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A snippet: "....Why do I relate to Platner? Well, in January 2005, when we both were in Iraq, my unit, a SEAL platoon, had as its platoon baseball hats the emblem of the Knights Templar and “infidel” written in Arabic on the back. We weren’t expressing an opinion on the Crusades; we just thought it looked gangster (there was barely even Wikipedia back then). At the SEAL Team, one could buy a T-shirt that said: “I support Iraqi Prisoner Abuse.” No joke.
Did we really believe that war crimes as policy were good? Or were we 23 years old and doubling down on being tough and aggressive when our friends were trickling home in body bags and we had been taught that being tough and aggressive would keep us alive? On my platoon commemorative plaque from that deployment, we misspelled “Fallujah.”
I once (it’s been deleted, but I’m pretty sure the verbage is close) called Donald Trump Jr. “an oxy snorting nepo fucktard,” on what was then Twitter in the first Trump term. I may have used the “R” word. I’ve definitely called some MAGAs the “P” word."

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Great article, sano.
Thanks.

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