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naraburns  nihil supernum  1yr ago (text post)   4087 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for February 17, 2023

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I just don't think the memes and the sentiment, rubber hits the road, *do *that much. Look how America pivoted behind Bush after 9/11; look how the blue-pilled urbanites, the most pacifistic anti-interventionist of the lot, were the prototypical Ukraine flag-fliers. People I've known who've joined the military do it because of the steady job and benefits, and because they're not straight-up spit-in-a-cop's-face anti-fed. Most military propaganda is just trying to make it seem like the actual job of being a soldier won't be *that *bad, either by making it seem cool or valorous, or, well - I found this lil compilation on 4chan the other day:

https://imgur.com/a/X89B3Mf

Behold, recruitment for Gen Z! It doesn't even try to be something other than what it is; if you try to be too sneaky, it tends to backfire. But showing a cute young woman doing military stuff, playing with your thoughts, even teasing you about your suspicions that she might be trying to recruit you...

Nothing new, of course, just a new medium. Remember when they used to put pin-up drawings on fighter jets?

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