Oh, it's never going to happen?

Damn, that sucks.

  • Hmm [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    This is incorrect. The level at which you're trying to approach foreign policy is wrong. The way you take on the State Department, Pentagon, etc. is by making them unable to wage their imperial campaigns.

    In the US you could be distributing information to discouragement military enlistment. Even for "apolitical" people, learning about all the lies and manipulation recruiters engage in can be insightful.

    You could also be helping and encouraging those currently in the military gain conscientious objector status: https://centeronconscience.org/guide-for-co-military/

    • pooh [she/her, love/loves]
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      3 years ago

      Discouraging enlistment and helping enlisted soldiers get kicked out seems like it would be pretty useful and important work, but is ignored more often than not for some reason.

      • star_wraith [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        It's not easy to discourage enlistment unless you're actually in high school. Even teachers are probably looking at discipline or termination if they try it. Can't imagine a lot of high schools in the US are gonna let my late 30s ass onto campus and start talking to students about why the military is evil.

        • pooh [she/her, love/loves]
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          3 years ago

          Can’t imagine a lot of high schools in the US are gonna let my late 30s ass onto campus and start talking to students about why the military is evil.

          This is true, but it's also not too difficult to reach those kids on social media, which a lot of military recruiters are also using. It might be possible to influence at least some high school students, who could then in turn influence their friends and classmates and push them against joining. Might also help to encourage political organizing among high school students themselves against recruitment efforts, wherever possible.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      In the US you could be distributing information to discouragement military enlistment.

      The US hasn't hit an enlistment target since 2016, and that was after drastically cutting their standards over the previous decade.

      You could also be helping and encouraging those currently in the military gain conscientious objector status

      The bare handful of people I know who are still in the national guard are some of the most red-pilled chuds I still associate with.

      And while I'll never have a kind word to say about enlisting, much less going for officer training, there's really not much I can tell to my friend who joined the marines (to spent most of his career guarding embassies) entirely to get the education, housing, and health care benefits. He's better off, economically, than a number of my other friends who just got chewed up and spit out by the service sector.