Military is fucked up and all but I feel like it could give me good revolution skills. Would never join up though because I dont want any part in their system.
I know a lot of my attraction to it comes from growing up in a family with numerous veterans and also feeling like I didnt really belong with a specific group and looking for a source of self worth . Its hard to realize that you've fallen for propaganda and pulling yourself away from it. No good at all.
Yeah, it's too much weight on the conscious hearing the constant vitriol being spewed AND having to go along with it to fit in. It would wear me down so fast, fuck that.
depends on branch. army/marines absolutely likely you will get serious combat training regardless of MOS or rank/commission. navy? maybe but even then you'll be on a ship the whole time. AF? lol they don't call it the chair force for no reason, the overwhelming majority people in the AF who don't fly or do flight support end up at desk jobs. if you get into AF OCS you are absolutely going to end up sitting at a desk in BDUs lmao
regardless. not only do I think revolution in a country like this a really idiotic idea I think expecting the military to give you those skills is even stupider. if you want to train you should train on your own to protect, not to expect to go rambo style and voila suddenly USA is a socialist state. not how it works. train to protect your friends, your family, etc. in case things go south and the Q goons and a future GOP president decide to start their own waffen ss. learn how to do first aid/cpr, wound treatment, and some basic firearms/self defense skills (maybe take a class?). if you want to change society your time is better spent doing these things while being a trade unionist. or working in dsa. i know it's a meme but some chapters and caucuses really are very good, you might have to go out of your way to find them but they are out there. that will achieve more concrete improvement in people's lives than LARPing.
look at Brace. despite going overseas and actually fighting against ISIS he's not just sitting around waiting for shit to go down, he's here at home unionizing breweries and making fun of Q/Jan 6 treason larper dumbasses.
if you want to join the military, join if you want a relatively low-effort job in the imperial core that will give you $$ and work experience to improve your material conditions. join if that equation works for you personally. if that's not the case don't bother unless you're obsessed with the idea of prestige/respect and come from a military family and have expectations to uphold.
but joining b/c you think you'll turn into captain america socialist edition? lol hell naw.
that line from the Talmud, made famous by SL -- "he who saves one life, saves the world entire" is something I think every leftist should internalize. it's not always about the aesthetics. sometimes it's just about saving someone. doing simple things like donating to a palestinian relief org, working at a food co-op, showing up for demonstrations, learning how to use naloxone and treating a junkie friend, accompanying a friend struggling with alcoholism to an AA meeting, etc. will make you whole and give you far more real-world experience in helping people should things get bad than LARPing. we all owe debts to each other.
anyways. i digress. goodnight all, i love you dearly
Umm a military base sweaty
Military is fucked up and all but I feel like it could give me good revolution skills. Would never join up though because I dont want any part in their system.
yeah there's too much indoctrination, and then besides that you become a direct cog in the machine of empire. no good.
I know a lot of my attraction to it comes from growing up in a family with numerous veterans and also feeling like I didnt really belong with a specific group and looking for a source of self worth . Its hard to realize that you've fallen for propaganda and pulling yourself away from it. No good at all.
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I feel like being surrounded by that much explicit hatred all day would make me a worse person. That would occur in both scenarios though.
Yeah, it's too much weight on the conscious hearing the constant vitriol being spewed AND having to go along with it to fit in. It would wear me down so fast, fuck that.
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Judging by the last Borat movie, doesn’t look too difficult
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depends on branch. army/marines absolutely likely you will get serious combat training regardless of MOS or rank/commission. navy? maybe but even then you'll be on a ship the whole time. AF? lol they don't call it the chair force for no reason, the overwhelming majority people in the AF who don't fly or do flight support end up at desk jobs. if you get into AF OCS you are absolutely going to end up sitting at a desk in BDUs lmao
regardless. not only do I think revolution in a country like this a really idiotic idea I think expecting the military to give you those skills is even stupider. if you want to train you should train on your own to protect, not to expect to go rambo style and voila suddenly USA is a socialist state. not how it works. train to protect your friends, your family, etc. in case things go south and the Q goons and a future GOP president decide to start their own waffen ss. learn how to do first aid/cpr, wound treatment, and some basic firearms/self defense skills (maybe take a class?). if you want to change society your time is better spent doing these things while being a trade unionist. or working in dsa. i know it's a meme but some chapters and caucuses really are very good, you might have to go out of your way to find them but they are out there. that will achieve more concrete improvement in people's lives than LARPing.
look at Brace. despite going overseas and actually fighting against ISIS he's not just sitting around waiting for shit to go down, he's here at home unionizing breweries and making fun of Q/Jan 6 treason larper dumbasses.
if you want to join the military, join if you want a relatively low-effort job in the imperial core that will give you $$ and work experience to improve your material conditions. join if that equation works for you personally. if that's not the case don't bother unless you're obsessed with the idea of prestige/respect and come from a military family and have expectations to uphold.
but joining b/c you think you'll turn into captain america socialist edition? lol hell naw.
that line from the Talmud, made famous by SL -- "he who saves one life, saves the world entire" is something I think every leftist should internalize. it's not always about the aesthetics. sometimes it's just about saving someone. doing simple things like donating to a palestinian relief org, working at a food co-op, showing up for demonstrations, learning how to use naloxone and treating a junkie friend, accompanying a friend struggling with alcoholism to an AA meeting, etc. will make you whole and give you far more real-world experience in helping people should things get bad than LARPing. we all owe debts to each other.
anyways. i digress. goodnight all, i love you dearly