Counter point, people wearing "I was in Korea" gear are old enough now to know better.
Shit, a few years after getting out of Iraq and the Army, I had done enough reading to know that I was involved in a pretty serious war crime and I was still a great big lib back then. I didn't run around with a "OIF/OEF Veteran" hat on like I had done "good things" but there are others that still think that murdering people "over there" was justified for one reason or another. And little propaganda cartoons like this one white wash the crimes we tend to commit as troops while the people back home are told "we're advancing democracy over there."
Counterpoint, theyre fucking old propagandized idiots. One of the old idiots in my life is literally reading Dinesh DSouza right now.
Just because youre smart doesnt mean everyone else is though. I dont think youre better than all the people in your old units, you just found the right material at the right time and had the right experiences at the right times.
The asvab waiver 88M is likely never going to find his way to Marx and I think we should acknowledge that and be sympathetic to it.
Believing that people are a result of their material conditions and situations and not caricatures of good and evil is going to get me murked by hypothetical fascist.
Counter counter point: We're all propagandized idiots though. I wasn't smart for reading, I just fell through the cracks of all the things that should have driven me rightward into being either a centrist fash enabler or full on :frothingfash: fash.
Counter point, people wearing "I was in Korea" gear are old enough now to know better.
Shit, a few years after getting out of Iraq and the Army, I had done enough reading to know that I was involved in a pretty serious war crime and I was still a great big lib back then. I didn't run around with a "OIF/OEF Veteran" hat on like I had done "good things" but there are others that still think that murdering people "over there" was justified for one reason or another. And little propaganda cartoons like this one white wash the crimes we tend to commit as troops while the people back home are told "we're advancing democracy over there."
Counterpoint, theyre fucking old propagandized idiots. One of the old idiots in my life is literally reading Dinesh DSouza right now.
Just because youre smart doesnt mean everyone else is though. I dont think youre better than all the people in your old units, you just found the right material at the right time and had the right experiences at the right times.
The asvab waiver 88M is likely never going to find his way to Marx and I think we should acknowledge that and be sympathetic to it.
This thinking is how you quickly get murked by the fash
Believing that people are a result of their material conditions and situations and not caricatures of good and evil is going to get me murked by hypothetical fascist.
Counter counter point: We're all propagandized idiots though. I wasn't smart for reading, I just fell through the cracks of all the things that should have driven me rightward into being either a centrist fash enabler or full on :frothingfash: fash.