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Perry, IA Created by Shawn Palek
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Anonymous 22h

Always loved this photograph my brother was a marine and when I went to his base to visit they had a sculpture of this and right next to it was a sculpture of Puerto Rican marines with their flag

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Anonymous 22h

is this still the photography community or did I somehow end up in the shortform nationalist propaganda community?

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 22h

aw nice. thank you for his service!

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 22h

spew your hate somewhere else

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 22h

as if supporting the murder of innocents in the Middle East isn’t “spewing hate”

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 22h

imperialist violence and bloodshed for profiteering purposes isn’t admirable or patriotism-inspiring, it’s barbaric and unspeakably shameful. I spit on this

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 20h

the artwork has nothing to do with that. if you have no idea what the historical context is behind the original photo, then you need to educate yourself.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 20h

we live in the 2020s. sentiment in favor of US military power is literally inextricable from support for violent imperialism, this has been true for decades at this point. the context of the original photo doesn’t mean glorification of US military imagery gets to exist in a good-natured vacuum. it still functions as insidious nationalist propaganda and you are quite clearly slurping that shit up. educate your own self on semiotics perhaps!

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 18h

It’s literally a memorial for marines that died in ww2 fighting japan after they attacked the United States and raped and killed 16millilon women children and men in asia and the pacific theater your dumb

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 18h

You know that the last two holding that ohoto where Navajo marine code talkers and volunteers

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 18h

It has to be tiring thinking like this all the time and being as miserable as you

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 17h

are you still yapping bruh

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