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Today is Australia and New Zealand's war remembering day (ANZAC Day). Here's to mostly being a meat shield for the US imperial machine. (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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Helping America abuse the global south and stop the spread of communist democracy. What a joke.

I'm proud that the only war my grandad fought in was the only war in which we were the good guys for once, WWII.

Here's to the brave people who fought against facsism.

Fuck imperial Japan

Fuck Nazi Germany

Fuck Zionist Israel

Fuck South Korea

Fuck the US anti-communist empire

Fun story about my Grandad during WW2. He was stationed on an island shooting down Imperial Japanese planes. Near the end of the war they had next to no supplies. Their clothes were even rotting. Then the Americans swooped in late in the war after the hard work was done, with a ton of supplies and money from war profiteering, and instead of sharing supplies with their allies during a fucking war, they charged huge amounts of money for them. Needless to say, my Grandad came back from the war hating the Americans as much as the Japanese.

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[–] TrudeauCastroson@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In kkkanada our remembrance day is on armistice day for WW1 (Nov 11)

When I was a kid I felt like all the assemblies we had in school or other propaganda thing around it were around WW1, because it was a war that Canada conscripted for and the first time Canada sent its own army somewhere (instead of just being under the British).

Because everyone in WW1 is definitely dead, and the WW2 people are dying off, I feel like it's shifted towards all the wars we were clearly bad in (Korea, supporting Vietnam, modern Afghanistan).

I hate this "fighting for our freedom" shit, it's much like America's version of army support, except more lib and smug because we usually say "we were peacekeeping everywhere". Even though we supported the invasion of Vietnam, and mostly go along with whatever the USA does

[–] PointAndClique@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

remembrance day is on armistice day for WW1 (Nov 11)

We have that too, though it isn't a public holiday. It's the 'somber' counterpart to the jingoistic ANZAC day.