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I am an amateur propagandist. A hobbyist. Enthusiast, if you will.

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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨MTZ@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • eatCasserole@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    When I was a kid, I thought this line was a joke

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    • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It is a joke, just a different kind

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    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t have kids, but if I did, I sure as fuck wouldn’t raise them to join the military. I saw though that shit after 9/11.

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      • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Dude, I go back to Vietnam. Wait until Trump calls for a draft, with lots of loopholes for wealthy kids.

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    • Siegfried@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The real joke is are the folks awwing at him for that

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  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I have to keep saying this, and I apologize for the repetitiveness, but Republicans can stop all of this at any time. They can fire him, reign him in, anything to stop this.

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    • MTZ@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yep. But they won’t. Go to the conservative subreddit. They are fucking LOVING it.

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      • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Those conservative subs are 80% bots. Of course, the 20% that aren’t bots are being swayed by it.

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      • gigastasio@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        What’s a subreddit?

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    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Who cares about raping kids? We’re getting RICH!

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    • timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Honestly I like this take. Keep saying it. Better than every other moron coming in asking Democrats to do something.

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    • red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They are ride or die and so far he has done little they’re not enjoying.

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  • anomnom@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Irans kids.

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    • MTZ@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Brutal. 😢

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  • djdarren@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m choosing to interpret this as the regular people’s kids have armed up and are hunting down Trump and Netanyahu’s kids.

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    • Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What a better world you’re imagining.

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      • CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I see skys of blue, red roses too, the drumpfs and Netanyafucks of the world being hunted for sport, by me and you, and I think to myself, what a wonderful woooooooorld.

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    • sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Raise your kids so they don’t volunteer as an imperial enforcer.

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  • EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m very happy I didn’t reproduce. For me, the bottom picture is simply a blank space

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    • otacon239@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’ve felt this way before, but I also wonder if I would have had kids in another life where the world wasn’t so fucked. I feel occasionally that I was robbed of parenthood by our current state of things.

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      • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I mean if you think of it like that, the world has always been fucked

        Wars are not a new invention, very brutal wars have been fought throught human history.

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  • choui4@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is some good shit. I plan to steal it

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    • MTZ@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Steal away, Brosef Stalin.

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  • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The one small consolation is that we don’t have a military draft, and most young people who pursue the miilitary either have a family with military service background. However, the other largest cohort are young people with no family support structures at all, so they give their lives to the war machine to try to do things like get an education.

    Still, people choosing to enter military service is way down and more US citizens than ever fail to meet the fitness standards and requirements.

    So, it’s not really “your kids” unless you chose to push them to military service or were such a bad/absent/dead parent that they had few other choices.

    Now, if they try re-instating the draft, than this meme will be a lot more accurate.

    This of course is not meant to minimize how insane this push for war is, nor how damaging it will be to those who are in military service, for whom this meme is very accurate.

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    • MTZ@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I work with 100% veterans and active duty. I have thousands of clients, and veterans or active duty.

      The vast majority of people do not join because of family tradition. The vast majority join for the absolutely insane benefits that come along with service.

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      • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I won’t dispute your lived experience, I just know that I have read about families with prior military service being more likely to have children who similarly prioritize service. Thanks for being a support for them.

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      • lechekaflan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        The vast majority join for the absolutely insane benefits that come along with service.

        Many of them also join because it is basically their only/best option.

        Unfortunately yes, and in some cases a whole people of a place send themselves to serve in exchange for those benefits, like American Samoans to recruiting stations as much as Nepalese to sign up hoping to become Gurkhas.

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    • Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There is a draft. Every man in the country is signed up for it. They just haven’t used it since Vietnam.

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      • chunes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You make it sound automatic. No, they make you sign yourself up for it. Just to rub it in “we own you,” I guess?

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  • Teknikal@anarchist.nexus ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m thinking a touch more extreme and have the bottom photo bodybags. But yeah I’m one for overkill.

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    • MTZ@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I like your style.

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    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Overkill is the new kill

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  • mech@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Are my kids assuming at theirs at least?

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  • 20cello@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What about Iranian children? Furthermore,would you guys (who by the way elected that thing as your president) trade the fate of your children for theirs?

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    • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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      Fixed it for you.

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  • OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Me not having kids and ending my family line with me:

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  • MrKoyun@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I will never understand people who not only actively support the military and soldiers, but want to become a soldier by their own free will…

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    • MTZ@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      People are heavily propagandized to from a very young age. For example, GI Joe.

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      • 0x0@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        For example, GI Joe.

        50% of Hollywood’s content?

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    • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Cause some people are psychos. Like I understand if a poor kid has no other means to get out of their situation and thus joins the army. But there are many middle class families with several generations of high ranking service members. These people are just straight up psycho, they have all the inside knowledge of what the military actually does and they still force their kids to join the military academy.

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    • ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      IME, unless it’s for papers and whatnot, it’s usually because your brain doesn’t work so you have no options outside of it (and your brain is so atrophied that morality is not considered either).

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    • 0x0@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      In a country with no universal healthcare it’s a way to get free/cheap healthcare as well as other perks… until you get deployed, then that excuse no longer flies.

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  • sirico@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Never forget Michael Moore interviewing Congress members about sending their kids to war

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  • FatVegan@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t think my kids are terrorist pedophile bootlickers

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    • CaptainMan251@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No but they might be drafted in the pedophile autocrats decide so.

      When will NATO do regime change for the U.S.

      Help us please.

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  • Gammelfisch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The MAGA fucks are visiting their private doctors to get a bone spurs excuse.

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    • PhoenixDog@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.

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  • itisileclerk@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes but everybody will say to them “thank you for your service”. Fucking killers for hire.

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    • MTZ@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t know if that will be true for much longer. I think people’s attitudes on american military worship might be beginning to change, starting yesterday. I’m already seeing a boatload of it.

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  • 0x0@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    While in israel there’s a draft, in the US it’s voluntary.
    Nitpicking but still an interesting distinction.

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  • CaptainMan251@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Saving this for later. So many fucking boot lickers loooove our country but will never have to worry about being drafted to fight ANOTHER pointless fucking war

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  • yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Imagine if we could all agree, every side of every conflict, that all the soldiers just turn around and point the guns at the people telling them to kill.

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  • xavier666@lemmy.umucat.day ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “it ain’t me, it ain’t me. I’m no senator’s son”

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  • rayyy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Losers and suckers, according to commander bonespurs. Why not abuse if you have them?

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  • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Netanyahu’s sons did serve in the Israeli military, although how much danger they were actually in is unknown to me.

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    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They’re not going into this war is the point.

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    • Limerance@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      One of Netanyahu’s sons was a press officer behind the lines, but the other was with combat intelligence at the front. 

      Israel is different in this regard. Everybody serves in the army. It’s also a small country. The military Is closely woven into society. The IDF is not a professional army, but mostly made up of reservists who are called up as needed. That means the political leaders will know people personally who have to fight.

      What unit you serve in can make a big difference for your later success in life. Combat units, special forces, Air Force, and intelligence have the highest prestige.

      Politicians benefit immensely in their credibility, if they have a distinct military career. 

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      • Gammelfisch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That’s fine and if the Israelis and US decide to invade Iran, the IDF can lead the charge with a an amphibious assault. Right? You know who else had a closely woven society between the military and society? The fucking Nazis and Bolsheviks!

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      • 0x0@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Starship Troopers vibes.

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    • Pricklesthemagicfish@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Lol yes im sure he wasn’t taken care of during his “service” get that blue and white boot deep boy does it taste elite?

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  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s my hobby, too. We need all the help we can get countering the Conservative Propaganda Machine.

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  • brownsugga@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It has been the rich versus EVERYONE ELSE since time immemorial…. Even the fucking Pharaos back in Egypt

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  • socsa@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Spicy

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    • MTZ@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      ¡caliente!

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  • RblScmNerfHerder@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “Why don’t princes fight in the wars? Why do they always send the poor?”

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  • zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My kids? Have the best show ever, thanks to the US.

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    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      man, you really raised some fucking psychos didn’t you.

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  • Pricklesthemagicfish@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Please change kids to sons.

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