• @zieg989
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    I am surprised at how many people do not get it. In military you cannot not comply with the orders, especially whan there is clearly nothing criminal with it. The guys doing sloppy marching is pretty much the only agency they have and the only way to protest and boycot that ridiculous parade.

    • @tazeycrazy@feddit.uk
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      132 minutes ago

      There was a brass band that was resposabal for playing to state visits. if a foreign visitor came who was not popular they would play the national anthem out of tune and out of time. The visitor would have to stand or salute while seeing there song be murdered infront of them.

    • Oniononon
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      9814 hours ago

      This. NATO has us troops stationed all over europe. They marched just fine during european parades.

      • @blazeknave@lemmy.world
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        4413 hours ago

        It’s the entire discourse online, mostly stemming from veterans on social media. Literally saying the same as comment above you.

        • mathemachristian [he/him]
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          Yeah seppo veterans are rarely blindly patriotic and regularly offer genuine feedback for their country and its “servicepeople” (by this they only mean their boots).

      • 1ostA5tro6yne
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        i don’t give a shit either way but it makes far more sense that it was in protest than that all of those soldiers are too incompetent to march properly. insisting it must be incompetence because you want to think bad things about the us military is the real cope.