Thursday, October 20, 2011

The only good Marines are Conservative Marines.

FresnoGrifter knows what I like. He's linked to some excellent threads in the comments. Not just crazy, but the kind of crazy that teaches me new things about Freepers.

Case in point, Marines. Some of the most strident Freepers are Marines. (Or Dentists, for some reason.) There is a whole culture around how Marines are the epitome of Real American citizenship.

There have been a whole drama about some Freepers saying "Ex-Marine" where in reality, you never leave the corps, it's "Former Marine." Only John Murtha is an Ex-Marine.

Freepers handle the one exception of Murtha pretty well by just piling hatred on him so you can't see that Marine part. But then a Marine shows up at the occupy protests.

This oughta be good:

real saxophonist is too sure this guy is faking to look it up:


Yeah. Button up your cammie blouse, roll the sleeves up properly, shave, and TAKE OFF THE RIBBONS, and I might believe you’re a Marine. Not.
Tenacious 1 hopes he's not really a Marine.


I hope someone finds out he is another imposter. What an embarrassment to our nation’s military personnel. Most our men and women in military service are honorable, humble, upstanding and classy. There are bad apples in every crowd.

That said, he is intitled to his opinion and he is doing nothing illegal. It is a freedom we cherish (as conservatives) whether the agree with the use of free speech or not.

I was secretly hoping an officer would stumble and fall in a way that caused his can of pepper spray to accidentally discharge in this guys eye.
dead just writes him off as crazy:


I wish him well, but I hope he's getting help.
He seems a bit batty. Glassy-eyed and repeating the same phrases over and over again, like he's arguing with somebody who's not arguing back.
oh8eleven notes that some marines are just bad:


in the Corps they are (or were back in the day) known as "ten percenters." That is, the 10% of your unit who were flat-out screw ups.
They were always the $hitbirds, the ones who never got the message, always late to formation, AWOL. couldn't shoot straight, had their own agendas, and more importantly, the ones who would get other Marines killed in combat.
GunPkrBkr sums it all up:


Either this guy is a phony or he has mental problems. Barack Hussein Obama, mmm, mmmmm, mmmmm!
Seems Marines that fail to be conservative must be insane.

3 comments:

  1. As a veteran I laugh at the Freepers. They know as well as I do that there are a lot of liberals in the service.

    Did any of those running for the Republican Presidential nomination serve their country in uniform?

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  2. Nothing novel I can add to this as it follows the Freepers' usual MO of demonization and ignorance.

    But, I do get a laugh at Freepers again using the same tactics that the "DemonRats" use (to be fair, *all* wingnuts engage in this), calling the guy mentally ill because of an opposing viewpoint.

    It's an almost literally Stalin-era Soviet tactic. I have no doubt if Freepers could fulfill their fantasies they don't bring up in polite company, they'd be the first ones to put folks in re-education camps.

    I also get a LOL whenever Freepers start talking like they're military experts, talking about the 10%'ers and the like. Guarantee you that half the Freepers that claim a military background are either outright lying or embellishing. Which makes their comments all the more ironic.

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  3. That second comment is almost normal and accepting, and starts to give you a bit of hope that maybe freepers can adjust and understand a changing society.

    And then he crushes that hope by saying he wishes someone would accidentally mace the dude.

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