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Now that you mention it...
May. 26th, 2012 06:34 pmToday is Memorial Day in the US. It's a day in which we honor our dead soldiers, but also anyone else you know who happens to be dead. A lot of attention is paid to the soldier part.
I have an aunt who is fond of posting Support the Troops macros on Facebook. I don't know why she's so obsessed, we aren't a big military family- my dad is a former Marine who never saw overseas action, and my uncle was in the Coast Guard (a very admirable group of people but...) And you know, nobody reading her stuff has any problem with supporting the troups, even if they don't like war itself. You'd have to be a really unrepentent jerk to hate on the people who are actually dying in a war. So repeatedly reminding people of the sacrifices our troops have made "for our freedom" begins to feel seriously like a guilt trip, merely acknowledging that you don't have an argument with the idea is not enough. You must CARE AS MUCH AS SHE DOES.
It's that thing where someone is getting all passionately defensive of an argument that no one around them is actually on the other side of and that gets supremely annoying.
Today, she posted a link to an article about the flag, and a macro that said Don't Like My American Flag? Leave America.
Nobody had a problem with your flag- 90 percent of the people on her flist are most likely from the US and even live in the same part of the same state. And I don't recall anyone posting any anti flag stuff (although it's Memorial Day, not fricking Flag Day or the Fourth of July). But if there's a reason people are finding her love of the flag and the American Soldier irritating it's because she posted SEVEN GUILT TRIPPY MACROS IN ONE DAY ON THE SUBJECT! It's a non stop assault of macros clogging up our flists and I'd be annoyed no matter what the subject if the posts contain no actual content or useful information.
Why won't she stop? I don't understand.
I have an aunt who is fond of posting Support the Troops macros on Facebook. I don't know why she's so obsessed, we aren't a big military family- my dad is a former Marine who never saw overseas action, and my uncle was in the Coast Guard (a very admirable group of people but...) And you know, nobody reading her stuff has any problem with supporting the troups, even if they don't like war itself. You'd have to be a really unrepentent jerk to hate on the people who are actually dying in a war. So repeatedly reminding people of the sacrifices our troops have made "for our freedom" begins to feel seriously like a guilt trip, merely acknowledging that you don't have an argument with the idea is not enough. You must CARE AS MUCH AS SHE DOES.
It's that thing where someone is getting all passionately defensive of an argument that no one around them is actually on the other side of and that gets supremely annoying.
Today, she posted a link to an article about the flag, and a macro that said Don't Like My American Flag? Leave America.
Nobody had a problem with your flag- 90 percent of the people on her flist are most likely from the US and even live in the same part of the same state. And I don't recall anyone posting any anti flag stuff (although it's Memorial Day, not fricking Flag Day or the Fourth of July). But if there's a reason people are finding her love of the flag and the American Soldier irritating it's because she posted SEVEN GUILT TRIPPY MACROS IN ONE DAY ON THE SUBJECT! It's a non stop assault of macros clogging up our flists and I'd be annoyed no matter what the subject if the posts contain no actual content or useful information.
Why won't she stop? I don't understand.
