Just today one of our members received a message offering a $30,000 bonus to come back in. So we here, we need to get the message out to all those who are not yet deployed. Now is the time to resist. If you joined up for values of honor, courage, and commitment. If you joined up to defend your communities, now is the time to defend your communities by refusing this illegal and immoral war!"
More Mike Prisners are being created every minute right now. This was from March 6th.
i got a dumbass cousin who is career enlisted military. plenty enough years in to have the opportunity to mature, but bought a bunch of toys and giant military tattoos instead. not an armed troop, but like a logistics bozo. certainly not in some intellectually demanding role. brags about the shit that has been going on with sinking civilian boats in the carribean. dunno if he’s changed his tune since Iran, but i doubt it because he’s an idiot. a guy who loves the “thank you for your service” strokes.
anyway, haven’t said it aloud, but if he somehow gets lit up handing out socks or inventorying fuel or whatever during the middle east attrition, i am just gonna roll my eyes same as if he crashed a jetski into a goddamn bridge abutment.
i can maybe feel a general regret about a sheltered, indoctrinated and socioeconomically cornered 18 year old, but anybody over 30 is answerable to everything they do without exception or limitations. especially for all the bluster these institutions parrot about “duty”.
Oh yeah most of them still deserve the wall but if you’re willing to get out in the street and make a call to action like the one in this video its not nothing.
We don’t have to like these people.
for sure. I got wrapped up in my own post and forgot to add the context. this guy seems alright and i certainly know vets that are anti-war & empire hostile.
i just got fixated shitting on my dumbass cousin.
i just got fixated shitting on my dumbass cousin.
Please keep doing that. Particularly to their face.
I have a shitty cousin too. Not a boot but a dipshit lanyard dweeb that claims to be a socialist but listens to red scare and has some transphobic brainworms.
Last time we went out drinking I stormed out of the bar after tearing into him about that.
Some of my cousins are literal feds. Not going to be specific because I don’t want to dox myself, but yeah. Like they’re on first name basis with people who have multiple Wikipedia pages. I will spend the rest of my life trying to undo the damage my family has inflicted on the rest of the world.
I do get a kick out of them arguing with my uncle over Trump. My uncle is also a ghoul, who “doesn’t like the guy but he gets things done,” while my cousins think “He’s unpresidential and unfit to hold office!” My pinko ass is all “You fucks spent your entire lives dedicated to America, what? Did you actually believe in the ‘freedom and democracy’ nonsense? L M A O.”
They probably still believe it. The power of propaganda and the discouragement of curiosity instilled in USian public indoctrination centers is not to be underestimated.
It’s been well over a decade since I got out, I’d put it on blast to the media if they ever call me with an offer to come back.
values of honor, courage, and commitment […] to defend your communities
We can laugh but also now is the time to bring potential armed and trained folks into the fold.
We can’t just completely write them off though we must keep them at arms length.
Arm’s length is too fucking close. I’m not willing to watch this - what war did this asshole fight in, exactly? They’ve learned nothing and that’s 100% clear from the quote.
It doesn’t really matter, they’re still alive and young enough to be getting recruited again, so it’s basically the same regardless: “when I was murdering brown people it was for a righteous cause we were bringing them democracy and spreading American freedoms. Capitalism was under threat from people thousands of miles away! It was one hell of an experience!”
I don’t care why they suddenly think it’s wrong this time, they clearly are still on board with the actions they took in the past.
I initially read “US vet” as “US veterinarian”
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
