Military legal experts who have been advising transgender troops say that the new policy is unlawful, and while they were not aware of the other services releasing similar memos, they fear it could serve as a blueprint across the military.
I don’t understand- this nonsense was always there. From genocide support to invasion to hegemonic expansion of an empire … nobody actively involved in military service today is there by force of draft.
WE SHOULD NOT BE SIGNING UP FOR THIS STUFF.
Yes, modern capitalism has made it so some of are, by design so desperate we “must” join. But we should at all steps support people who don’t want to join or want to get the heck out.
nobody actively involved in military service today is there by force of draft.
That could only seem easy to say with the benefit of a stable job and housing and an education, in other words the remarkable privilege of not having to worry about what to do after high school or how to escape poverty. Add in nationalistic public education and the dangling of tens of thousands of dollars in sign on bonuses and your “should” starts looking a hell of a lot less persuasive to a bunch children whose prefrontal cortices aren’t finished developing yet. Children join the military because they are brainwashed from birth, indoctrinated into the civil religion to believe that their lives are worth spending for freedom and democracy or whatever the fuck, not because they’re carefully weighing the moral options before embarking on a life-altering and hegemony-supporting “career path.”
I don’t understand- this nonsense was always there. From genocide support to invasion to hegemonic expansion of an empire … nobody actively involved in military service today is there by force of draft.
WE SHOULD NOT BE SIGNING UP FOR THIS STUFF.
Yes, modern capitalism has made it so some of are, by design so desperate we “must” join. But we should at all steps support people who don’t want to join or want to get the heck out.
That could only seem easy to say with the benefit of a stable job and housing and an education, in other words the remarkable privilege of not having to worry about what to do after high school or how to escape poverty. Add in nationalistic public education and the dangling of tens of thousands of dollars in sign on bonuses and your “should” starts looking a hell of a lot less persuasive to a bunch children whose prefrontal cortices aren’t finished developing yet. Children join the military because they are brainwashed from birth, indoctrinated into the civil religion to believe that their lives are worth spending for freedom and democracy or whatever the fuck, not because they’re carefully weighing the moral options before embarking on a life-altering and hegemony-supporting “career path.”
read the rest of my reply?
I did and I don’t think you fully covered what I said in the last paragraph because you still said what I responded to in the first.
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glad you approve, now stay out of my inbox
no.