My advice to people is never to join the military, even when the country doesn& #39;t have a proudly white nationalist Commander-in-Chief, even if it& #39;s for a POG MOS, even if the nation& #39;s not at war, even if it& #39;s just to be a weekend warrior

It will perpetually socially unmoor you

Like yes there are a lot of very good leftist/intersectional appeals to not in the military and I endorse them all! But I don& #39;t think any such appeal will scare someone so straight as the simple fact that a dark day WILL come, when everyone they know is a service member or vet

A day will come, when you are vulnerable, and broken, and in need of support, and *everyone* you can reach out to is a fucking hardass who takes pride in how much of a callous, pigheaded piece of shit they are.

Because those are your people. Those are the clan you& #39;ve joined

And this world doesn& #39;t give you mulligans. Not really.

You can reject those people, yeah. But you can& #39;t exchange them for anyone else. The window will have closed.

You can have *these* fascist motherfuckers, or you can live a life of noble asceticism in the gutters of society.

I, obviously, have picked my side. I& #39;ve chosen the august mien of abject gutter trash.

But, y& #39;know, better not to have to. Better to look for the family with which you actually belong.

In the military, I promise you, you& #39;ll never, ever find it.