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 https://twitter.com/Radical_Reggie

You might know Radical Reggie as the black guy who appears in videos with that creep Metal Jesus Rocks.  He also makes pretty boring videos about video games.  

But did you know that he’s also a veteran of the US army?  It’s right there in his Twitter description.  You can’t miss it.

Let’s see if he ever talked about it.

Oh baby.  He sure does.

https://twitter.com/Radical_Reggie/status/929255117026553856

Look at the melons on that woman.  That can’t be good in a combat situation.  Well, maybe it would distract the enemy just long enough for the other soldiers to get some shots off.

And that guy on the left is doing some kind of thug gangster pose.  Not what you want to see in a professional army.  Especially with those twig arms.  Even Betty Big Boobs over there could probably beat him in an arm wrestling contest.

The horntards all thank him for his service.

https://twitter.com/Radical_Reggie/status/982133721879867393

He reveals that he was in basic training in 2001.  And he was playing PlayStation at the time.  Sounds rough.  

Oh, here’s a short video where he talks about his army experiences.  With his mother.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4GCfTcQ0X8

He was working in fast food and retail after high school and he didn’t want to go to college because he didn’t want to be burdened with debt so he joined the army.  He says that the military pays for college so that was one of the main reasons why he joined.  

I’m not 100% sure how easy it is to get them to pay.  There are probably a bunch of caveats and exceptions.  I also don’t know how many years you have to be in the military.  But in any event, this isn’t the answer to anyone’s problems.  

As I’ve explained before, college in the US is largely a waste of time and money.  But why was he working at fast food and retail?  I know that people do it, there are millions of people who do this, but I somehow managed to never work in such places.  

My first job was delivering pizza.  Every day, I’d come home with a stack of cash.  Things are different now, of course, these apps have destroyed the industry and the drivers aren’t paid shit, but Reggie is about the same age as I am.  Pizza delivery was a viable job when he was a young man.  Why didn’t he do it?

He posts a picture of some group he was in and there sure are a lot of black people here.  Doesn’t this raise questions for him?  Why do so many black people join the military?  Institutional racism must be a factor.  Why feed this?  

Then he has pictures of him with a bunch of black fellow soldiers and the odd picture of him with some white woman on his lap.  This was in Korea, apparently.  No black women there, I guess.  And maybe the natives weren’t interested.

So that was his military experience.  He went to Korea, partied, drank a lot of alcohol, and had white women sitting on his lap.

Twenty years later, he still describes himself as “US Army Vet” and people thank him for his service.

What service?  What did he do that was so heroic?  The Korean War ended 50 years before he was there.  

He gets free pancakes for this shit at IHOP.  Why?  

You only see this bizarre veneration for the military in the US and possibly such bastions of freedom as China, North Korea, and if there are still fascist countries in South America, those too.  

Nobody in the UK describes themselves as military veterans.  Nobody cares.  Nobody would thank them for their service.  Nobody would give them free pancakes.  Because it’s not a jingoistic, militaristic country.  

It’s the same throughout Europe.  This veneration of the military is totally unheard of.  

In countries where they have conscription it’s even less of an issue because everybody joins the military.  Every guy, anyway.  So it’s expected.  And they all know what goes on in the military.  Nothing heroic.  Where’s the heroism in getting drunk and feeling a skank’s boobs?  

It’s a civic duty, no different from jury duty.  If you served on a jury, would you still put it on your Twitter profile twenty years later?  “Former Jury Member.”  Would you expect free food at your favourite chain family-style restaurants for the rest of your life?  Would you want people to thank you for your service?

It’s a fucking joke and it’s a damning indictment on what kind of country the US is.  Praising the military to insane, disgusting degrees.  It wasn’t always like this, of course.  This is a fairly recent phenomenon.  It started with the Gulf War.  And the US has been in wars of aggression ever since.  This isn’t coincidental.  

But thank you, Reggie, for having a good time with your friends while you were in Korea.  I’m sure that you drank a lot of beer and played a lot of PS1 games while you were there.  That’s very heroic of you.  If you’re ever visiting the UK, let me know and I’ll treat you to some pancakes.