Lilani said:
First my uncle, who as soon as he got a Facebook account became more political and more religious than I ever saw him behave in real-life. He shares all sorts of snarky pictures from political groups, and on Sundays he posts all sorts of YouTube videos of old gospel and religious bands (as opposed to actually getting up and going to church, which he stopped attending years ago). But a couple of weeks ago he shared a picture which really burned me up. It was a bumper sticker which read "The government is not your baby's daddy." To top it off, the group he shared it from was called "Silence is consent." Who the fuck even joins a group like that? I wanted so bad to reply with, "No it's not, but it sure is interested in what we do with our reproductive systems." But, I figured waging war on my dad's brother would not in any way end well, so I refrained.
Yeah... crazy FB uncles are the worst. I come from a family of hunters, and my uncle keeps posting pictures of his kills.
I wish I were joking.
Other than that, someone posted a status that basically said "to all those saying soldiers should get footballer's wages, you shouldn't want to make war so financially viable."
Beside all the people pointing out that since the dawn of time, war has always been a big money free for all, I pointed out that when people say that, it's meant in the way that they deserve that money for putting their lives on the line for us, as opposed to a bunch of man children playing a game for a living.
I got this reply from some girl, basically saying "defending, or killing innocent people?"
This did, in fact trigger an argument, and it basically boiled down to her saying anyone who ever killed was just stupid. Personally, I'm training to join the Royal Marines, and I just wanted to say "you know what? Get the fuck off your pedestal, you high and mighty self righteous little c**t. You've never been in any situation where you might need to make the decision whether to kill someone. You're just passing out pseudo-philosophical pretentious generalization as fucking gospel. How dare you pass off the act of killing in any circumstance in black and white, just to put yourself above any soldier or war hero who ever had to kill?"
But I didn't, because you know how the pseudo-philosophical kiddies rally to each other's ill thought out points on Facebook, and I'd never hear the bloody end of it.
