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I'm sure there's a fair bit of that but it seems like organisers are ex soldier cunts with what's left of their hearts in the right place, mass events always turn up some outlier dickheads, angry shouty cunts on CM or pervy nudists on WNBR etc. Whilst I share some of the hired killer sentiment there's 15 years between the end of WW2 and 1960, and after that there's been plenty of poor kids offered promises of a better life in the military and then trained to be shits, I don't agree with it but remembering those who've died, even if they do so in shitty circumstance being sent to kill people that should also be remembered isn't a bad thing, glorifying it is. Remembering the loss of life and horror of war, and hopefully at some point the arseholes the British have been whilst at it should be encouraged to avoid more of it happening in the future. I'm not supporting the bunch of ex squaddy bikers but I'm not against them doing this.
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Yup, good points. The ones that really get me are the ones who’ve never been in the military and yet love being associated with it. There are pics on that page showing guys no older than 50 with rows of ribbons etc. Where did they get those from, eBay? Weirdos.
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I don't agree with it but remembering those who've died, even if they do so in shitty circumstance being sent to kill people that should also be remembered isn't a bad thing, glorifying it is.
Glorifying is what it's all about, though. If people wanted to genuinely do honour to the dead, they'd be agitating to make sure the lives of the living aren't wasted the same way. What we get instead is this necrophiliac virtue signalling and cosplay, from people who aren't so much honouring the dead as co-opting them to support nostalgia-soaked conservative politics.
jj72
itsbruce
It’s not that. It’s that there’s a type of biker who loves to dress up in mock Hells Angel kit with patches and cut offs and fake Americana and ride their immaculate American motorcycle to go to places like this to fulfil their fetish about the military. They give bikers a bad name. The last pic with the “proud to serve veteran” patch I find nauseating. You were a hired killer, a paid mercenary, not a hero.