We’ve done the same war with poor folk routine since WWII. If you’re scratching your head now, you might be a little slow.
“When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.”
-Jean-Paul Sartre
“Why don’t presidents fight the war? Why do they always send the poor?” ~System of a Down
See, I was able to seem sophisticated by citing Jean-Paul Sartr. This is in spite of the fact that I actually heard the quote from a Linkin Park song.
This is some Starship Troopers shit.
“Moose Lambs, Mister Rico! I’m a-burnin’ 'em down!”
Everybody’s going to the party, have a real good time
Because killing poor kids is a grand ol’ American pastime.
You can’t convince me the person on the right in that image can see anything wearing that hat like that.
The person on the left can’t see anything either. They have a black bar covering their eyes.
Oh you… I guess…
Eh, only
1814 have died, so no biggieReally doubt that number. I would not be surprised if it’s 100+.
my reference :)
Bullshit
So the US can continue to feed this guy’s ambitions for some reason.
Poor kids always die for the idiocy of the rich/powerful.
Israel is prepared to fight to the last American in order to win
No American sacrifice is too great.
Israel is a proxy for Western capitalists. They are doing what their masters want: destabilize the region to prevent unified resistance against imperialism.
Which is to say, yes blame Israel, but also American and European governments are just as culpable and must also be dismantled.
You mean like when Israel bombed a US Navy ship?
ISRAEL! ISRAEL! Oops, I mean USA! USA!
The region has no indication of having a tendency to be against imperialism as a principle (only against being themselves victims of it) and even without the White Jewish Supremacist state it wouldn’t naturally be unified on account of both the Shia/Sunni split and the fact that those living there are from quite a number of different cultures who often don’t see each other in a positive light or as equals.
It’s more likely that the motivations of the Western capitalists are simply to steal their Oil, rather than to block some grand imaginary uprising of that region against imperialism.
The Sykes-Picot “Agreement” occurred because the Ottoman Empire had long proved an obstacle to Western imperialism in the region, and colonialist powers wanted to divide it into disparate countries that were almost guaranteed to cause conflict. Both Syria and Libya were destroyed within the last two decades because their governments were explicitly anti-imperialist. Historically, the Levant region has been unified while simultaneously containing multitudes of ethnicities, including Jewish communities that were largely treated better there than in Europe. The Shia/Sunni split largely only concerns Iran, which I don’t think would join a unified Levant. The importance of the split itself is also largely overstated by western political theorists because the idea that the region is ungovernable and full of in-fighting is used as a causus belli for western imperialists.
Perhaps the modern people would not unify specifically to overthrow western imperialism (although given the massive negative impact of imperialism, I’m not so sure), but their unification would pose an obstacle to imperialism simply by making them stronger and less vulnerable.
The idea that the Ottoman Empire wasn’t imperialist, is hilarious.
The Ottoman’s Empire objection to Western imperialism was the self-serving desire of not being a target of it themselves or losing influence in the region.
Going back to my point, most in the region aren’t against imperialism in general, they’re only against they themselves being the victims of it, which in recent History means being against Western Imperialism, though there has been plenty of Imperialism going on both from nations in that region against other nations there and further afar and from nations from elsewhere than Europe against nations there - after all, the Fertile Crescent (which covers an area were several of the modern nations in that region are) is one of the Cradles Of Civilization so it’s hard to find an area of the World more fought over than that.
Being “against the outsiders trying to take our stuff” isn’t the kind of unity of purpose that lasts beyond the point when the outsiders stop or are forced to stop trying to take your stuff.
But hey, if you need more indications of that, just look at the 19th and early 20th centuries in the region: it wasn’t exactly hard for the British to deploy their usual Divide And Conquer strategy in the region and take over most of the place, the very period you describe as “unified while simultaneously containing multitudes of ethnicities”.
More broadly, evidence that the region has no greater tendency for unity than anywhere else in the World can be found in its long History of empires rising and then breaking up and falling there - surely if the Middle East had such a great tendency for unity it wouldn’t have literally thousands of years of History of whenever unified or close to it. breaking up into competing groups.
Mind you, I’m not at all against the idea of the region becoming more unified and stopping Western imperialists (or their successors, which will likely be China) from continuing to pillage the region, I just thing that expecting to happen naturally if there was no White Jewish Supremacist nation is Hope rather than a hard nosed look at the Historical record of the region.
Israel wanted it. They still do. They’re taking our money and weapons and will happily endure American casualties.
Israel’s holding up their end, doing a genocide in Lebanon. They’re getting hundreds of their soldiers maimed, killed, captured-and-then-killed-somehow, when these soldiers aren’t busy stealing lingerie from Arab women and dressing in it.
Why can’t Americans pick up the slack on their end? Do you have any idea how long Americans have wanted a war with Iran? Do it for Cheney! Do it for McCain! Do it for The Ladybugs!
Wait until they start The Draft.
This time they’ll do it by Zip code. Punish poor kids in Blue states. And the media, along with Middle America, will be all for it.
Two reasons.
A. Kids don’t have a future here. The STEM craze all but died out and jobs are disappearing. Some see it as the only path to a career.
or
B. The kid in question is a fascist and wants to die for the 4th Reich due to propaganda.
Awkward times in the bunks, I’d say.
A. Man I hear what you’re saying but what a stupid decision. I see vets on the street literally every day.
stem was never stem anyway and they tried to do steam. math and engineering and science pays poor or is hit and miss. It was just T
they specifically target poor and middle class neighborhoods to that end. they even know that some college campuses(the prospects of them finding a job is low) so they often are seen on campus trying to recruit people. STEM job prospects have been so bad for like 10+ years too, if your not going for programming/TECH, bio(health only), and maybe an engineer, dont expect something, if you dont have years of lab experience. they also never target wealthier neighborhoods.
i seen recruiting offices for each branch in different locations. army for a well travelled mall area, and another in less taffic mall, conveniently both are located near public colleges. the only oddball one i saw was a recruiting office near a mall of asian supermarket near the highway.
and then the ones for all the armed forced combined into one in a more obscure area in a financial district.
Last time I heard, enlistment is extremely unpopular among youths.
apparently not with top gun maverick propaganda, when the movie came out, more people wanted to join because of it. in general people cant get in because thier education is so dumb down they cant even pass the asvab(enlistment only), and apparently they also cant pass the weight limit/physical portion too. i suspect alot of the enlistment comes from red areas, destitute white people with little prospect of a future, joinj the military as away to escape poverty/ or to stroke thier racist egos.
and yes economic downturn will drive more people to joining too, like the 08 crisis, and drumpfs manufactered distractions from the EPSTEIN FILES.
send the whole trump aministration.
only once they’ve passed the mandatory private and personal hegseth erection strength test.
I’m not sure they will pass it. You might have stumbled onto the long game, here…
and testing thier testosterone levels from thier “samples”
hegseth sperm count taste test
I’m not from the USA, but am from a military family and when I see Trump saluting the dead soldiers coffins as they return to the US it genuinely makes my piss boil.
The only reason many of his supporters support this war is becasue they’re racist, indoctrinated fools who don’t care if a few more “brown” people die.
there is a video that went viral recently about a viet nam vet slapping a younger guy for not standing during the national anthem. He supposedly talked to the kid about his service and the friends he lost. seriously. you where in the cluster that was viet nam and you see the trump now and your not sitting down with the lad rather than supporting this bulltrump.
there is a video that went viral recently about a viet nam vet slapping a younger guy for not standing during the national anthem. He supposedly talked to the kid about his service and the friends he lost.
Hell yeah. Fuck Vietnam for trying to take away our national anthem.
he also hates soldiers, and servicemembers, he calls them suckers and losers, whats in it for them. he also famously said he would disown ERIC/or JR if they ever joined the military, no more sweet cocaine money if they join.
That’s the funny part… they’re so fucking dumb that they don’t realize that Iran… is mainly Persian… they’re not even brown. They could literally pass for most white Americans skin color wise. But the magats are to fucking stupid to realize this.
pass for most white Americans skin color
Even the Irish are not really white. White is not a color.
The movie 300 made it clear that they don’t share our values.
when I see Trump saluting the dead soldiers coffins as they return to the US it genuinely makes my piss boil.
You think your piss is boiling? Imagine how Trump feels, staring at all those losers.
The only reason many of his supporters support this war is becasue they’re racist, indoctrinated fools who don’t care if a few more “brown” people die.
They absolutely care. They are rabid for it.
They absolutely care. They are rabid for it.
So long as they aren’t being sent overseas, anyway.
There’s people who go to war for the college degree or the debt relief or the career advancement. And a lot of them bounce as soon as the checks clear.
There’s also people who go to war because its a place where you can go out and get roided up and coke-brained and commit atrocities and be rewarded for it. They tend to stick around, then hop into the private sector to keep the good times rolling.
most of them go into reserves or nat guard. it appears for a while alot of the combat roles were impacted.
Oh no, I wasn’t clear: I was referring to the non-military dipshits who are shouting crumb and spittle filled tirades at their TV over the idea that a brown person might exist and be happy.
I was one of the first category.
