I’d love to hear your opinion on people who commit violent crimes after becoming addicted to pain killers pushed by the pharmaceutical industry next.
You’re talking about one of the most propagandized populations in the world. Every single Hollywood action movie with a tank, plane, or helicopter is funded by military money and every engineering college owes its computers and other tech to donations by Raytheon and other defense contractors. Every time you see an American action movie, you’re directly funding the military industrial complex.
Army recruiters stalk the halls of highschools and even get kids’ addresses and phone numbers from the schools to harass them outside of school. Every single American kid is pledging their undying loyalty by the age of 10 to the flag in every classroom like the kids in the Hitler’s Youth program. The Red Scare is a linchpin in American society.
That’s not an excuse. That’s a reason to help you understand that systemic change isn’t instituted from yelling at a wall of dumb kids.
Systemic change is instituted from policies that incentivize people to do the right thing, not by lazily dismissing problems as a product moral failure.
Think about a country with subsidized access to higher education, healthcare, and social safety nets to prevent destitution and homelessness. High school kids wouldn’t be as desperate to join the military in large droves.
You can be angry at people who are the product of a system working as intended, or you can step back and hold people in power accountable.
No.
Being young does not excuse joining a gang and murdering innocent people.
American military fetishisation and it’s acceptance is revolting.
I’d love to hear your opinion on people who commit violent crimes after becoming addicted to pain killers pushed by the pharmaceutical industry next.
You’re talking about one of the most propagandized populations in the world. Every single Hollywood action movie with a tank, plane, or helicopter is funded by military money and every engineering college owes its computers and other tech to donations by Raytheon and other defense contractors. Every time you see an American action movie, you’re directly funding the military industrial complex.
Army recruiters stalk the halls of highschools and even get kids’ addresses and phone numbers from the schools to harass them outside of school. Every single American kid is pledging their undying loyalty by the age of 10 to the flag in every classroom like the kids in the Hitler’s Youth program. The Red Scare is a linchpin in American society.
Hate the system, not its victims.
That’s not an excuse. That’s a reason to help you understand that systemic change isn’t instituted from yelling at a wall of dumb kids.
Systemic change is instituted from policies that incentivize people to do the right thing, not by lazily dismissing problems as a product moral failure.
Think about a country with subsidized access to higher education, healthcare, and social safety nets to prevent destitution and homelessness. High school kids wouldn’t be as desperate to join the military in large droves.
You can be angry at people who are the product of a system working as intended, or you can step back and hold people in power accountable.