2026-04-18 02:31 UTC
@c_reider @RadicalGraffiti as somebody struggling with having been part of killing the people mentioned, I hate to say it but hundreds of thousands.
On my first deployment we killed almost three hundred people, second was over a hundred. That was two aviation units, deployed for about a year each. My units were skilled but not particularly exceptional, so that's a reasonable range for an average aviation deployment.
Ground units I have no idea about, but despite what it looks like from the outside currently, the DoD is really, really good at killing people at industrial scale.
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@burnitdown@beige.party 2026-04-18 03:32
@TeflonTrout @c_reider @RadicalGraffiti that is truly terrible. Utah Phillips was a veteran of the Korean war. after he came home, Amon Hennacy taught him how to turn his life around and make a living, not a killing. this is the song i thought of while reading your post. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkkbr3CeZVw