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Mar 07 2012
Empire – How someone in my unit views America
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Steve
March 7, 2012 at 22:44 (UTC -4) Link to this comment
The Klingon Empire apparently. In alliance with the Illuminati of course
Reginald Selkirk
March 7, 2012 at 22:54 (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Why 18 stars?
Nathan
March 7, 2012 at 23:43 (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I think that’s the emblem for the United Federation of Planets. AA this might just be an elaborate Star Trek joke.
Steve
March 7, 2012 at 23:48 (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Sort of. But like the UN logo it’s based on, it uses (olive?) branches and not these things all the way around.
But he also got the Klingon emblems wrong. The left triangle in the trefoil should point downwards.
All the talk about blood, honor, conquest and death certainly sounds Klingon
'Tis Himself, OM
March 7, 2012 at 23:50 (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Why is the Combat Unicorn named Sadly?
Origuy
March 8, 2012 at 23:57 (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Named by the same person as Gladly, the Cross-Eyed Bear.
Randomfactor
March 8, 2012 at 00:08 (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Because of the saddle, silly.
Ramel
March 8, 2012 at 00:12 (UTC -4) Link to this comment
*applause*
StevoR
March 10, 2012 at 05:43 (UTC -4) Link to this comment
But that’s Thor’s horse!
The thundergod went for a ride
Upon his favourite filly
“I’m Thor!” he cried,
The Horse replied :
“you thorgot your thaddle thilly!”
sailor1031
March 8, 2012 at 12:50 (UTC -4) Link to this comment
You know of course that ‘blood and honour’ is the direct translation of ‘Blut und Ehre’ the motto of the Hitler Youth? The phrase was taken from the Title of the Nuernberg Race laws of 1935. As ‘blood and honour’ it is used by skinheads and neo-nazis.
Remebering the recent incident of a marine sniper team posing with an SS flag, sometimes I worry just a little about the military. Are they really that clueless?
resident_alien
March 12, 2012 at 03:54 (UTC -4) Link to this comment
That’s precisely what I was thinking.Even if it’s not a concious allusion to the Hitler Youth/Nazism,it comes from a sentiment/worldview to close to it for comfort.My stomach just tied itself into a knot…
bbgunn
March 8, 2012 at 16:10 (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Is that figure in the middle supposed to be the christian saint, St. Sebastian? According to Wikipedia, he’s one of the military martyrs and supposedly was shot full of arrows.
brucecoppola
March 8, 2012 at 17:40 (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Looks like a bundle of arrows tied in rope.
bbgunn
March 8, 2012 at 20:53 (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Naw, I still think it looks like a christian martyr happy to die for Gott und Vaterland.
BGT
March 10, 2012 at 02:34 (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Crap, I hope that whiteboard is satire.
Blut und Ehre. What a stupid thing for a US service member to ape.
Gordon
March 10, 2012 at 10:24 (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I prefer “Let us have faith that right makes might” myself.
bahrfeldt
March 11, 2012 at 16:53 (UTC -4) Link to this comment
“Blood and Honor”, “Death before Dishonor” are invariably lines foisted upon others by people with no honor and great fear of bleeding, let alone dying.
Pierce R. Butler
March 12, 2012 at 21:39 (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Why is the (eagle?) figure in the center wearing a suicide vest?
passerby
March 13, 2012 at 01:09 (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Ultimate proof of my nerdness: I saw that and immediately thought it belonged on a Space Marine battle standard.
You have the blind faith, macho slogans, bigotry and subservience to an Emperor. That’s the Adeptus Astartes in a nutshell, my friends.
And people wonder why I play Tau…*grumble*