#frag his commanding officer or fly into a lockheed martin facility

[psychotrenny]

I cannot emphasise how much I fucking despise the US military and everyone who supports it. I hate all Imperialist militaries, but as an Arch-Imperialist nation that dominates and exploits even other Imperialists I hold an especially deep hatred for the USA. I've felt this way for as long as I've been politically conscious; even as a teenager Liberal who hadn't yet come to terms with my own nation's atrocities I still hated the US. I am so sick of people treating some Yankee soldier as a kind of hero just because he did the bare fucking minimum and killed himself to disavow what is only the latest and most publicised atrocity of the most evil institution on the planet.

Like it was a useless death too; I can''t think of a single political cause that was advanced by self-immolation. If you already have people willing to commit atrocities so horrible that killing yourself painfully is a worthwhile response, and everyone with the power to act is sitting aside and allowing it to happen, what is adding one more body to the pile going to do? Like worst case scenario it'll be slightly embarrassing if your nationality, social status or skin colour means that your life is seen having greater worth more than those of the people being victimised, but as far as the ruling class is concerned there's no one who isn't ultimately expendable.

Like Israel has already killed so many actual US citizens, and not just in this current conflict. This includes both peace activists who put themselves in harms way and Palestinian-Americans who were just in the wrong place wrong time while visiting family. Even if we're dealing with the kind of people who don't care about the millions of murdered and tortured Palestinians and only take notice when someone from the First World gets killed, Israel has already gotten away with murder. What is killing yourself and naming them in the suicide note gonna do? The fact of the matter is that no liberation has been achieved by appealing to the better natures of the oppressors; at best the more moderate factions are compromised with after the radicals get too strong. If you consider yourself an opponent of Imperialism, then all killing yourself does is save them the cost of a bullet.