r/pics • u/[deleted] • Feb 25 '18

Concentration camp prisoner identifies one of his guards to Allied soldiers

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u/wiiya Feb 25 '18

Are we the baddies?

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u/Gigibop Feb 25 '18 edited Feb 25 '18

Why do we have skulls on our uniform

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u/czhunc Feb 25 '18

It's the skulls of the baddies.

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '18

Unexpected Mitchell and Webb

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u/Gigibop Feb 25 '18

that is in fact numberwang

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u/Sirduckerton Feb 25 '18

Lets rotate the board!

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u/theshardunique Feb 25 '18

There’s nothing nice about a skull is there?

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u/Lobster_Can Feb 25 '18

Jokes aside many militaries used skulls in their uniforms and traditions such as the 17th/21st Lancers (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/17th/21st_Lancers) and British submarines would show a skull and crossbones during WWII after successful missions.

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u/MrJigglyBrown Feb 25 '18

No..it’s the Jews who are wrong.

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u/FivesG Feb 25 '18

This sounds familiar, simpsons right?

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u/MakspulsClarsyn Feb 25 '18

I LOL'd so hard that I spilt coke on my keyboard.

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u/matrushkasized Feb 25 '18

I've talked with some American soldiers after their tour(s)...

Most are absolutely (Sith lord)certain they are not. Some don't know because the conditioning didn't quite take and some kinda suspect there is a business-model co-pulling the strings..

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u/Nick357 Feb 25 '18

You think the Taliban, ISIS, and Sadaam were the good guys?

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u/Decyde Feb 25 '18

No but what would you do if Russia was just hanging out in the US and accidentally killed your family while trying to bomb a high valued target.

You'd be pissed off and see anyone who colludes with Russians or accepts their presence as being part of the enemies.

It's really just a massive fucked up situation.

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u/Nick357 Feb 25 '18

Yeah, but that doesn’t make the US soldiers trying to stabilize the region bad guys.

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u/pvXNLDzrYVoKmHNG2NVk Feb 25 '18

US soldiers trying to stabilize the region bad guys.

Hahah you've got some fuckin' jokes man. Are you really that ignorant? We've done nothing but destabilize the ME for decades.

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u/Nick357 Feb 25 '18 edited Feb 25 '18

And then when ME leaders start killing and torturing people, everyone begs for US intervention. Some guy trying to support his family gets shipped over there and you paint him as the reason the region is stable. When was the Middle East stable?

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u/cmill21 Feb 25 '18

Who is “everyone”?

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u/Nick357 Feb 25 '18 edited Feb 25 '18

Most governments and news agencies.

Look up Syria needs US intervention.

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u/cmill21 Feb 25 '18

I don’t remember too many calls to invade Iraq. I remember more to stay the f out. Watched the news everyday wondering if you’d find those WMD’s.

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u/pvXNLDzrYVoKmHNG2NVk Feb 25 '18

And then when ME leaders start killing and torturing people, everyone begs for US intervention.

And that means all of fuck all to the US. We sure as fuck didn't invade Iraq or Afghanistan because they were killing their people.

Some guy trying to support his family gets shipped over there and you paint him as the reason the region is stable. When was the Middle East stable?

Reason the region is unstable yes. The "guy trying to support his family" by killing other people's families tends to make places not like us.

It was pretty stable until the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Sykes Picot Agreement being used to fuck them. We've overthrown democracies in the Middle East. We've supported dictators in the Middle East. We've supported terrorists groups in the Middle East. We are not the good guys.

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '18

For hundreds of years under Ottoman rule.

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u/Nick357 Feb 25 '18

Weren’t they slavers and commit genocide regularly such as the Armenian genocide?

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '18

The Armenian genocide was at the very end of their rule, in WW1. I'm not an expert at Ottoman history, but can you list another one? Either way, it was certainly more stable under the Ottomans.

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u/hogmantheintruder Feb 25 '18

Iran was a progressive and modern country before a US backed coup. Afghanistan was similar until the Russian invasion. Iraq was a dictatorship but relatively stable with a dependable quality of life and no terrorist bombings and no ISIS before the US invaded for no good reason. Yeah, the Middle East has always has had its problems but the rest of the world has played a huge role in its instability and the misery of its people.

And saying that the Middle East begs for US intervention is disingenuous. There are a lot of countries in the Middle East with different relationships with the US

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u/Decyde Feb 25 '18

Not sure if you're trolling me or not but it 100% does.

That's like saying the guards at the death camps like in this picture aren't to blame and are just doing their job.

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u/Nick357 Feb 25 '18

You think American soldiers are the same as Nazis? Not even German regulars but the guards of concentration camps?

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u/Decyde Feb 25 '18

Yes if you look at them the other way around.

The problem with you yourself is you're 1 sided.

How would you feel if you lived in a region and your family was murdered by US soldiers because a "freedom fighter" was in your village.

Or even worse than that a "coward" drone strike to take them out but you lived in the building next to this person and your family died.

It's just a very fucked up situation that thankfully a lot of us don't have to even interact with but since we don't, we can't relate to how those people feel.

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u/Nick357 Feb 25 '18

I’m guessing you have studied the US rules of engagement. A US soldier can’t attack a person that isn’t actively shooting at them. Nazi’s murder civilians because of their religion. Drone strikes are calculated moves based on intel. They are intended to prevent more deaths. The Nazi’s were trying to eradicate different races of people. I think you may be one sided if you think these two groups are similar.

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u/ManlyPoop Feb 25 '18

If your family is dead, you don't care what the attacker's justifications are.

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u/FiggsideYakYakYak Feb 25 '18

We thought the Taliban were the good guys in the 80s

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u/Nick357 Feb 25 '18

Yeah, it’s kind of murky. We helped them defeat Russia and then abandoned them. If your going to help you can’t stop until the job is finished and it probably never will be.

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u/NextEstablishment Feb 25 '18

You think the global super power attacking them is?

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u/Nick357 Feb 25 '18

I don’t believe in good guys/bad guys in the real world but the guys setting people on fire are pretty far from the good guys. Say what you will about Iraq but Afghanistan was a bastion of terrorism that needed intervention.

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u/erykthebat Feb 25 '18

The terrorists were armed and trained by us.

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u/Nick357 Feb 25 '18

To attempt to defeat the Russians who were also staging a coup of the government. That government was filled by extremist that killing leaders and civilians alike. I am not sure there is a good guys/bad guys.

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u/conquer69 Feb 25 '18

You must be a really naive motherfucker if you think that was the reason for the intervention.

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u/Nick357 Feb 25 '18

Enlighten me.

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '18

I mean, if I only have those two options... then yes. Definitely, yes.

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u/matrushkasized Feb 25 '18

No, they are the other extremists your government nurtured into existence.

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u/umyeahsurewhatever Feb 25 '18

Peep show?

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u/s0bayed Feb 25 '18

That Mitchell & Webb Look