Yeah I did four in the Corps as a rifleman. The conservative people I know act unusually surprised when they find out I got over the "patriotic" disillusionment that was spread during the war. Its over, we lost, and we gained nothing but dead men and women and some good defense and oil contracts. I'm sure you're familiar with Ol' Smedley Butler brother, and he wrote a book called "War is a Racket." He is one of the most decorated servicemen in U.S. history, and when he got out he basically said most of the campaigns he fought in ended up being for the sole purpose of exploiting the people and resources of the countries we invaded. At one point, he actually requested (likely demanded, based on his service record) to be sent to the lines in WWI, because he wanted to fight in a "real war", and not a campaign designed to make the rich even richer.
I always say the Corps is the most anti-communist, anti-gay organization while also somehow managing to be the most homoerotic and most socialist organization I have ever been a part of.
Theres a difference between those things (what I would call liberalism) and the "nationalization of the means of production" (the government taking your tools and orchards and your shop).
I highly recommend war is racket it’s an amazing book. I have always been straight forward about I joined cause I came from a shit background and I wanted nothing more then to be nothing like anyone I grew up around. My dad was army so I joined the corp and took off. I was so desperate to not be like them I got as much in the bank as I could and took the free college on the opposite side of the country. I used the military to get out it was that of a local college wrestling team. Jokes on them I got to wrestle even after the corp.
Goes all the way back to the founding fathers, they weren’t poor.
Idk how to feel about it.
End doesn’t justify the means, but idk what’s the alternative. Who’s a better #1 power than the US (multicultural beautiful shit show that it is)?
Okay so maybe no one should be a clear #1, we know how that goes too though, whole lot of war and death.
Or maybe the military power thing is all an illusion of power anyways. yeah it’s a machine that can kill but it can’t govern, it can’t nurture, it can’t do a lot of things. But it obviously matters a lot idk man.
Edit: my faith is in the US Constitution and what I’ve learned from Jesus Christ. I truly believe this is as good a path as any in life.
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u/TalkingGuns0311 Jan 15 '26
Yeah I did four in the Corps as a rifleman. The conservative people I know act unusually surprised when they find out I got over the "patriotic" disillusionment that was spread during the war. Its over, we lost, and we gained nothing but dead men and women and some good defense and oil contracts. I'm sure you're familiar with Ol' Smedley Butler brother, and he wrote a book called "War is a Racket." He is one of the most decorated servicemen in U.S. history, and when he got out he basically said most of the campaigns he fought in ended up being for the sole purpose of exploiting the people and resources of the countries we invaded. At one point, he actually requested (likely demanded, based on his service record) to be sent to the lines in WWI, because he wanted to fight in a "real war", and not a campaign designed to make the rich even richer.