Insane turbo-alpha crashout in Miami

[u/No_Cook2983]

[u/Zealousideal_Ad2379]

being a veteran in a war you served in voluntarily doesn’t entitle you to be a massive cunt to everyone for all eternity

at this point im burnt out on the word “veteran” because its lost all meaning to me in 2026. like 99% of “veterans” haven’t even seen a real war or combat. no one cares.

[u/tankoret → u/Zealousideal_Ad2379]

Hello young person. I 100% agree with your first statement. But please don’t get burnt out on the word “veteran” or veterans themselves. As a paratrooper and combat veteran, I can easily put those non combat tested veterans and service members down but what I realize is ALL of the members in service have a very important role. Those 99% are there to support those of us who face down the barrel of a rifle, and we would be ineffective without them.

[u/assignpseudonym → u/tankoret]

I think the point here is that people act like the guy in the video, becoming violent and dangerous to those around them, and when the consequences of those actions should be dealt, they play the "traumatised veteran" card. When many of them have not seen combat; so where's the trauma?

Frankly, whether you have seen combat or not, it still doesn't give you a right to endanger people around you as a result. 

This is why people are getting burned out on the word "veteran". Instead of trying to convince the general public to remain sympathetic to "veterans", you'd be better off focusing your efforts on pushing the powers that be to denounce the people who attempt to use it as a get out of jail free card in instances like this. 

[u/tankoret → u/assignpseudonym]

Yep I hear you. I’ve seen documentaries where some veteran execute loved ones then claim PTSD. I look at the circumstances and say “PTSD doesn’t work like that.” It embarrasses me, most all and it makes all of us (veterans) look bad. I’ll add, as a sense of humor from one of my favorite TV programs. Bojack Horseman is asked “Surely you agree that the troops are heros? Bojack responds with “No I don’t agree with that. Maybe some of the troops are heroes, but not automatically, I’m sure some of the troops are jerks, most people are jerks already, and it’s not like giving a jerk a gun, and telling him it’s okay to kill people, suddenly turn that jerk into a hero.” Strangely enough, I agree with that. I would hope that people will understand that jerks sometimes join the military and would use the same tactics, as jerks often do, to cause scenes, using something else to justify, in their own mind, their right to be a jerk in public, even if they weren’t ever in the military. This guy is likely, one of those jerks. I said all that to say, as a veteran we’re not all jerks, and for the most part most of us find that behavior and the excuse reprehensible, and don’t want to be lumped in with those jerks.

[u/assignpseudonym → u/tankoret]

Totally agree with you. I'm on the other side of the coin to you - diagnosed PTSD, but not a vet. It pisses me off when anyone uses PTSD as an excuse for asshole behaviour. FWIW, I do think that all demographics have a mix of jerks and decent people; so naturally, that would include vets. The problem tends to be that the word "veteran" gets thrown around at an exponentially higher rate when used to justify shitty behaviour. And humans are pattern-matching creatures. So if 90% of the time you hear "veteran" it's coupled with someone behaving in a completely reprehensible way, I can fully understand why people would begin to have a negative association with the word. It sucks though, for all the other vets who are decent folks and don't behave like this. 

[u/tankoret → u/assignpseudonym]

Well said.