and social relations are about killing… and he thought he was being hyperbolic.
