oh man i need to see inception

[augustbird]

Man I have been fairly crap at keeping up with the flist recently--I read a lot of what you guys write on my phone when I'm walking everywhere but I hate typing lj comments on it so I always end up thinking "I really need to reply to this when I'm on a laptop with decent internet connection," but by the time I get to laptop with decent internet

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[legit]

I'm just worried that the general reaction to this won't just be military leaders have been lying to us but that it's also going to extend to look at the disturbed psyche and immoral decisions of these soldiers without any consideration as to the conditions that they're in...

That was the first thought I had when I heard about the wikileaks thing. Also, I feel like while it's a 'great-stick-it-to-the-man' gesture, I feel like the leaks makes us, as a superpower, look like a bunch of idiots that can't keep their info in line. I mean I think it's kinda cool and stuff, but at the same time, the government can't tell you everything...Idk, I'm similarly conflicted about it since I do think it's interesting yet, you know, our rep, it's probably just getting worse.

Also YAY for Mafia!AUs THERE BETTER BE A FEDORA SOMEWHERE--btw, have you had a chance to start Baccano! yet?

[augustbird]

ugh SERIOUSLY RIGHT? the first thing i read was like THE WAR IS GRIMMER THAN WE ORIGINALLY THOUGHT~ and the next thing i read was basically like WE SHOULD NOT CONDONE MANY OF THE ACTIONS OF THE US TROOPS IN AFGHANISTAN!!!1! and i don't know i just--

i just hope that good things come out of this, that poor command gets revealed and they do something about it. somewhere i remember reading that maybe this is the start of the end of the occupation of afghanistan and honestly i hope that's the case, i really do--but at the same time, i don't want it to be in a way that completely destroys any semblance of trust that civilians have in the military. i honestly hope that the good that the new information does outweighs the negative ramifications.

I feel like the leaks makes us, as a superpower, look like a bunch of idiots that can't keep their info in line.THIS. THIS SO MUCH. because seriously, carrying information out on a PRETEND LADY GAGA CD? it sounds straight out of a goddamn movie. HOW IS THIS REAL LIFE

[legit]

...that poor command gets revealed and they do something about it.

Lol all I could think of was GEN. KILL. But yeah, I don't know I think the leak is still pretty negative, like I'm hoping and all, but I can't bring myself to read any of it because I know that it's not meant for me, and so yeah. that and I just know I'll end up being depressed

...carrying information out on a PRETEND LADY GAGA CD? it sounds straight out of a goddamn movie. HOW IS THIS REAL LIFE?

WAIT WAIT, THE ARTICLE I READ NEVER MENTIONED THAT. damn you android apps YOU LEAVE OUT VITAL INFO That is horrifyingly amazing...for some odd reason.

THEY DIDN'T HAVE SLOAN'S BOOK AT THE LIBRARY AND I'M BROKE ;____; BUT, I get paid when I visit MICHIGAN SO I'LL TRY AND GET IT THEN OR IDK IN THE AIRPORT. Also, also YAY. LET ME KNOW HOW YOU LIKE IT. IT'S KINDA CONFUSING AT FIRST, TBH. BUT ONCE IT'S EPISODE NINE, SHIT HITS THE FAN.

[rileyout]

I'm trying to avoid the whole topic of the wikileaks. The whole thing makes my head spin and I'm really not sure about how I feel about it.

Also,

This fic will be completely epic.

Beyond epic even.

[augustbird]

seriously right? SO MANY CONFLICTING FEELINGS ABOUT IT.

dude.

this goddamn fic. I AM SO EXCITED TO BE WRITING IT. like holy crap SO EXCITED.

DO YOU HAVE ANY IN THE WORKS ATM? :D

[rileyout]

Awe bless you

I'm trying to write this fic were Eugene gets off the train with Snafu because he's an emotional wreck and only our boy Snafu can help him. It's largely made up of pretty confusing sentenses and lots of commas so I don't has to start new sentenses. Hopefully it will be awesome but we shall have to wait and see because I'm not where near were I want to be with it and I want to write fic were Eugene thinks Snafu is stalking him but he's really not

[augustbird]

lololol COMMAS. i like to switch them up with dashes and then i end up switching up too many of them with dashes and then i end up abusing the hell out of dashes at the end. 8|

really excited for this fic though! :D I ALWAYS APPROVE OF CREEPER!SNAFU--EVEN PRETEND!CREEPER!SNAFU

[la_petite_singe]

I'm just worried that the general reaction to this won't just be military leaders have been lying to us but that it's also going to extend to look at the disturbed psyche and immoral decisions of these soldiers without any consideration as to the conditions that they're in and augh idk I am just not very articulate about this at all.

Yeah, I definitely know what you mean. This sounds insane, but my wild new love for TP and BoB and everything is actually totally making me have this moral dilemma or something, because last I checked, I was a pacifist/semi-Quaker who never approved of war, and I know I definitely get very upset & uncomfortable hearing details about the current war (even just watching a few eps of "Over There" for a certain person really disturbed me), but then suddenly I'm reading a TON of WWII shit and it feels completely different. And obviously it is completely different, and reading history != totally thinking war is awesome, but I just don't know if I'm allowed to pick and choose what I "approve" of, and that feels

[augustbird]

aksjdfkalsd OH MY GOD. it does not sound insane at all because to some extent, i am experiencing the SAME THING. i mean, i've never always been a huge pacifist or anything but i've always been kind of like "DDD: war, why can't we just talk it out?" and to some extent i still feel the same way but for more "oh man, i really feel for these soldiers & i know they volunteered to do this and all, but it must be hard and i wish it wasn't as hard CAN WE PLEASE JUST END THIS WAR BEFORE MORE OF THEM GET HURT???" reasons. because i feel to a certain extent, international media (and even a lot of domestic media) likes to play off of us hegemony and i feel as if a majority of people (and i used to fall prey to this thought) see the need to end the war as a way to curb the excess us power and they think that the us needs to step back on the arrogance instead and they just. don't see the human side of things. and it's so hard when all media is doing is spewing out statistics and never giving stories of real people with real lives sacrificing

[la_petite_singe]

and they just. don't see the human side of things.

Eeeexactly. I was just talking to someone at ontd_political about this--I was saying that I feel like getting rid of the draft had a HUGE impact on the 'personality' of this war and how the fact that everyone's who's there basically chose to be there just...makes it different, somehow, and they replied with a comment about the 'poverty draft' and a quote from Noam Chomsky that said it all, like, WAY better than I did, and made the point about how these days, the majority of people aren't personally, directly affected by the war, and it's sort of this polarizing social effect and it's one thing to agree or disagree with something when it's just sort of far-off numbers with no faces attached...yeah, no, we definitely find it easier to talk statistics and numbers rather than individuals with lives and families. And while I understand why we do that, I still really really don't like it. It feels callous. It makes me think of Basilone & how he basically became this symbol for everyone to look up to

[augustbird]

noam chomsky oh my god that name brings up so many terrible memories of writing seminar that i want to repress forever. BUT ON A NONTANGENTIAL NOTE, damn you drew the perfect metaphor with basilone there & i agree completely and i seriously need to rewatch ep 8.

also SO MUCH OF WHAT YOU SAID. i agree wholeheartedly about adopting war fandoms suddenly making you turn around and rethink all of the impressions that you previously held about war and askdlfjsdf it's a hard subject to breach--it's so much harder than abortion or gay marriage. and goddamn, sometimes i feel extremely extremely uncomfortable when i try to use it in a setting in my writing, like i feel like i'm somehow downplaying things, that it's absolutely impossible for me to grasp even 1/1000th of what it was like without being there and i can't even being to do it justice and aklsdjfasldf then everything cycles back to reevaluating my standpoint on it and wow why couldn't we have chosen easier things to be interested in, right?

[rivlee]

Like you, I'm v. torn on the whole leak. On the one hand, from the historian perspective, that's a massive amount of primary documents released in the contemporary time and not, like, 20 years later. It's official military documents, so to speak, and that amount of information at once rarely happens

[augustbird]

Still, I don't want these Vets and people involved in the whole operation for the past nine years to get scapegoated like what happened during/after Vietnam. Some people call bullshit on the whole "fog of war" thing, but until you're in that situation, you cannot and will not ever know how you, and the sanctioned-government training you've recieved, will react.this. i think this exactly sums up how i feel about this leak in a far more articulate manner than i could ever manage

[theirempires]

INCEPTION IS AMAZING A;DLSJA;DSF. It is seriously one of the most impressive movies that I've ever seen, and the idea of being able to manipulate people's dreams for your own devices is SO MIND-BLOWING OMG. (in a completely non-sadistic manner, of course) 8D

<33 Thanks for always taking the time to comment on my stupid ridiculous posts, especially when you're so busy, but hahah I can definitely relate about always getting distracted. Sometimes I think that I might have ADD or something LOL

[augustbird]

EVERYONE KEEPS FANGIRLING ABOUT IT man i will have to drag one of my hs friends to go see it when i'm home. EVEN IF THEY'VE ALREADY SEEN IT. 8|

<33 dude yeah, with you there on the add. i don't think i ever really truly focus until like the week before finals hahahaha.

THERE NEEDS TO BE LIKE 20 MORE HOURS IN THE DAY SO I CAN DO EVERYTHING I WANT TO, JUST SAYIN. >_>

[theirempires]

THERE NEEDS TO BE LIKE 20 MORE HOURS IN THE DAY SO I CAN DO EVERYTHING I WANT TO

^THIS. I think that there should be a multi-tasking machine so that we can eat, do work, write, and chill all at the same time. THAT WOULD BE AMAZING. 8D