Thank You For Your Service
May 12th, 2019 | 
Author: We have to drain from every young man in America the notion of heroism by promise of the United States Military.
There is nothing noble there.
When the best choice afforded them upon coming of age is the glory of defending our freedoms, they’ve been indoctrinated and set aside as an asset for American corporations. Convenient to disappear when necessary.
Cannon fodder.
Instead of thanking a Vet for his service, lament what he sacrificed for Dupont or Raytheon. Kissinger or Israel. All that are not slaughtered or maimed in combat will still dream and eventually die suffering the horror they participated in.
Their pride is false. They accomplished nothing. America used them. America expended them. America kills everyone that resists. America never stops. Our soldiers come home broken and we hide them.
Nothing to be proud of there.
They start as boys. As girls. They end up adults suffering from every imaginable hell in their heads for one despicable fucking reason. The appetites and greed of the rich. The elites. Avaricious sociopaths presenting themselves as politicians, world leaders, media figures and philanthropists, business tycoons and religious icons.
Capitalism and capitalists.
It has always been this way in America. I don’t pity our soldiers but they are pathetic. Every one of them a victim. Not a hero among them. Nobody’s fault but ours. We suffer more and more for the violence we visit on the world but we still let it go on. We always have and we always will. Restive complacency. Pissed off but still not paying attention. The 19th century was a circle of hell for the common man in this country. Black, white, brown or female.
The exact same reason we ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
We’re just getting started.
Again.
Textbooks utterly fail at including or detailing the violence necessary for stifling and oppressing the 19th century worker in America. Soldiers delivered it.
Our constitution remains a work of eloquence and prescience. These were smart men. That doesn’t change the fact that it was written by rich white men for rich white men.
The rich and powerful are more rich and powerful than ever. The only tool they’ve ever had is soldiers and the goddamn cops.
Police are soldiers.
The last thing young American men and women need is a murdering military that sucks the human dignity of education and health care out of their pockets. Make health care and education automatic and there won’t be any soldiers left who even have to give a shit about life after battle. They just won’t go. Wouldn’t the world be so much better if soldiers had no reason to sign up? If they started a war and nobody showed up?
Support our troops? Fuck that shit.
End capitalism by ending war.
Or hang the rich.
Drinks for my friends.
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The powers that be simply wait a generation and begin their agenda all over again. Wait long enough for the ones who lived through it to get old and have kids of voting age who have long since stopped listening to the stories their parents tell. We repeat history constantly. It’s like we’re stuck on a tape that just keeps recording over itself. The sad thing is that the American people, as a whole, are mostly kind and caring people. The environment will change everyone at some point, though. You can’t live in turmoil and poverty and hopelessness and not be changed by it. I think we will all be feral by the time they’ve completely destroyed everything. Maybe that’s how we’ll need to be to survive.
The road to stopping this nonsense is Bernie Sanders. This is why both sides are against him. He promises to make government for the people instead of for the corporations, meaning the military would be seriously curtailed, and, separately, politicians would no longer be able to accept bribes (contributions). Neither the Dems nor the Repubs could stomach losing their gravy train. Unfortunately, with everyone against him, we’re destined to get a corporate democrat or Trump in 2020, so none of this will change.
The road to stopping this is we “the deplorables”. No one as President or anyone else in Washington, D.C. will be allowed to live long enough to stop or change anything.
Another biting and timely critique of the death-cult called “capitalism”. Totalitarian capitalism is the problem, not free enterprise itself. Like most socioeconomic systems, it functions best on small scales when everyone is on a first name basis.
But this is Capitalist Communism. A mean, massive and perverse form of forced collectivism whereby the underclass collectively serves the state, and the state is an apparatus utterly infiltrated, corrupted and controlled by a handful of corporate entities and the bazillionairs who own them. Multinational, stateless corporations that “influence our elections” by flat-out purchasing them, and then putting the officials elected on their payrolls.
Make no mistake: This sort of disaster capitalism is every bit as murderous as Stalinist, Maoism, or Nazism. It’s core moral failure lies at the heart of of all totalitarian systems, and it is baked into the very nature of totalitarianism itself:
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Lord Acton’s words have proved murderously true time and time again.
Thank YOU for YOUR service in tirelessly pointing out the failures of America to reckon with it’s worst impulses. You are a true patriot.
That one was a diamond to the cranium, fuck sake and spot on.