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W.J. Astore
America Must Reignite Its Distrust of Large Standing Militaries
The U.S. Military’s Alleged Recruiting Crisis Isn’t the Problem
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W.J. Astore
America Must Reignite Its Distrust of Large Standing Militaries
The U.S. Military’s Alleged Recruiting Crisis Isn’t the Problem
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A bunch of Silicon Valley tycoons think they’re going to build a utopia in northern California. We’ve heard this one before.
Shadowy Tech Goons Want to Build a New City in California. What Could Go Wrong?
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Kid Rock was spotted drinking a Bud Light recently. He claims it was research for a new book that he is writing. Kid Rock told Madhouse News, “Things are not what they seem. I am an innocent man, it was merely research for a new book that I am working on.”
Kid Rock Claims Drinking Bud Light Was Research For New Book
Pentagon scrambles to retain the main pipeline for new service members as disillusioned families steer young people away
The Military Recruiting Crisis: Even Veterans Don’t Want Their Families to Join
A ‘successful, deceptive’ PR campaign.
The devious fossil fuel propaganda we all use
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Ukraine’s security service has registered criminal proceedings against six “bloggers” in Kyiv who it alleges took photos and videos showing the country’s air defense systems at work during Tuesday’s Russian missile strike and posted them on social media.
Ukraine’s security service initiates criminal proceedings against air defense leakers
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H/T: Emil Cosman
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No concern, at all, about freedom of speech! If this had happened in Russia, this is how corporate media would cover it.
The U.S. Army Cyber Command told defense contractors it planned to surveil global social media use to defend the “NATO brand,” according to a 2022 webinar recording reviewed by The Intercept.
Army Info War Division Wants Social Media Surveillance to Protect “NATO Brand” (archived)
What is the outrage around Bud Light’s collaboration with a trans influencer
“From time to time, we produce unique commemorative cans for fans and for brand influencers, like Dylan Mulvaney,” the statement read. “This commemorative can was a gift to celebrate a personal milestone and is not for sale to the general public.”
All of these snowflakes boycotting Bud Light for one single can that’s not even available for sale to the public?! I just laugh! It’s all about marketing and sales! It’s not “wokeness”, it’s the “free market”! That’s capitalism! Besides, didn’t have a problem drinking Bud Light, before, and Bud Light was marketing to the LGBTQ+ community long before “wokeness” became a thing!
A 20-year-old photo of Kid Rock drinking Bud Light next to a drag queen has resurfaced online days after the musician repeatedly shot at Bud Light cases to protest a partnership with a transgender influencer.
Kid Rock Mocked for Photo of Him Drinking Bud Light With Drag Queen
Bud Light sucks, anyway.
Video: On The E-Girl Army Psyop Phenomenon via Justin Taylor
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But Haylujan isn’t the only E-girl using Sanrio sex appeal to lure the internet’s SIMPs into the armed forces. There’s Bailey Crespo and Kayla Salinas, not to mention countless #miltok gunfluencers cropping up online. While she didn’t document her military career, influencer Bella Poarch also served in the US Navy for four years before going viral on TikTok in 2020, and is arguably the blueprint for this kind of kawaii commodified fetishism in the military. An adjacent figure, Natalia Fadeev, also known as Gun Waifu, is an Israeli influencer and IDF soldier who uses waifu aesthetics and catgirl cosplay to pedal pro-Israel propaganda to her 756k followers. She poses to camera, ahegao-style, with freshly manicured nails wrapped neatly around a glock, the uWu-ification of military functioning as a cutesy distraction from the shadowy colonial context: “when they try and destroy your nation,” she writes in one caption.
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