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badolmen · 5 months

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It’s actually kinda insane how inescapable the war machine is. My uncle helped build blackhawks for Sikorsky. My little brother worked at a machining factory that makes the firing pins for almost every major arms manufacturer in the country. GE and BAE have career fair booths for hiring the computer science majors who will write code for their missiles and drones. ROTC has teenagers LARPing as soldiers. This shouldn’t be fucking normal.

#ra speaks #personal #military industrial complex #this isn’t some ‘omg I can’t believe I never noticed - ‘ post I’m just.#tired? sad? disappointed? in my high school civics class we learned how post wwii there was fear that the army wouldn’t #dissolve the way it had after wwi (because grrr can’t let the reds get the upper hand!)#and it’s just like. yeah ofc there’s more complicated nuanced etc. factors involved but really #the war machine feels inescapable in my daily life and I’m more distressed that most people don’t mind being a cog in that machine

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