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How the Military Is Using E-Girls to Recruit Gen Z into Service
- 0xDEF 3y agoMint Press News is a pro-Russian garbage blog and one of their "journalists" was recently caught spray painting neo-Nazi graffiti to implicate Ukrainian refugees. https://twitter.com/michaeldweiss/status/1659536981305487363 https://twitter.com/michaeldweiss/status/1659536981305487363 https://brian-whit.medium.com/former-mint-press-journalist-painted-swastika-on-synagogue-to-discredit-ukraine-court-told-5be4cb458948 https://brian-whit.medium.com/former-mint-press-journalist-p...
- jokowueu 3y agoWell .... They won't get the brightest
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- civilitty 3y agoThe recruitment pipeline for enlisted personnel is a bit different from officers, which requires a college degree.
- webmaven 3y agoPlease don't conflate formal education with intelligence.
- smeej 3y agoThey don't want the brightest.
- mensetmanusman 3y agoThe ‘brightest’ can’t even figure out how to reproduce above replacement levels…
- namaria 3y agoThis idiocracy meme is part of the distraction. Proletariat literally means "breeders". The elites very much know they need to keep the number of heirs limited while expanding the base of exploitable populace.
- infamouscow 3y agoBrightest by what measure? It seems like you're placing a lot of weight on the kind of intelligence that favors office work and ignoring all of the artists, builders, monks, healers and leaders whose names fill history books. Brightest by your measure rarely get mentioned. Not to say historical impact is the most valuable metric, but it begs the question of what is your measure of brightness good for?
- mock-possum 3y agoBrightest by virtue of thinking for themselves. The military is famously opposed to that sort of thing.
- torstenvl 3y agoI'm sorry if that was your experience in the military, but it emphatically isn't what I've experienced, and is the extreme exception to what I've seen others experience.
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- soligern 3y agoI’m sure men of all intellectual abilities are driven relatively equally by their cock.
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- chillbill 3y agoSwayed maybe, but definitely not controlled equally.
- HKH2 3y agoCan someone saying or doing something infuriatingly stupid make no difference to how sexually attractive they are?
- johnnyanmac 3y agoIn reality, no. If you're attractive you and your actions will be perceived differently, and you can do a surprising amount of things in generak if you look like you fit in (attractive or not, but usually being attractive helps). There are hundreds of case studies of this over the decades.
- soligern 3y agoSexually attractive, no. But if someone is considering a long term prospect/wife then absolutely.
- throwaway920102 3y agoAnecdotally, I watch a lot of youtube content of areas like hiking, camping, vanlife, survival, bushcraft, DIY, homesteading, exercise, etc. And I see more and more suggested videos that take these topics but add in a woman wearing a bikini or yoga wear while doing them, often not speaking any English or at all, with strangely named channels. Imagine if every time you went to a library to go read and learn history or science or poetry you had to pass through and see Playboy/Maxim/Pornhub version of science and history pulling you away. And if you succumbed and opened a volume like that once, then the next time you visited that aisle you found they had removed 10% of the educational books and added in 10% more softcore porn. China banned a lot of types of content from their local Tiktok for children, but honestly we need bifurcated apps or ways to filter search results for thirst traps for adults too. It's not any different than putting chocolate bars in a health foods aisle at the grocery store or alcohol vending machines in a rehab facility. How many of our next would-be Einsteins, Edisons, Teslas, etc are being distracted by Tiktok, mobile games, etc.
- acheron 3y agoExcept YouTube isn’t the equivalent of a library in the first place, it’s the equivalent of a slightly seedy corner store. Sure there might be some mildly informative magazines on a shelf next to the Maxims, but that’s not the point and never was.
- throwaway920102 3y agoMy argument is, it's a vastly underpowered system in terms of the filtering options available to users. Those things ought to remain available, but I wish it were easier to tell Youtube my goals for a browsing session and turn off porn mode.
- comfypotato 3y agoYou could easily reword your comment as wishing there were convenience stores without the magazines. I agree with the other person here. It’s just the context of YouTube. Take HN for example: there’s little to no adult content on this site. I’m in a similar camp in that I’m frustrated daily that Facebook can’t figure out that I (admittedly a single 30 male) don’t want the lewd content. I say “show less of this” on every lewd post, but it can’t figure it out. That being said, I think the answer is fostering/finding other communities with different natures rather than changing Facebook or YouTube to be something they aren’t.
- slibhb 3y agoWe've come a long way since Vera Lynn. Whether it's for the military or not, I find these women's behavior gross and their followers pathetic. It feels like we're veering into post-feminist territory where attractive, charismatic women can market themselves on the internet and society can't offer a reasonable objection without resorting to social conservatism.
- NoZebra120vClip 3y agoIronically, the widespread use of contraception and abortion means that women are much more likely to be used and abused, treated as objects, and discarded as disposable, rather than loved, respected, and cherished by men who are attracted to them. They've claimed that this is their choice, that this is empowering, that the alternative was slavery and oppression, but I'm not sure how many sincerely believe those slogans. This was all foreseen and predicted. The world was warned, but the world pressed on blindly.
- HeyLaughingBoy 3y agoAnd what's the woman's perspective in all this?
- cbg0 3y agoYou forgot to add a bunch of [citation needed]
- NoZebra120vClip 3y ago> You forgot to add a bunch of [citation needed] Well if you're the one who needs citations, no problem. https://www.vatican.va/content/pius-xi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xi_enc_19301231_casti-connubii.html https://www.vatican.va/content/pius-xi/en/encyclicals/docume... Casti connubii, Pope Pius XI, 12/31/1930: released to coincide with the Anglican Lambeth Conference. Paragraphs 45-48, 51, 63-67, 71, 75, 106. https://www.vatican.va/content/paul-vi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-vi_enc_25071968_humanae-vitae.html https://www.vatican.va/content/paul-vi/en/encyclicals/docume... Humanae vitae, Pope Saint Paul VI, 7/25/1968: released in response to the hormonal contraceptive pill (not to mention the "sexual revolution" while the Vietnam War raged on). HV is remarkably short, and I recommend reading it in full if you have a few minutes. But you want citations: Paragraphs 3, 7, 10, 13, 14, 16, and finally, the predictions and anticipation are laid bare in paragraph 17. "Another effect that gives cause for alarm is that a man who grows accustomed to the use of contraceptive methods may forget the reverence due to a woman, and, disregarding her physical and emotional equilibrium, reduce her to being a mere instrument for the satisfaction of his own desires, no longer considering her as his partner whom he should surround with care and affection."
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- paddw 3y agoThis isn't "the military" doing anything, these are individuals taking their own initiative. (Military probably doesn't mind though.) Are droves of young men really being driven into the ranks of the army in frenzies of desire? I somehow doubt it.
- probably_wrong 3y agoI've never been in the military, but I doubt recruits are allowed to show up wearing full makeup and long flowing hair to shoot internet videos without at least the authorization of their superiors. And I doubt their direct superior has the authority to decide that by themselves. You never know which classified information can be guessed from a single picture, much less a series of videos. As for the "droves of young men", propaganda works. The fact that the military had cooperated with 10k Hollywood Films attests to that. They may not join for her, but it all adds up in the effort for painting military life as cool.
- jonnybgood 3y ago> I doubt recruits are allowed to show up wearing full makeup and long flowing hair to shoot internet videos without at least the authorization of their superiors They can. As long as they’re not on duty, violating uniform regulations, or OPSEC, it’s pretty much fine.
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- chii 3y ago> painting military life as cool. So is the problem you have being the military using sex to sell(or recruit), or that their message is that the military is painted as being cool?
- rospaya 3y agoDid you read the article? Most of them are doing this as a job.
- fullspectrumdev 3y agoBased. I’d join.
- Pigalowda 3y ago“propaganda this propaganda that let me take a propa ganda at them yitties” Fr fr
- expertentipp 3y agoIs it only me who finds very creepy these short videos of influencers making grimaces with few seconds of indistinguishable deep bass music in the background? I feel my brain gets damaged when watching this. It's like sipping espresso through a straw all the time.
- RGamma 3y agoNot only you. Presumably regulars of this media don't possess anything damagable.
- punkspider 3y agoI'm frustrated because it has always bothered me and it tells me nothing, but people keep doing it, so there must be a demographic to whom it appeals to.
- Havoc 3y agoPresumably you end up with a bunch of guys of the type that think metal bikinis make for great body armour and you can respawn if shot. I guess the military just needs people with a pulse
- activiation 3y agoDisposable people... But they get a special funeral
- thermalsauce 3y agoThe average civilian is more disposable than a service member. It is well known that a service member has more responsibilities and higher standards than their civilian counterparts. Hence the reason military experience is looked at with higher regard than a bachelors degree.
- Havoc 3y agoCan't tell if this is supposed to be a joke or just very American
- activiation 3y agoI don't think it's a joke... you get lots of benefits outside the military if you spent 4+ years in the military
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- StanislavPetrov 3y agoA despicable advertising campaign for military recruitment. Ironically our saving grace may end up being that such a large majority of Gen Z'rs don't come close to the minimum level of physical and mental fitness that this campaign is likely doomed to fail. >Less than a quarter of young American adults are physically fit to enlist and have no disqualifying criminal record, a proportion that has shrunk steadily in recent years. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/14/us/us-military-recruiting-enlistment.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/14/us/us-military-recruiting...
- deafpolygon 3y agoAny videos with "thirst traps" (as the article put it) gets a hard pass by me. I don't even bother anymore - I'm so tuned out from Instagram it's not even funny. I'm amazed at how effective it is at luring others in.
- expertentipp 3y agoPeer pressure made me create IG account. Scrapped it after 4 years. Every uploaded byte of data, every character typed there, every second spent there was sucked out of me by attention vampires. It's such an emotional and time sucking hellhole. Increasingly I feel the same about my resourced spent on Reddit.
- johnnyanmac 3y ago>I'm amazed at how effective it is at luring others in. are you really? It's a very simple exploit of raw human urges. And the amount of push-back against eroticism in society makes it all that more desirable to seek that forbidden fruit when presented. Combine that with the internet where you can make your own persona (or simply lurk, unbeknownst to any and everyone except the algrithm overlords) and eliminate any social risk and you got a recipe for drawing in almost anyone.
- jabroni_salad 3y ago"Wait, that actually works on people?" is one of the more common hallmarks of the asexual experience. I always knew that sex sells but the extent to which it does is surprising to those of us that don't experience it. A whole other world. Especially for the segment of the space that are repulsed due to medical issues or difficult past experiences. The struggling religious segment probably gets it.
- activiation 3y agoAre they at least certified to be disease-free?