The thing that amuses to me is a lot of the laws and rhetoric around these matters presume a draft. But we haven't had that for years.
Instead, you had folks who signed up for the national guard thinking they'd just screw around with fancy guns in the woods 2 weeks a year absolutely apoplectic they might actually be put in harm's way.
I remember still being a teenager in Appalachia and being made to feel like you're a hair shy of an agent of foreign power if you suggested the best way to "support the troops" was to say no illegal wars of aggression that put them in harm's way instead of slap a yellow ribbon magnet your car and say let's bomb Iran too.
You haven't truly lived until you tell some aggressive moron wh very purposefully signed up for the infantry because they wanted to kill people of color in an illegal oil war that you don't give a single solitary fuck what they think, you don't thank them for their so called service and that many Marines died at Okinawa died for your right to say that, and that if they don't get their hands out of their pockets and step back you're going to invoke stand your ground and call their wing commander or whoever the fuck is in charge of them to collect the body.
(Many, many folks sing a song about the constitution but break down when you use it for anything other than greasing the wheels of the military industrial complex, and it's DIGUSTING.)
Instead, you had folks who signed up for the national guard thinking they'd just screw around with fancy guns in the woods 2 weeks a year absolutely apoplectic they might actually be put in harm's way.
I remember still being a teenager in Appalachia and being made to feel like you're a hair shy of an agent of foreign power if you suggested the best way to "support the troops" was to say no illegal wars of aggression that put them in harm's way instead of slap a yellow ribbon magnet your car and say let's bomb Iran too.
You haven't truly lived until you tell some aggressive moron wh very purposefully signed up for the infantry because they wanted to kill people of color in an illegal oil war that you don't give a single solitary fuck what they think, you don't thank them for their so called service and that many Marines died at Okinawa died for your right to say that, and that if they don't get their hands out of their pockets and step back you're going to invoke stand your ground and call their wing commander or whoever the fuck is in charge of them to collect the body.
(Many, many folks sing a song about the constitution but break down when you use it for anything other than greasing the wheels of the military industrial complex, and it's DIGUSTING.)