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The most troubling thing for me, as a typical millennial, is that my little brother has lived his entire life with his nation engaged in some far off "war" that

by tjr225 8y ago

The most troubling thing for me, as a typical millennial, is that my little brother has lived his entire life with his nation engaged in some far off "war" that consists of carpet bombing an entire region - and yet here (in the US) there is absolutely no antiwar movement. Even the left wing media streams start getting pumped up when the drums of war start pounding. And here I am, paying my tax dollars to a government who spends half of their budget on lining the pockets of Raytheon and Lockheed Martin all in the name of "defense." I wish so deeply that this would change and yet I feel like all I can do is leave comments like these on various websites. There was some commenter on here who claimed to me that the citizens of the United States vote on having a military like this, and I thought about it. What are my alternatives? Who am I going to vote for that is antiwar? Every candidate runs on a platform of less world conflict, gets into office, and continues these policies of needless destruction whether that person is Bill Clinton, George W Bush, Barack Obama, or Donald Trump. So, I'm not sure exactly what choice the US citizen has in the matter. Left or right, it seems like the entire spectrum is very much "pro war."

13of40 8y ago
>my little brother has lived his entire life with his nation engaged in some far off "war" that consists of carpet bombing an entire region - and yet here (in the US) there is absolutely no antiwar movement It's very weird to me that a society that currently has, for example, a huge anti-gun movement, based on ideas like "every child deserves to grow up in a safe community", would at the same time treat the deaths of 10,000 people as a rounding error. But that's literally how we are.
- tjr225 8y ago
  It is weird, but I think we deserve to be able to both want both a world without needless war and safe communities for our children. Note that I'm not necessarily anti 2nd Ammendment. But to your point, yes it is very weird. War has become so normal that even your father in law or whatever will make excuses for the Iraq War - even though we know now that it was started on false premises.

by tjr225 8y ago

13of40 8y ago

>my little brother has lived his entire life with his nation engaged in some far off "war" that consists of carpet bombing an entire region - and yet here (in the US) there is absolutely no antiwar movement It's very weird to me that a society that currently has, for example, a huge anti-gun movement, based on ideas like "every child deserves to grow up in a safe community", would at the same time treat the deaths of 10,000 people as a rounding error. But that's literally how we are.

tjr225 8y ago
It is weird, but I think we deserve to be able to both want both a world without needless war and safe communities for our children. Note that I'm not necessarily anti 2nd Ammendment. But to your point, yes it is very weird. War has become so normal that even your father in law or whatever will make excuses for the Iraq War - even though we know now that it was started on false premises.