At the store today I snuck up on my wife and got uncomfortably close before she realized it was me, and all I got was a ‘ima pepper spray you next time’
Knowing what the US military does to the places we send them to doesn't make this heartwarming... It's like seeing an IDF soldier returning to hug their wife. Obviously not all US soldiers suck. They just chose to fight for a country that does, in fact, suck. And they don't deserve honor for that.
Looks to me like she actually slipped with her feet/lost her footing on the red brick door threshold and more or less slumped against him because of that.
Its very cute but its also a reminder that the us destabilized the entire middle east for a pipeline from saudi and because ghaddafi wanted to sell oil in rubles. fuck your wars.
Here's a crazy idea... DON'T JOIN THE FUCKING MILITARY ! "I've missed you so much daddy, what have you been doing?"... oh... just slaughtering poverty stricken families... you know... women & children, their fathers & grandparents. Killing their pets and burning their crops... Destroying whole communities and their way of life....Normal US military stuff.
The US military is the most successful organization in American history for pulling the poor out of poverty and into the middle class. So while you can rail about its existence it is the best way out of poverty for most people.
It's less about being a win for the military, and moreso the sinister design of this country's economic system. Keep people desperate for long enough and those benefits start looking very enticing. That's how they got me.
Sure, sure. But you see how that's wrong though. I'm not religious but killing people is wrong. Bombing their homes is wrong. Killing their leader and installing one that will let the US drill for oil is wrong.
I’m dating myself, but Bob Barker’s Truth or Consequences show would work with the services to put service members and their families together for a surprise back in the Sixties.
Depends... if he just deployed to an American city to suppress constitutional rights and defend kidnapping by the current regime, then the most tragic thing is that he returned at all.
Guess what, there's always been a lawful means to deport illegals. Celebrating people being denied due process says more about you than anything. Keep licking those jackboots though.
Don't know any. Do know some naturalized citizens and legal residents who have had to take steps to avoid being targeted because they don't actually care if you're legal. Grabbing people from immigration courts to send them to a concentration camp (ice facility if you like your euphemisms) is literally denial of due process. Plenty of echo chambers for fascist shitstains out there, so you're wasting time gaslighting here. Go find people who slept through history class for your bullshit.
True. For every dead American soldier in the last US Invasion in Iraq, there were 200 Iraqis killed. You often see how US veterans return emotionally damaged but forget how many lives they have taken and how many families they have destroyed.
Rather few of them. American soldiers don't see combat. It's all a big fascist jobs program for the otherwise uneducated and unemployable inhabitants of the Red States, giving up liberty for economic security and all.
Ill give you an honest answer since we share a chosen cause in Palestine. Over the course of my 21 years i engaged the enemy on too many occasions to count. My aspergers enhanced memory allows me to remember most of those faces. The truth is you never know but you never stop asking yourself. You hope that every individual you kill is the next Osama Bin Laden but they could just as easily be a goat herder forced by the Taliban to fight. Freedom does have enemies, there are men who seek to kill 1/
And destroy in our countries simply because we are infidels and they believe its their duty. Whilst i do believe that quite a few Islamic "terror" groups and nations who fund it do so because they have legitimate anger towards us for past actions, there is still a moral obligation as a servant of my nation and my people to makesure they dont get the revenge they seek. I mean if the Taliban wanted to blow up congress or the houses of Parliament I think most of us would not only understand but 2/
Probably send them a fruit basket and thank you card. Unfortunately they dont seek to avenge themselves against those who harmed them, they go after soft targets, innocents, and we cant allow that no matter how justified they may feel or how sympathetic we may feel toward their rage. Im not the person you call to end the cycle, thats above my paygrade, I can recognise there is a cycle and it needs to be broken but my job at its most basic level is to stop them killing you for something your 3/
Dad or uncle or grandad did to them. Then it becomes someone else's duty to stop their kids from going after my kids for what I did. How does it end? Ive no idea, I suppose it takes someone who loves humanity more than their family. Someone who can forgo revenge and strive for peace despite personal loss. Thats an exceptionally rare quality sadly, revenge is human, its a natural human impulse, its arguably even healthy. I dont know how you stop that. 4
Man, I am sorry to tell you, but you got deeply manipulated. And you took lives for it. You were the invader in a foreign country who defended themselves. You didn't fight for your country, but for the capitalist interests of fascists and rich people. You don't even have a democracy in your own country but think you will gain freedom by killing "enemies" around the world. There are better ways.
You're not entirely wrong and not entirely right either. There are enemies out there who simply desire to destroy us because they believe their scripture tells them to. Some are drawn to groups like the Taliban or Hezbollah because of things we've done and its important to acknowledge that, but its also undeniable that some groups do just want to kill you.
Yes they want, but the US is the huge agressor. If you look at all casualties you always see that it's the Americans who kill most people. Like there were 3k horrible deaths in 9/11. But in return the US started wars against Afghanistan and Iraq and killed 1.2 millions humans. Telling the world lies about fighting for freedom in foreign countries, while the American people shoot around 3k people monthly among themselves. Chances are higher to be shot by your neighbor than by enemies or in war
Another unpopular opinion: these are orphan crushing machine videos. The reunions are great, but they wouldn't be needed if the armed forces weren't the only option for many destitute people, or if needless global conflict over riches and egos wasn't as prevalent.
Further unpopular opinion it's uncomfortable to watch such an intimate moment and if it were you seeing your loved one for the first time in years would you really want it to go viral so everyone can share it? It's weird how our society sells snapshots of other peoples intimacy and acts like it's deep, it's not and it makes me uncomfortable just let them enjoy their moment in peace
neospor1n
At the store today I snuck up on my wife and got uncomfortably close before she realized it was me, and all I got was a ‘ima pepper spray you next time’
RainbowAmoeba
Someone is always cutting onions when military homecomings are playing. Dogs, kids, families always onions.
NicronusPrime
Do not unmute.
AyatollahBahloni
sindail
https://media0.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1bGQ3MnRjdm40dndlcHgxZjZsNjY5YjF4NWxvOTY5azQzY3R0cDRvdSZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/9PxJYXAuR8QXm/200w.webp
JustAwkwardJenny
Why this app making me cry today
lospaturno
how sad that people who love each other must be kept separated by jobs
youareagreatguybut
Hi honey, I am home taking a break from exploding venezuelan fishing boats and murdering survivors with a second missile. Let's have some fun tonight.
RenaissanceFaireMan
ThingsThatDontJustifyGenocide
Are we really just posting warcriminal propaganda stuff, now?
Y'all getting taken for a ride by the nazis. christ.
Pro-military shit in the middle of all this fascism is just nazi shit, seriously.
billytense
Sequel to the folgers commercial?
fahd75
🥰🥰🥰
skibitybebop
I don't have one family member that I would ever be this happy to see..
REOJackwagon
Plot twist, they've never met
TheGoodKevin
She just really likes a man in uniform
101Medic
That sweet, sweet TRICARE.
ivymantled69
CAN THEY do one for deadbeat parents who left years ago? Then they show up at the strip club.
YeOlRazzleDazzle
Knowing what the US military does to the places we send them to doesn't make this heartwarming... It's like seeing an IDF soldier returning to hug their wife.
Obviously not all US soldiers suck. They just chose to fight for a country that does, in fact, suck. And they don't deserve honor for that.
trumpypumpyinyourrumpy
Girl in the stripey shorts, uh lets wait until tonight and not in front of everyone
Lokify
I thought she was trying to pick him up.
Glenalth
They gonna' wrassle.
ministryofpeace
Honestly looks more like some sort of fear/relief response
TanithRosenbaum
Looks to me like she actually slipped with her feet/lost her footing on the red brick door threshold and more or less slumped against him because of that.
JoeT85
Nah, he was getting suplexed.
CyberHexx
Literally trying to pick him up over her shoulder. Lol
wouldClimbForCash
Skipped leg day.
angelicwhiskers
Do unmute for Céline Dion! 🎶 👑 💐 💖✨
xo66nt
Its very cute but its also a reminder that the us destabilized the entire middle east for a pipeline from saudi and because ghaddafi wanted to sell oil in rubles. fuck your wars.
zagibu
He wanted to establish a new currency called Dinar-Gold.
xo66nt
also
Shaukhan12
Just wait we about to do the same in Venezuela
TungstenOrbital
We know
carbonr1
Here's a crazy idea... DON'T JOIN THE FUCKING MILITARY ! "I've missed you so much daddy, what have you been doing?"... oh... just slaughtering poverty stricken families... you know... women & children, their fathers & grandparents. Killing their pets and burning their crops... Destroying whole communities and their way of life....Normal US military stuff.
PorterPickUp
The US military is the most successful organization in American history for pulling the poor out of poverty and into the middle class. So while you can rail about its existence it is the best way out of poverty for most people.
Eridith
It's less about being a win for the military, and moreso the sinister design of this country's economic system. Keep people desperate for long enough and those benefits start looking very enticing. That's how they got me.
carbonr1
Sure, sure. But you see how that's wrong though. I'm not religious but killing people is wrong. Bombing their homes is wrong. Killing their leader and installing one that will let the US drill for oil is wrong.
Fendeezy
Some join out of necessity. I've seen plenty enlist because they got their SO pregnant and minimum wage wasn't going to cut it.
DarthWaiterSE
Or there were zero options for higher education other than lifelong crippling debt.
thechosenjack8
I did this once, and showed up in Batman footie PJs complete with cowl. It still makes my family laugh years later.
RockOnDownTown
100% AI
LtColonelSmythe
I’m dating myself, but Bob Barker’s Truth or Consequences show would work with the services to put service members and their families together for a surprise back in the Sixties.
fahd75
🤍🤍🤍
Fandango1978
These people all seem real appreciative of these people who are coming to see them after helping ICE in the USA
VinnyVeritas
Awww ... turning a private moment into social media shit you should be ashamed of....
WhiskyBravo
that last one practically dove into the position
SternLecturePlumbing
Don’t fall for these. They are still propaganda
Xerxes4242
Depends... if he just deployed to an American city to suppress constitutional rights and defend kidnapping by the current regime, then the most tragic thing is that he returned at all.
TeelMoobeel
sea lime Dijon
spaghettiThunderbolt
Keep seething at illegals being lawfully detained and deported.
Xerxes4242
Guess what, there's always been a lawful means to deport illegals. Celebrating people being denied due process says more about you than anything. Keep licking those jackboots though.
spaghettiThunderbolt
They're not being denied due process. You're literally just mad that your precious illegals are being deported like they should be.
Xerxes4242
Don't know any. Do know some naturalized citizens and legal residents who have had to take steps to avoid being targeted because they don't actually care if you're legal. Grabbing people from immigration courts to send them to a concentration camp (ice facility if you like your euphemisms) is literally denial of due process. Plenty of echo chambers for fascist shitstains out there, so you're wasting time gaslighting here. Go find people who slept through history class for your bullshit.
FreePalestineAndTheWorldFromIsrael
Unpopular opinion: I often wonder how many of these soldiers orphaned children and torn apart families in the countries theyre sent to destroy.
ThM1ck
With any luck, all of them.
Dybidude5
True. For every dead American soldier in the last US Invasion in Iraq, there were 200 Iraqis killed. You often see how US veterans return emotionally damaged but forget how many lives they have taken and how many families they have destroyed.
Someshithead241
Probably as many orphaned children and torn apart families as they've left behind and never came back to.
ThingsThatDontJustifyGenocide
Don't be nice about it.
These videos are ALWAYS military-propaganda shit.
And now, in the fascist takeover of the USA, it's nazi-shit.
zweifel
Rather few of them. American soldiers don't see combat. It's all a big fascist jobs program for the otherwise uneducated and unemployable inhabitants of the Red States, giving up liberty for economic security and all.
FrancsTireur
Ill give you an honest answer since we share a chosen cause in Palestine. Over the course of my 21 years i engaged the enemy on too many occasions to count. My aspergers enhanced memory allows me to remember most of those faces. The truth is you never know but you never stop asking yourself. You hope that every individual you kill is the next Osama Bin Laden but they could just as easily be a goat herder forced by the Taliban to fight. Freedom does have enemies, there are men who seek to kill 1/
FrancsTireur
And destroy in our countries simply because we are infidels and they believe its their duty. Whilst i do believe that quite a few Islamic "terror" groups and nations who fund it do so because they have legitimate anger towards us for past actions, there is still a moral obligation as a servant of my nation and my people to makesure they dont get the revenge they seek. I mean if the Taliban wanted to blow up congress or the houses of Parliament I think most of us would not only understand but 2/
FrancsTireur
Probably send them a fruit basket and thank you card. Unfortunately they dont seek to avenge themselves against those who harmed them, they go after soft targets, innocents, and we cant allow that no matter how justified they may feel or how sympathetic we may feel toward their rage. Im not the person you call to end the cycle, thats above my paygrade, I can recognise there is a cycle and it needs to be broken but my job at its most basic level is to stop them killing you for something your 3/
FrancsTireur
Dad or uncle or grandad did to them. Then it becomes someone else's duty to stop their kids from going after my kids for what I did. How does it end? Ive no idea, I suppose it takes someone who loves humanity more than their family. Someone who can forgo revenge and strive for peace despite personal loss. Thats an exceptionally rare quality sadly, revenge is human, its a natural human impulse, its arguably even healthy. I dont know how you stop that. 4
iusedtodream
That's a lot of words to say "I feel guilty"
Dybidude5
Man, I am sorry to tell you, but you got deeply manipulated. And you took lives for it. You were the invader in a foreign country who defended themselves. You didn't fight for your country, but for the capitalist interests of fascists and rich people.
You don't even have a democracy in your own country but think you will gain freedom by killing "enemies" around the world.
There are better ways.
FrancsTireur
You're not entirely wrong and not entirely right either. There are enemies out there who simply desire to destroy us because they believe their scripture tells them to. Some are drawn to groups like the Taliban or Hezbollah because of things we've done and its important to acknowledge that, but its also undeniable that some groups do just want to kill you.
Dybidude5
Yes they want, but the US is the huge agressor. If you look at all casualties you always see that it's the Americans who kill most people.
Like there were 3k horrible deaths in 9/11. But in return the US started wars against Afghanistan and Iraq and killed 1.2 millions humans.
Telling the world lies about fighting for freedom in foreign countries, while the American people shoot around 3k people monthly among themselves.
Chances are higher to be shot by your neighbor than by enemies or in war
Darkwell
Another unpopular opinion: these are orphan crushing machine videos. The reunions are great, but they wouldn't be needed if the armed forces weren't the only option for many destitute people, or if needless global conflict over riches and egos wasn't as prevalent.
Snooj
Let's further the unpopular opinion: Many of the tears are the "I'm glad you aren't dead" tears. Kids shouldn't have to go through that.
historymemesandstuff
Further unpopular opinion it's uncomfortable to watch such an intimate moment and if it were you seeing your loved one for the first time in years would you really want it to go viral so everyone can share it? It's weird how our society sells snapshots of other peoples intimacy and acts like it's deep, it's not and it makes me uncomfortable just let them enjoy their moment in peace
DancingSwine
”But... they had oil...” - us leader