This hit way too close to home for me
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I should have joined the army.
Well you could have potentially died for the cosmopolitan rat bankers' sake in the Middle East.
You made the right call in not wasting your life on fighting useless wars that the elites want fought in order to profit from them.
Smedley Butler's War is a Racket is a great piece that anyone wanting to join the military should check out before making up their mind.
I also used to be cynical about the whole thing but after listening to veterans from all eras, mostly on JockoPodcast, I changed my mind about service. Even if the war itself is "unjust" and the string-pullers are self-serving, those who are willing to fight are good and patriotic individuals who deserve respect and deference.
Also, if you are a nerd, there are a ton of jobs that don't require leaving a base, or even leaving the country.
Back when I was in high school, for whatever reason, my entire class took the ASVAB test. They never really told us why or gave us the option to opt out of it (which was probably illegal), and most of us just thought it was part of a standardized high school vocational aptitude test that everyone took. We had no clue it was a test for pre-entry to the armed services. I did pretty decent in most of the sections and had recruiters ringing our phone off the hook for a couple months after that, before they finally all got the clue that they needed to piss off and I wasn't signing up for anything.
Hindsight being 20/20, I probably could have gotten into a decent position in the air force or army and made a career out of that, but this was also around the same time as things were winding down for the Gulf War, so chances were good I probably would have been shipped overseas, and I don't know how cool I would have been with that.
This is what I am going to say to my nephew if my leftist brother does not turn him against me.