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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.
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Spot on.
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I'm not going to disagree that there's way too much of that shit around, but after a bit of a look at the ride organisers and aims, it's not aimed at that specifically but it's certainly hard to separate some military dickheads with a reasonably good cause in mind from the cosplaying twats. Much as it's hard to separate is military haters like us from the occasionally necessary evil I'm glad other people take part in so I don't have to. I'm not sure the wall of remembrance itself is glorifying war, I'm not sure the ride aimed at raising money to maintain it is, some of the dickheads contributing money to it may well be doing so but that doesn't necessarily rule out the whole thing as bad.
ltc
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snottyotter
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.