CrickettGrrrlDec 17
timberwraith

So, between the government cutting massive amounts of doctors, nurses, and other staff from the VA (35K cut by end of year) and the military being shifted toward policing and potentially killing u.s. citizens, does the u.s. military still look like a nice career plan?

I'm just asking.

Folks thought it was a nice place to land out of high school when it was simply devoted to policing and murdering people in other countries but what about now?

Is that still your plan for your kids?

Dec 16 at 9:58pmWeb
Show threadtimberwraithDec 16

There is a level of soul-deep sickness of spirit in this that I can not wrap my mind around.

"Have We Normalized Nuclear War?"

https://archive.ph/Oxmep

Show threadtimberwraithDec 16

Again, a profound sickness of spirit permeates the mindset this ex-military author is describing.

It's chilling.

It's *evil*.

https://archive.ph/Oxmep

Show threadtimberwraithDec 16

Imagine an organization that formally trains people to mass murder other groups of humans with efficiency, bravado, and pride.

Now imagine sending your teenage child into the hands of that institution because they promise a "good future."

Show threadgnaddrigDec 16
@timberwraith
Depressing. And to think the country has been shaped so that fir many, a militsry career is virtually the only not criminal way out of the slums and their dead ends.
Show threadjiub   Dec 16
@timberwraith yeah, i think it's absolutely disgusting how the US military is valorized. it should be held in contempt especially now, but also at every point after ww2

i find it absolutely disgusting how many democrat politicians play up their 20+ year long careers in the military or CIA or whatever. but that should be a huge stain on their humanity, it means they participated in every single on of the US's illegal and ill-advised post-9/11 wars, and did so voluntarily. they should probably be sent to the hague, not elected to office

with shitheads like that leading the "left" party it's no wonder the democrats don't even pretend to be an anti-war party anymore, despite that being an incredibly popular position

i have some sympathy for people who did a single tour of duty and got out. the US is one of the most propagandized countries on the planet, and it's not easy to unlearn that. then there's the poverty draft. but that's as far as i'll go, after all, >95% of people do not go into the military, so it's not like it's something that anyone has to do
Show threadJust BobDec 16

@timberwraith

I made the mistake of joining the US Army in 1990. Now I live with the fact that I was helping to murder people for CRUD oil (used to make your one time use plastic trash).

Now? Just an extension of the Nazi ICE.