MASSIVE cope from soldiers and cops once they start masturbating about how they’re “warriors” and ad-libbing remote memories of romantic chivalry as self-aggrandising fantasy

soldiers aren’t warriors. they don’t follow an honorable code, do what they want–they follow orders. they don’t succeed through their individual heroism and martial skill, they are miniscule cogs in a war machine.

you know who is a warrior? a Taliban guerilla, taking up arms of their own accord, going unpaid, organizing autonomously, and dis-arming as it suits them. even a communist guerilla–though a military discipline is emphasized among them–has more in common with a warrior philosophy than these feckless cowards in the US military