Brian Amberg
Aug 9, 2017 · 6 min read

“I would never say that I an better than anyone, especially civilians.”

Unless they are civilians from DFAS who made sure you got paid for doing your job. Or unless they are civilian college students “just as dumb as all these millennial college kids”. Forgive me for assuming that when you insult millennial college kids you weren’t insulting civilians. My bad. I didn’t realize that millennial college kids are not by definition not in the infantry and serving on the front lines. Maybe you didn’t realize that college students are not on the front line because they’re too busy being in college. Or maybe you are just full of crap and can’t see how you have, many times just in arguing with me, presented yourself as being better than not just civilians but also better than 90% of those who serve in our military. Your use of the word “pog” does not demonstrate that you think you are better than me? In case you didn’t know “pog” stands for “People Other than Grunts”. That includes ALL people who are not grunts, civilian AND military. You either think I’m really stupid, or you just are not aware of your own statement in which you present yourself as a big shot while everyone else is unworthy. Using the term “pog” is also an insult to John the TIB, who is *also* not a grunt. Hypocrite.

“I ask for no praise…I am nobody.”

A “nobody” who writes blogs about his military service who “isn’t asking for praise” while writing on Medium about what a big-shot grunt he is and receiving praise for tales of daring? I’m not saying you should not publish your blogs (I’m a fan of soldier-written novels and stories), but since you do so, you seriously cannot claim to not be seeking praise or any other benefit related to having served this country. Well, you can do so but you’d be lying.

“you are too busy telling rich Americans that they didn’t “earn” their right to live in this country while people WHO DON’T EVEN LIVE HERE break in put us all at risk are just fine with you.”

Let me know when John the TIB does something useful for America. All he does is line his pockets. Do you think that people who weren’t born here are by definition unworthy? Let me know when John the TIB walks hundreds of miles through a dangerous desert, braves coyotes and rapists, in order to prove his love for America. He won’t and never would. If he was born rich in Mexico, as he was born rich here, he would have no reason to leave the land of his birth because he would not suffer when our foreign policy destroys his country (check out the IMF and how they created a lost decade in Mexico, all so billionaires like John could get more money). The top 1% are always provided for, no matter what. You’re defending a person who would never personally know what a callus is, whose only talent is in bribing congress to provide him with free money taken from the pockets of the poor and middle class. You’re sticking for a parasite, while claiming that those with the internal fortitude to brave a desert are by definition bad people. They’re not “rapists, murderers” as your Dear Leader claims. They are good and honest people, fleeing a bad situation that was CREATED BY US. In the absence of a 45-year-long drug war, there would not be out-of-control drug cartels in Mexico making it a dangerous place to live; and there would be far fewer immigrant-refugees. But if that happened, John the TIB would have been less fabulously wealthy which would hurt your feelers.

“I love my supply guy, and the cook, the medics, hell even the PAC clerk”

Other than when you’re insulting them for not being infantry or calling them “pogs” or “fobbits”, you mean? I guess REMF is out of fashion, as I haven’t heard you use that particular slur yet.

“And you want to talk about the Constitution and how I’m not honoring it by not sucking on the dick of Liberal fascism?”

You are disgracing everyone who has ever served in that uniform by using such language. I never asked you to touch anyone’s genitals. I didn’t ask you to do ANYTHING. You’re the one ordering ME around. You might understand the constitution better if you read it.

“you can infantilize blacks and other minorities all you want”

WTF? Infantilize? How is having common cause with fellow citizens who get murdered for daring to exercise 2nd Amendment rights “infantilizing”?

“I’m going to treat them as equals.” By ignoring video evidence of cops murdering them by shooting them in the back? By pretending they don’t have a point when they are upset that it actually must be declared that Black Lives Matter? They do, so you know. You’re not treating anyone as an equal when you turn your back on people who are murdered on a regular basis just for being black. And when you disparage anyone who gives a damn about ALL of our citizens, you actually open yourself up to charges of racism.

“good cuck allies”

So you know, the word “cuck” was invented to taunt conservatives whose wives were sleeping with black men. It is a means of conning people into being racist. That you are using such a term does not surprise me, given all the other things you have said. Do you wave around the Confederate Flag of Treason and Terrorism as well?

“You are the new Nazi”

Nazi has a specific meaning, it doesn’t mean “people who Danny P doesn’t like”. It is short for “national socialist”. You might want to study ww2 and the policies presented by the Nazi party, which are alarmingly close to modern conservatism, the movement you seem to be a part of. You can ignore that clear and present danger all you like, but patriots like myself will continue to call actual Nazis out as being actual Nazis. Occum’s Razer just cut Godwin’s Law in half. Look those up if you don’t know what I’m talking about.

“being a human doormat because you are a white male and you feel you need to “make space” for others who feel they are “less than.” “

I’m not a human doormat. I don’t know what you mean by “make space”. I just want the cops to stop murdering people for being black. I want the top 1% to stop taking advantage of people and to stop trying to divide us by color so we’ll hate one another instead of the true enemy (the worthless billionaire parasites like John the TIB). And if you think black folks see themselves as “less than” you probably have never actually met a black person. That you said so makes me wonder if you ever actually served in the military. Maybe you’re really, really old and served in the military prior to Truman desegregating it. But if you seriously served alongside black soldiers and your takeaway was that they feel they are “less than”, well, it must have been some Army other than the American one. Maybe you served in the Red Army? Red Army doesn’t have black soldiers, so that would make sense.

“The fact that you think that Trump is a puppet of Putin goes to show that people that know that they are smart can still be dumb as shit.”

That you can’t see it shows you to be naive. But we can both just wait until the investigation is complete, assuming Trump allows the investigation to continue. He already fired Comey over not wanting his Russian ties to be made known. He even said so in a tweet, right after everyone who worked for him went on teevee to claim that firing Comey had nothing to do with the Russia investigation. It would be a lot easier for you right-wingers to pull the wool over our eyes if your Dear Leader wasn’t so stupid.

“I can’t do this anymore…”

You sure can dish it out though. Not so good at taking it? That puts you in the same club as billionaire John the TIB. Oh, wait, never mind. His class won’t even associate with mere millionaires (let alone thousandaires and hundredaires like you and me), and sees you as a useful idiot and a pawn (not to mention, cannon fodder). So never mind, you’ll never be in the same club as the billionaires you defend.

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