US army major faces rape and sexual assault charges involving 20 victims

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/08/army-major-sexual-assault-jonathan-batt

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JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Let's have him run for president, then!

BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y

That lightweight?

Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 1y

Major fucking cunt.

AmidFuror@fedia.io · 4 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Sounds like Hawkeye Pierce.

Zacpod@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y

Hawkeye was a flirt, not a rapist. He took a lot of no's with grace.

kandoh@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 1y

He was a captain

Iheartcheese@lemmy.world · -18 pts · 1y (4 replies)

I thought rape was basically legal for soldiers? Pretty much a job perk.

acockworkorange@mander.xyz · 14 pts · 1y

The U.S. army executed several of its soldiers and a few British ones for the crime of rape during WW2.

credo@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

You watch too much propaganda.

JayleneSlide@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

The "consequences" for those involved in the Mỹ Lai Massacre (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_massacre) paints a different picture.

That said, I have some close friends in the military, including one who is a Military Defense Counsel. Enforcement, when it happens, is quite strict.

TheBat@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
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lightscription@lemmy.world · -20 pts · 1y (6 replies)
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Brkdncr@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 1y (5 replies)

Am I having a stroke?

Subtracty@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y (3 replies)

What the fuck did we just read?

catloaf@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y

Mental illness.

Bezier@suppo.fi · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I think this user might be posting in another language and then running them through machine translation.

Brkdncr@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

its 2nd language and mental illness wrapped together.

lightscription@lemmy.world · -17 pts · 1y
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