timberwraith @timberwraith@mastodon.social
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I was 17 when I figured out that the u.s. military was an intrinsically evil institution. As someone assigned male and born in the Cold War years, I fully understood that I'd possibly have to prepare for being incarcerated rather than face conscription for one of the united states' many overseas military slaughters. I would have rotted in prison first.

But yeah, I know that most people just blunder along doing whatever their fascist society tells them to.

And that's a major fucking problem.

Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social 2h Lotta people seem to think that had they been a 23 year old enlisted trained to follow orders or die, they would have had the balls to stand up to a Commanding Officer while deployed in Venezuela with the full weight of the US military bearing down and the threat of arrest and incarceration. Hmmm. K.W. Smith @pizzaisnotacrime.org 2h I was 23 and on deployment in 2003 when we invaded Iraq. There was no chance in hell I nor anyone else had the balls to stand up and refuse orders. I was also far too young and naive to understand what a horrible thing we were doing.
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