Look I know it's gauche to laugh at one's own joke but I really fucking got myself with this one.

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"Oi! You got a loicense for that period?"

I don't care how based a flag you show me on a kid holding a gun, I'm still going to say it's a bad thing. You absolutely do not have to hand it to them when it comes to militarizing children. That's fucked up no matter the ideology behind it. Is there wiggle room for teens? Maybe. They need to be prepared for the society and world they're going to be living in, and they have a right to begin deciding how they want to go about doing that. But if you're going to be handing grade schoolers weapons you've jumped the shark. Children do not have the faculties to properly understand the ramifications of holding a weapon nor to commit to an ideology behind such a choice. We can point to how fucked up the world is and the situations that led to someone committing such an error, but it doesn't make it any less of an error. Patriotic education? Sure, great, all for it. Sticking 10 year olds in military uniforms with weapons? Nope. We rightfully feel sick to our stomach when Israel commits atrocities against children because they are not respecting that children should never be a legitimate target. Anyone who would put children in a position where they can be regarded as such, on one side of a gun or another, has committed a grievous error.

bruh let's not pretend children carrying guns is based or something just because it's our side doing it. We all rightfully bawked at Ukraine creating little Neo Nazi military camps for their children, and sure the political messaging is different and all, but putting these children in uniform and carrying weapons does not do anything to protect them from atrocious violence. Does the empire care about brown children? no of course not, but no child should have a target painted on their back by an adult by being handed a weapon.

It's still undermining their own power in the long run. Having his base and America writ large sick and stupid is not a winning strategy for maintaining US hegemony. Recruitment goals for every branch of the military are way down not just because people are less ideologically motivated to join up, but because too many Americans are too physically unfit to clear the bar. Increasing the rate of childhood disease and disability is not going to improve that situation. Increasing communicable disease and making the workforce sick is not going to leave a good reserve army of labor around for their fantasies of reindustrializing. Having even more people become victim to the health insurance agencies and privatized hospital networks is not going to create a passive and happy population. The attitude you describe is not just myopic, it's self-defeating, which is why I think they must actually believe this grotesque anti-science stuff to some degree.

They will when I spit in their eye, mouth full of blood

I figured they'd take Kennedy out back and shoot him, or or whatever it is they do with useless endorsements after an election, having already secured his crank base's support, but they really let him in to fuck things up lol. I'm sometimes comforted by the fact that Trump and his sycophants are genuinely morons despite all the harm they cause. They must to some extent be true believers in this garbage.

Asbestos must be safe because it's mined naturally from the ground

THANK U FOR PROTECTING ME FROM EVER AFFORDING AN ELECTRIC CAR MR PRESIDENT. I'LL CROSS THAT OFF MY LIST, JUST LIKE "HEALTHCARE" AND "LITERALLY ANY HOME."

Does middle management just have untreated anxiety and are now projecting that onto everyone around them? Literally what are they complaining about here.

A lot of being a leftist means spelling out just how grotesque and violent libs are to their faces because they can't connect the dots by themselves. There are no constellations to these people, only twinkling lights.