In all seriousness, working at the killing fields of a factory farm has life-long impacts that no one talks about. BOO HOO HOO!” (I might have made up the term “grinding colander.”) Oh come on, you fragile snowflakes! “EWAAH! I don’t like loading buckets of adorable chickadees into the grinding colander so they can be turned into a meat milkshake that will ultimately be served to a labradoodle or a puggle. … The report explains that for most potential applicants, the industry’s low pay is not the problem but that ‘people simply do not want to do this work anymore.’” Some 10,000 positions are unfilled at major abattoirs. A recent report “revealed that staff shortages at slaughterhouses threatening Christmas sales. It might be the only one where walking away can get you locked up in prison spending your days sewing McDonald’s uniforms, but there are a lot of moments in our messed-up world when you can turn your back and do the right thing.įor example, fewer and fewer people are willing to do the job of killing millions of animals every year. War comes naturally to sociopaths, and then it’s sold to the rest of us, much like a used car or an ill-advised timeshare in Cleveland.īut the military is not the only place where conscientious objectors play a role. But you do need promotion (Read: media propaganda) for our endless war games because it does not come naturally to most of us. It’s fun!” That stuff comes pretty naturally. … Don’t forget.” Or a commercial saying, “Try having sex some time. Like you don’t see ads saying, “Hey, feed your kids. ![]() For activities people naturally agree with or enjoy doing, you don’t have to advertise them. Why is it they would need to sell a war? Oh, I know - because it’s completely unjustifiable. When I learned how his death was covered up to sell the war, it was shocking.” “I did not have to let the military dehumanize me and turn me into something monstrous. “Pat Tillman showed me I could resist the indoctrination,” Rapone said. (Clearly our enormous globe-spanning military complex can obliterate any possible enemies except independent thought, which promptly turns it to a mush akin to pea soup.) Apparently reading about the true story of Pat Tillman pushed Rapone toward the realization that he was a pawn in the middle of a massive lie. ![]() war machine online and promoting a socialist revolution. One of the more notable soldiers who stood up this year was Spenser Rapone - a second lieutenant discharged on June 18, 2018, for disparaging the U.S. I’ll get to what this has to do with our inverted totalitarian corporate pillaging in a moment. That’s right - the biggest, toughest gladiators in our society have to get authorization to switch from boxers to briefs. ![]() They’re supposed to ask a superior officer for permission to wear a different color pair of socks. They’re supposed to do nothing more than follow orders. Nothing is more frightening for our endless war machine than a military grunt who thinks for him or herself. Basically, these soldiers do something horrifying, something terrible, something often called “treasonous” … They - wait for it - think for themselves! ![]() This column is based on a monologue Lee Camp wrote and performed on his TV show “Redacted Tonight”Įvery year a certain number of our soldiers decide they’d rather not be involved in shooting people they don’t know so that ExxonMobil can have more oil or Lockheed Martin can make more cash or MSNBC / Fox News can give their hosts topics for their upcoming poetry books.
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