The images Spenser Rapone posted on Twitter from his West Point graduation were intentionally shocking: In one, the smirking cadet opens his dress uniform to expose a T-shirt with a blood-red image of socialist icon Che Guevara. In another, he raises his fist and flips over his cap to reveal the hand-scrawled message: “Communism will win.”
Less than a year after Rapone’s images drew a firestorm of vitriol and even death threats, the second lieutenant who became known as the “commie cadet” is officially out of the U.S. Army with an other-than-honorable discharge.
Props to him for having the guts to actually fight the system instead of just being a inhumane drone….communism, tho.
Luis Bell
real communism has never been tried, tho :^)
Nolan Lopez
If someone attends West Point then they weren't going to be drones in the first place. They were going to be one of the people in command of said drones.
Nathan Collins
If someone joins an army as a self proclaimed agent of a political ideology they aren't fighting the system, they're trying to become it. Likely to the detriment of anyone who dares to disagree with them.
Henry Kelly
Not sure what he expected. The military is literally the vanguard of the two party system and anyone too far right or left is guaranteed to be kicked out.
Brayden Hill
Out of interest, isn't this just one step down from treason for an American officer?
Communism is explicitly revolutionary. This is, definitionally, sedition of the highest order. He deserves execution by law.
Evan Peterson
Guess not all grunts are shit…
Connor Adams
No. Just this one.
Anthony Miller
this guy needs lose his scholarship
James Fisher
Communism will prevail коммунизм будет преобладать
Zachary Richardson
Well, there it is /pol. The secret deep state commie government plot before your very eyes.
Gabriel Walker
You need to go back to leddit.
John Harris
Fuck your shitpost, point still stands.
Bentley Moore
I just don't get it.
Julian Howard
no but joining the military for maybe 5-6 years and then retiring at age 30 on your taxes via military pension is :^)
Oliver Jones
One of the greatest semetic psyops. "You're not a real man unless you rebel against a system. The capitalist system is right here and has been comfy for too long"
Brayden Howard
You know daddy paid for everything including the drugs commies are always on
Josiah Gutierrez
But there was no point made, reddit.
Ian Williams
*curb your enthusiasm theme plays internally
Julian Sanchez
Look reddit, if you want people to take you seriously, you're going to have to actually make a point when you attempt to argue.
Aaron Ross
You have to serve for 20 years before you're eligible for retirement pay.
