Glenn Greenwald:
Can’t help but notice how many top military officials these days sound more and more like some trolling, highly politicized wannabe MSNBC panelist or a pseudo-enlightened NYT op-ed writer than they do apolitical military officers.
I’m so embarrassed of our military, what the fuck happened to them
First the threat was climate change
Then it was white supremacy
Now it’s Twitter trolls
What is the army for again?

A United States Army Major General lashed out at critics on Twitter and asked his Twitter followers to “block and report” people he called “trolls” and “the disinformation tinfoil hat team,” after they criticized one of his tweets urging people to get vaccinated.
Army Maj. Gen. Patrick Donahoe, commanding general of the U.S. Army Maneuver Center of Excellence at Fort Benning, on Thursday, July 22, quote-tweeted an earlier tweet warning of the Delta variant and urging people to get the vaccine. He tweeted:
3 weeks ago. Since then we’ve seen a spike in young trainees in the ICU, spike in trainees arriving positive, and it moves quick in the formation. To get ahead get the shot. Takes five weeks to build the immunity. If you havent done so, do it right now. Delta variant aint playing.
A Hillsdale College graduate student and Marine veteran, Josiah Lippincott, responded to his tweet, saying there were 26 military suicides in the 4th quarter of 2020 — the same number as total military deaths due to the coronavirus. “The lockdowns, liberty restrictions, quarantines, and general disruption of servicemember’s lives is a way bigger killer than the virus,” he said, posting a Department of Defense graph.
Donahoe responded:
Your false equivalency of suicide compared to the virus doesn’t hold up. Why don’t you compare auto accidents while you’re at it. Your apparent aversion to the vaccine is wrong headed. It’s the way to normalcy while saving lives. In 1918 people prayed for a vaccine.
Lippincott responded: “Suicide is an intentional act. Car accidents are not. When policy treats healthy soldiers as biological hazards we shouldn’t be surprised by an increase in suicide and psychological problems.”
Read it all here.
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