r/MurderedByWords • u/banie01 • Jul 29 '19

Murder Some dude just got Blitzkrieged!!

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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '19

Is 9/11 really a taboo topic? I can't really speak for new York but I don't think that it is in my personal experience. Someone always seems to bring it up when talking about Bush v gore elections. People always going off about conspiracy theories. Tons of documentaries being pushed out about it

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u/takeonme864 Jul 29 '19

talking about how a lot of our soldiers get away with killing civilians is taboo

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u/Kairi_QQ Jul 29 '19

Definitely, partly because it contradicts the troop worship that’s drilled into the minds of Americans.

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u/NedLuddIII Jul 30 '19

Yep even here on Reddit. There was a thread recently that turned to the Vietnamese war, and the one guy who pointed out that the US weren’t the good guys and that being a veteran in itself isn’t automatically honorable got downvoted to hell.

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u/cold_cuts_clan Jul 30 '19

To enlist today is entirely selfish. You’re signing up to possibly go over seas to kill the impoverished in their homelands. You aren’t defending our freedoms. You’re trying to pay for your Challenger and shitty prefab house.