Antifa uniform

The joke is the subversion of expectations. Under the caption "Antifa uniform", you would normally expect something less "official" or formal, since the public image is one of generic Anti-establishment rebels.

The juxtaposition of that preconception with the formal dress of a decorated military officer is intended to surprise and provoke thought.

Jokes don't need to be fictional or untrue. With the right framing to misdirect expectations, reality can be enough to subvert them.

Well... at the very least it's not "haha" funny

They workin' hard at it. Its now a requirement for all of us currently serving to have watched Kegsbreath's speech to the Generals.

I had already watched it as it was happening just because I wanted to be mentally prepared for what would be coming, and I was saddened/pissed/horrified.

The second watch through wasn't any better.

... in the photo.

at the top of the photo. "Me in my antifa uniform."

One of those rare comments where you want to smash upvote harder.

I'll lend you mine.

Just a job by participating in the murder and torture of innocent people that happens to be living in the wrong place at the wrong time.

At least he doesn't shoot you down literally.

I agree that there was unfavorable media coverage of the Vietnam Conflict. There was also a fire hose of positive media coverage, as well as a very intensive campaign to conceal how badly things were going, along with a lot of disinformation around why the US was there in the first place. Hell, I recall reading newly disclosed details about the Gulf of Tonkin Incident not too long ago.

Anecdotally, my family were boat people fleeing the Communist regime. To this day, to a one, they are all hard-line Conservative, even when subjected to profiling under this administration. I like to think I'm somewhat informed and have certainly consumed a lot of media regarding the US and Vietnam. Somehow, I only first heard of the My Lai Massacre around 2005. Again, merely anecdote, but media control by the governments is a hell of a drug.

My original points stand: we get to Monday morning quarterback a lot of shit; better an imperfect ally than more enemies; and however long it takes for someone to come around, better that they come around than not.

The Republican party thanks you for doing your best to sew division among their opponents.

The rest of us wish you'd shove your purity testing into your least pure orifice.

With an attitude like that you’d better be strong enough to stand alone.

Is it also ridiculous that the current overtly fascist administration would call out anti-fascism as a terrorist philosophy? 'Cos dude, it's happening and there's nothing ridiculous about it.

Respecting the uniform, in this case, is less about Vietnam or Korea or the Middle-east or any of the more recent wars the US enjoined in.. and more about the invasion of Normandy, the battle of the Ardennes or the liberation of Auschwitz.

Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Dachau.. Are you not seeing that ugly militant specter is goose-stepping its way back into political vogue again?

Take a breath, step back and look at the NOW.

Not sure the downvotes are fair. You're certainly not wrong about the underlying reason that the US supported it.

But I do think it's a bit off base because it ignores the fact that this wasn't an attempt to ideologically spread communism, it was an attempt by one communist country (backed by two other much more powerful communist countries) to invade and force their style of authoritarian communism onto their neighbour.

Sure. And those communists had an army back by their powerful Communist ally invading...

Korea had nothing to do with France.

You're probably thinking of Vietnam. Although even that, to say it was "for the French" would be a massive exaggeration. French Indochina ended before the start of the Vietnam War (known locally as the American War) proper, and France regaining its former colonies was never on the table, no matter the outcome. American foreign policy at the time was staunchly anti-imperial. Or at least anti the form of explicit imperialism Europe had engaged in over the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries.

If your government fights against a fascist government, that does not make you antifa.

Antifa is proudly a far-left movement started by communists to fight the Nazi's directly, rather then centrist liberal take of 'defending the system'.

It has since evolved from those roots into a broader leftwing movement, that is inherently anti-capitalist as part of it's anti-fascism. And of which "tend to hold anti-authoritarian, anti-capitalist, and anti-state views".

While the soldiers on the shores of Normandy may have also been fighting our enemy, they were not us.

These people thought they are saving the world and were usually one of the "sacrifices" by the actual politicians doing all the bloodshed..

In reference to the NAZI generals.. They weren't the sacrificial pawns in the game so much as the brownshirts were.

Brownshirts that today have their parallels in the newly hired ICE agents.

Those agents are thinking they have qualified immunity - but that is only in the case where they do NOT violate any constitutional Amendments when they're arresting people.

Then they're open to prosecution.. and once the current Administration is no longer in power, (I think the healthcare subsidies being killed will be the tipping point, voters gonna get het up when memaw and pawpaw lose their lives because they couldn't afford the doctor anymore..) the snap-back to see the worst of them thrown in jail, is going to be firece.

No way, no how will any politician step in to help them.