I have a right to be angry, though that was not written with anger. I believed in a country enough to join its military and be deployed, only to find it was al

I have a right to be angry, though that was not written with anger. I believed in a country enough to join its military and be deployed, only to find it was all a lie. People I know died to enrich oil companies and the military industrial complex. I’ve reduced my consumption to the bare minimum. No home and few possessions, and spent a large chunk of my savings buying an EV because when I think about using oil, I see the blood on my hands. I’ve worn the same clothes (shifting undergarments daily obviously) for over 4 years now and got a vasectomy to prevent perpetuating the cycle of suffering. These are the lengths I gladly go because of these things. But I live in a country of people who can’t be bothered to make even the most minimal of sacrifice or change, who smile and tell me “thank you for your service” while wasting precious non-renewable resources that poison and pollute the land, acquired with the deposit of blood from my brothers & sisters & true countrymen, without reserve. To fit in. To feel big and bad. And very, very rarely for actual functional purpose. Turning the blood of my people into a fun time. And these are the very same people that, while living in practical mansions while their children are increasingly homeless & jobless & futureless, pass misguided policy like an EV tax. I try and talk on HN with a level head. But what I am talking about now should make any rational mind objectively furious. I love my fellow man — but love the infinite cosmic future of man more, with trillions of humans spread throughout the cosmos. I would never jeopardize that as all these people around us now are; misguided souls.