My family has a long military tradition, going all the way back to the Revolutionary War. Yet now even they are telling their young not to join. My cousin's son in the Navy probably will not re-enlist, and his dad was a lifer and doesn't blame him.
That last statement should be stunning. At any time up to when it became clear Iraq was a quagmire, it would have been literally unthinkable to people like my cousin. Our military is losing its backbone, it's dedicated corps of NCOs--its master sergeants and master chiefs who know how things work and how to get things done.
That's partly due to the DEI insanity, but mostly it's because young Americans see no point in dying for an Empire which doesn't value the welfare of their own families.
Why are you picking on just the Top Gun Movies? Hollywood has been assisting with recruiting since the 40s. The Fighting Seabees. Guadalcanal, etc. Hollywood and the Military have always had a cozy little relationship.
The country was very different in those days, as was the military. But that was a VERY long time ago. None of those movies is relevant now. But Cruise’s films still are and he was the one pushing the recruitment propaganda.
I never watched another "Top Gun" movie after the first one. It actually was the music that I liked. I have never been particularly impressed by him as the Scientologist or absent father. I don't know about Hegseth to speak about him. Our military is now an effed-up disgrace and I would discourage anyone from joining.
They'll need another 9/11 or Pearl Harbor to really reverse the numbers either with a draft or some real rah rah sh*t. It's why tiktok has to go. Too many youths were waking up to the Zionist lies and the counter-empire narrative.
I hope TikTok manages to survive. They need some way to make it until Trump takes power. I don't watch political content on TikTok, but I love the animal and scenery videos. It's very relaxing and funny to watch.
I don't use tiktok at all but my nephew and his age group (gen Z) that I've talked to all have pretty based opinions on a variety of subjects that would probably shock their teachers. Tiktok was a pretty big part of that. I think the GAE is working from an old playbook and missed potentially a generation with having the propaganda plugged in.
I will laugh and laugh as a really old person, if it turns out the State loses it because they wasted their money censoring facebook and tweeter while they were blind to tiktok being where the young were actually at. it's like the printing press crossed with near global information exchange in a way.
I don't have a login for it so I only see bits other people embed elsewhere. but even as an old fart (or maybe especially as an old fart,) I disagree with banning it. censorship of damn near anything is directly unconstitutional.
At this point, I don't really care what happens to most Americans. Most are not worth saving in my opinion. Hell, I worked for the military for years and tried waking up people to 9/11. Showed one guy a video of WTC 7 crashing into its footprint and asked a guy what it was....he said it was a controlled demolition....and then I told him that it was WTC 7, a building not hit by a plane on 9/11. The conversation immediately stopped on his end, and he wouldn't speak further on it. This same person is a mid grade Army Officer. I sent out architects and engineers for 9/11 1 hour video to many staff members that I worked with, and it got no traction. Needless to say, I was extremely unpopular at this place. I straight up tell people with kids that I encounter to make sure they never join the military. I try to do my part whenever I can when someone speaks to me about joining the military.
so you've seen the meme with the kid in the striped shirt with wrinkled nose and caption "You all get/have/do <insert meme thing here>?", right?
if this were substack tweeter, I'd fix one right now to say " You trust people?" and drop it here because of the don't trust <insert figures of evil here> headline.
but that aside... I guess this is an overly nitpicky comment, but I feel you of all entities should be promoting the following thing. I either shamelessly kanged it from somewhere long forgotten, or it magically bubbled up in my brain.
everyone who's everyone knows the War Dept is REALLY evil. and then they slap the name Pentagon on a big, ground emebedded, Pentagram. sucking power from all the bureaucratic and or directly evil souls working within. hell, they probably built it right on an intersection of ley lines while they were at it.
It's the Pentagram, sir undead, the Pentagram. Pentagon is a public face, a whitewashing rename like the Department of Defense, and I don't like giving them the nicety of admitting to the Orwellian labeling.
sunlight is a cleanser, as I'm sure you well know.
My family has a long military tradition, going all the way back to the Revolutionary War. Yet now even they are telling their young not to join. My cousin's son in the Navy probably will not re-enlist, and his dad was a lifer and doesn't blame him.
That last statement should be stunning. At any time up to when it became clear Iraq was a quagmire, it would have been literally unthinkable to people like my cousin. Our military is losing its backbone, it's dedicated corps of NCOs--its master sergeants and master chiefs who know how things work and how to get things done.
That's partly due to the DEI insanity, but mostly it's because young Americans see no point in dying for an Empire which doesn't value the welfare of their own families.
Good for your family, OB. Bravo! I hope they keep their sons safe and out of whatever the next war is started by the damned neocons.
Why are you picking on just the Top Gun Movies? Hollywood has been assisting with recruiting since the 40s. The Fighting Seabees. Guadalcanal, etc. Hollywood and the Military have always had a cozy little relationship.
The country was very different in those days, as was the military. But that was a VERY long time ago. None of those movies is relevant now. But Cruise’s films still are and he was the one pushing the recruitment propaganda.
The fighting SeaBees is hilarious. My favourite line is (John Wayne voice) " I'm not afraid of Tojo and his bug eyed monkeys "
I never watched another "Top Gun" movie after the first one. It actually was the music that I liked. I have never been particularly impressed by him as the Scientologist or absent father. I don't know about Hegseth to speak about him. Our military is now an effed-up disgrace and I would discourage anyone from joining.
Likewise!
They'll need another 9/11 or Pearl Harbor to really reverse the numbers either with a draft or some real rah rah sh*t. It's why tiktok has to go. Too many youths were waking up to the Zionist lies and the counter-empire narrative.
I hope TikTok manages to survive. They need some way to make it until Trump takes power. I don't watch political content on TikTok, but I love the animal and scenery videos. It's very relaxing and funny to watch.
I don't use tiktok at all but my nephew and his age group (gen Z) that I've talked to all have pretty based opinions on a variety of subjects that would probably shock their teachers. Tiktok was a pretty big part of that. I think the GAE is working from an old playbook and missed potentially a generation with having the propaganda plugged in.
I will laugh and laugh as a really old person, if it turns out the State loses it because they wasted their money censoring facebook and tweeter while they were blind to tiktok being where the young were actually at. it's like the printing press crossed with near global information exchange in a way.
I don't have a login for it so I only see bits other people embed elsewhere. but even as an old fart (or maybe especially as an old fart,) I disagree with banning it. censorship of damn near anything is directly unconstitutional.
At this point, I don't really care what happens to most Americans. Most are not worth saving in my opinion. Hell, I worked for the military for years and tried waking up people to 9/11. Showed one guy a video of WTC 7 crashing into its footprint and asked a guy what it was....he said it was a controlled demolition....and then I told him that it was WTC 7, a building not hit by a plane on 9/11. The conversation immediately stopped on his end, and he wouldn't speak further on it. This same person is a mid grade Army Officer. I sent out architects and engineers for 9/11 1 hour video to many staff members that I worked with, and it got no traction. Needless to say, I was extremely unpopular at this place. I straight up tell people with kids that I encounter to make sure they never join the military. I try to do my part whenever I can when someone speaks to me about joining the military.
so you've seen the meme with the kid in the striped shirt with wrinkled nose and caption "You all get/have/do <insert meme thing here>?", right?
if this were substack tweeter, I'd fix one right now to say " You trust people?" and drop it here because of the don't trust <insert figures of evil here> headline.
but that aside... I guess this is an overly nitpicky comment, but I feel you of all entities should be promoting the following thing. I either shamelessly kanged it from somewhere long forgotten, or it magically bubbled up in my brain.
everyone who's everyone knows the War Dept is REALLY evil. and then they slap the name Pentagon on a big, ground emebedded, Pentagram. sucking power from all the bureaucratic and or directly evil souls working within. hell, they probably built it right on an intersection of ley lines while they were at it.
It's the Pentagram, sir undead, the Pentagram. Pentagon is a public face, a whitewashing rename like the Department of Defense, and I don't like giving them the nicety of admitting to the Orwellian labeling.
sunlight is a cleanser, as I'm sure you well know.
The only Tom Cruise movies I've watched are "far and away" and "War of the Worlds". Don't remember much about them either.