question and answer
Q:
Do you know why you have the freedom to say the things you do? In a marxist country you would be shot for disloyalty to your country and or it's leaders. The very troops you are say fuck the troops to are keeping you free, keeping you free! This government may not be the greatest at this moment in time but it is the greatest in the world. It's really sad when people so spoilled speak out against the things that got them so spoilled in the first place. You sleep in a free country every night with little to no threat because our troops protect you. What I'm trying to say to you is disaprove of the government, disaprove of our leaders and when it's time to vote get off your ass and make a difference "vote" use your rights that the troops protect for you. Troops only do as the are told it's the leaders of the country you should disaprove of. So vote, be a man and stand up for what you believe in.
A:
hey man, if we could vote the plutocracy away - we would have done that years ago!
no one gives me the freedom to do anything, i hold that power all my own. if i were in Iran or China or say.. Iraq, yeah, i'd probably be shot or dead. so be it. i will assert my sovereignty wherever i am.
am i not "being a man" by standing up for what i believe in, right here right now, already? and how does "being a man" differ from "being a woman"? it sounds like masculinity is supposed to have some inherent nobility?
i can support individual troops. i cannot support the troops as a whole. my beliefs put me in direct opposition to what the troops do and who they serve. the troops know they are signing up to kill people, they serve the military industrial complex which keeps "us" in a perpetual state of invasions and bombing campaigns. the purpose is to maintain higher and higher rates of arms production and to gain higher subsidies to be spent on warfare technology development. and of course all these technologies will be obsolete within the next 5 years, so newer more deadly technologies will have to be developed! hooray!
signing up to be a part of all that, for what? college money.. to find a career cause you've been aimlessly drifting since high school?? honor!? yeah, right. you're going to have to come up with a better answer than that, private.
i don't want to fight against the troops, i want them to fight along side me, to take the power from the arms contractors, from the super rich and the bourgeois, alike. give it to the people who have been dying and killing in rich men's wars for NOTHING. give it to the people who've been divided, taught to hate themselves and each other. those who've been saturated with material wealth.. as if this would be enough to make them ignore the structures of power and domination, and just carry on.. produce, consume, produce, kill, die.. to no end.
give the power to the workers, the poor, the people.
thank you for your input,
andrew
i wasn't really satisfied with my response. it could have been a lot more in depth.
any thoughts.. on nationalism, the american empire, the iraq occupation, not supporting the troops, class war, etc etc etc?