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What things have you noticed triggers downvotes on lemmy? (lazysoci.al)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

As a retired US veteran, I encourage people to actively be critical of us! Most of us aren't heroes just for signing up. Most veterans didn't do anything heroic during their service; heck, I was an IT technician. I spent 20 years mostly sitting at a desk, working on/with computers. Any civilian could do that.

Yeah you're not getting me. US veterans are people who committed or contributed to great evils all over the world and anyone who supports the US military or is proud for having been part of it should be actively shunned for it. I doubt you'd call Russians fighting in Ukraine "just people", and those have a lot more of an excuse than Iraq war veterans did, but Americans really don't like hearing this, hence the downvotes.