I had hoped to speak to high-schoolers – I still do – but the six high schools nearest me either ignored my offer to speak or declined it. “Do it for the - Casey Carlisle for Antiwar.com
Holy shit… How can you rightly identify that the US military (and the US government’s use of said military) is evil, and that killing people for their ideas just spreads those ideas, but then somehow come to the conclusion that public health mandates during a pandemic are unconstitutional and “billionaires in this country got rich by actually serving their fellow man”?
Fucking hell, the propaganda machines are in overdrive.
Appreciate a veteran telling kids not to join the military. (Assuming this was written by an actual veteran, and isn’t just fictional propaganda.)
The rest is idiotic corpo bootlicking unrelated to the topic.
at this point I’m extremely suspicious of anybody who self identifies as “anti-war” because if you have the correct opinions that would be included under what the listener would consider opposition towar, you can just, like, say those opinions. “anti-war” claimers are always trying to shield their real opinions (Russia should get to occupy Ukraine to do at the minimum genocide-adjacent stuff, you should help Trump by throwing your vote away on the current zero support not even left wing third party candidate, etc) from criticism
Holy shit… How can you rightly identify that the US military (and the US government’s use of said military) is evil, and that killing people for their ideas just spreads those ideas, but then somehow come to the conclusion that public health mandates during a pandemic are unconstitutional and “billionaires in this country got rich by actually serving their fellow man”?
Fucking hell, the propaganda machines are in overdrive.
Appreciate a veteran telling kids not to join the military. (Assuming this was written by an actual veteran, and isn’t just fictional propaganda.)
The rest is idiotic corpo bootlicking unrelated to the topic.
at this point I’m extremely suspicious of anybody who self identifies as “anti-war” because if you have the correct opinions that would be included under what the listener would consider opposition towar, you can just, like, say those opinions. “anti-war” claimers are always trying to shield their real opinions (Russia should get to occupy Ukraine to do at the minimum genocide-adjacent stuff, you should help Trump by throwing your vote away on the current zero support not even left wing third party candidate, etc) from criticism