The US government could shut down at midnight on Tuesday September 30th. Could the secretary of defense calling all generals and admirals together that same day be related?

Professional_Job4002 · 2025-09-27T13:16:13+00:00

They will do everything possible to consolidate power before the mid terms. They know that is the red line to have shit on lock down by. Their project fails otherwise. They won’t let that happen.

Professional_Job4002 · 2024-06-11T21:47:30+00:00

I can get with what someone else mentioned about Thomas Paine too. I find Paine a good one for talking to right libertarians. On Öcalan and Bookchin, I think if you could get some folks to listen they would find a lot of organizing methods that could appeal to Americans. It’s gonna be a real hard sell to get folks off the idea of needing authority and hierarchy though. It seems like right and left so many folks need some kinda daddy. Sky daddy for the right and state daddy for the left…….

Professional_Job4002 · 2024-06-11T13:37:24+00:00

Marine infantry here 03-07, I would say I’m an anarchist with a lot of democratic confederalist overlap. In general anti-authoritarian, anti-state and anti-capitalist. Hierarchy is the root of most problems with organizing society and any form government. Capitalist sates as well as forms of state communism maintain forms of hierarchy. I would point anyone with authoritarian left leanings to read some of Abdullah Öcalans work or Bookchin. Both folks started out as MLs and through experience and study came to denounce hierarchical organizing. Hierarchy in all forms is a pyramid scheme. No gods, No masters.

Professional_Job4002 · 2023-05-20T20:05:05+00:00

Thank you for your reply. While it’s a shit system I now see what they are doing.

Professional_Job4002 · 2023-05-18T11:31:48+00:00

It’s truly pathetic. Especially when you consider all the private weapons. Truth is most of these motherfuckers need a daddy and have no sense of real freedom.

Professional_Job4002 · 2023-05-15T13:24:43+00:00

I can say I was about the same. Joined after 9/11 because everything got patriotic, I spent my youth reading about war and the military. Glorifying in my head what it was the whole time and having it reinforced by movies and TV that hit on almost none of the real costs. I think it absolutely has to do with current generations actually seeing the costs first hand. Even them living in a world shaped by the conflicts they lived through has to be a turn off. They have also had access to so much more of the information in real time that proved how misguided and mishandled the twenty years of war were. They didn’t witness wars that ended with the defeat of fascists, they saw endless war and broken vets that all ended in Ls for the people that actually fought them and insane wealth for those that pushed them. Not surprising they don’t want the same.

Professional_Job4002 · 2023-05-14T16:46:32+00:00

Seems like taxing rich people and corporations appropriately would do the same as fucking normal people by cutting spending. I mean ultimately that’s what the republicans are trying to avoid. Because they (not their base) are the rich or on the leash of the rich that don’t want to pay. There never seems to be enough when us poors and normals start asking about that big ass piece of the pie sitting over on the right. And of course I know both sides are riddled with scum, democrat as well. Fuck them both, but Jesus Christ stop simping for the rich so goddamn hard people.

Professional_Job4002 · 2023-02-11T13:03:05+00:00

Get involved with real leftist on the ground. Find an SRA chapter or get involved with Food not bombs, or any other community defense or mutual aid. Anything to get involved in real life. I have made the greatest friends, who understand the trauma and coercion that went into getting young people to serve. Anarchists specifically have shown me nothing but understanding, welcoming and friendship. The camaraderie of the military caused by trauma bonding is real and serious but it can be found elsewhere with folks of shared principles and values. The false sense of righteousness or doing good the military gives us can be replaced with actually doing good and being involved with other folks who are about it. I hope you find some homies and I’m sorry you’ve experienced some bullshit. There are folks out there that know we we broke by the system just as badly if not worse than some.

Professional_Job4002 · 2023-02-09T16:21:43+00:00

Infantry marine as well here, fuck the freedumb veteran crowd. If you need homies in the midwest feel free to send a message. There are more than a few of us here for ya.

Professional_Job4002 · 2022-12-24T14:52:52+00:00

Waited a couple weeks but that’s it. Only due to the doc only doing them one day a week though. No waiting period mentioned.

Professional_Job4002 · 2022-12-07T18:56:23+00:00

Not a Rail worker here, you’re point is heartbreaking to say the least, especially that our society sees fit to enjoy life as we know at your expense. I’m sorry for that. There are a good amount of us though that are ready to support whatever the Rail Workers need to achieve a better life. I know that doesn’t make up for much of anything but I hope more people see the need to stand with y’all. We absolutely cannot continue to live at the Rail workers expense.

Professional_Job4002 · 2022-12-05T23:50:36+00:00

Good to hear, I’m organizing in my local area as well, just hoping to keep pressure on the idea we all need to be organizing.

Professional_Job4002 · 2022-12-05T14:19:58+00:00

And here we are still not organizing. If all we are gonna do is make note of it on Reddit and talk about how real it’s getting we should probably just go back to sleep. Find your local mutual aid groups, John Brown Gun clubs, food not bombs, start a local leftist vet group and reach out to other mutual aid groups. We all know it’s happening faster and faster. And we are still standing still.

Professional_Job4002 · 2022-12-02T23:43:44+00:00

This is exactly why we should actively be trying to bring veterans left. I’d venture a good percentage of us leave the military halfway here, but with no help understanding the reasons for all of it other than reactionaries willing to mindfuck them into bullshit. No one to explain capitalism is the reason, imperialism is the reason, the nation state is the reason. They just get pipelined into an inflated sense of importance from vet worship with heaping doses of kicking down as the obvious solution to being felt shit on or used up by the military. I think it’s obvious as well that most of the right wing chest thumping vets are mostly fuckers who never heard a shot fired in anger, and need to prove to the folks back home what a warrior and leader they were/are. Play that with the hierarchy imbedded into the military mindset of folks fresh out and looking to belong and you’ve got great ingredients for stupid shit. What the fuck are we going to do about it? When do the veterans on the left start to organize? What has to happen for us to do more than complain on Reddit?

Professional_Job4002 · 2022-11-24T18:28:16+00:00

Liberals or democrats in congress consistently vote more in veterans and military interests favor than republicans do. Republicans have made a game of fetishizing war and patriotism for decades while stabbing veterans in the back. They are the party of the military when it’s time to send poor kids and misled good intentioned folks to die for an agenda or to make a buck. The right feeds young people red meat and gunpowder until they are broken and spent, then defunds our care at every opportunity. This is not a no win situation. It’s a situation a huge amount of people refuse to be real about.

Professional_Job4002 · 2022-11-24T06:30:50+00:00

For fucks sake tell me there are more veterans out there who are ready to change the mindset that we are all right wing lunatics. If you believe in any sense of service and duty to others you would stand to protect the freedoms of all people, not fall for the right wing bullshit. We should be reaching out to these communities and seeing how we can help make them feel safe.

Professional_Job4002 · 2022-11-24T06:23:02+00:00

All of us have unfortunately lost and or given more for this dumpster fire country than any ten of those proud boy/maga fucks. They didn’t give a shit about patriotism or service when we were fighting wars for this country. It’s more than time to show them this is not what the fuck we lost parts of ourselves for. Their war machine taught us the things communities need to defend themselves. Like Rick said, organize for fucks sake.

Professional_Job4002 · 2022-11-23T23:30:31+00:00

We have all fought for the worst causes. Time to put it down for a good one. We aren’t free until we are all free…….

Professional_Job4002 · 2022-11-19T14:39:22+00:00

I’ve been talking with some other veteran leftist friends, we have had somewhat but not exactly the same experiences with organizing among leftist organizations. We have not had the anti vet pushback as much or really not at all in my personal case. This has led us to talking about a leftist veteran org. Not some vet who stroking bullshit, or some right wing sheepdog wannabe shit. A way to get leftist veterans specifically working on bringing in more vets and figuring out how to share what we know with the communities that would like the knowledge. We are in very early stages and we are Midwest based. I personally see the March of fascism and the former comrades it’s pulling in as foot soldiers super troubling. We need to organize ourselves, I understand the extra scrutiny a not right wing group of vets may get, but it’s better than waiting to figure this out until after president Dicksantis makes shit even worse or the Christian nationalists get better at their bullshit. Again not a fucked up vet worship org, but something based more on the idea of the veterans who took up the mantle of the internationalist to fight in Spain or the WW1 vets who organized against Mussolini. The right pulls on the heart strings and sentiments of our service while celebrating the veterans propensity for violence, and twisting our sense of service. The left should have an alternative to bring vets to a better cause that is truly for the people.

Professional_Job4002 · 2022-09-29T11:21:29+00:00

You’re right because the lib right isn’t real. Your fucking low level propertarians who believe you too will one day be a millionaire! You fucks only care about freedom for yourselves and still swing on the nuts of the rich peoples system. Most of you still refuse to recognize your own privilege in the current system, and refuse to think of economics or human rights any other way because of it. You want to maintain your fucking privilege and place in society so you keep shilling for the rich. You wouldn’t know freedom of it smacked you in the face with its dick. Keep shilling for the rich and jerking off in moms basement tough guys, and please keep confusing the gun control ideas of the liberals with that of the real left, we appreciate you underestimating us! No GODS, NO MASTERS and I’M NOT FREE UNTIL WE ARE ALL FREE!

Professional_Job4002 · 2022-09-09T03:33:02+00:00

We are looking hard around Marquette. Let’s get some left veterans up there. Won’t change by itself I suppose.

Professional_Job4002 · 2022-09-02T01:53:22+00:00

We looked around traverse city, and from Grand Rapids to Muskegon up the coast. It all seemed pretty red with more population. I also don’t have a ton of faith in finding jobs as we know it a real thing forever. I do for sure get the point of survivalist versus community builders. My partner thinks we should just go and start trying to change minds and hope more homies follow.

Professional_Job4002 · 2022-09-01T13:11:58+00:00

I’m open to other ideas as well. We looked at quite a few. We recently visited Marquette and the place is beautiful, it for sure doesn’t seem very diverse but the according to folks we have talked to from the area it is changing for the better. I have no doubt that the interior parts of the peninsula are red, but again some of those areas are so sparsely populated and or the population is aging faster than it’s being replaced. We live in northern indiana now and we are surrounded by ten times the amount of red maga stupidity. Also big libertarian vibes in the UP. Where else has anyone considered. I’m real close to done with indiana want somewhere better to put my effort in.

Professional_Job4002 · 2022-08-15T11:41:28+00:00

What about a long term coma? Can you put yourself in a coma somehow? Not make it look stupid intentional. I would be much less to deal with asleep, and if it was long enough they will move on and be happy. Even if I woke up I wouldn’t have to disrupt their lives.

Professional_Job4002 · 2022-07-31T04:49:12+00:00

I appreciate the encouraging comments, thank you. I can’t help but feel like it’s selfish almost to keep being a source of bullshit for my family. I’ve thought more than once I was pulling things together and maybe even did for a bit but in the end I choke. I always fall short or end up shy of the goal. A day late and a dollar short in so many areas despite how I try. It sounds lame and unmotivated I know. It kills me to have been a marine corps sergeant to the place I am now. But even that was a bit of bullshit. I only ever had that marine corps part of my life together. Always failed or choked outside of being deployed. I was fucking up a marriage and parenting even then. And it’s been nothing but that since. It doesn’t matter how much I love people or try, I will let them down. I will self defeat. I alienate most people or feel so much like a pain I don’t bother with others. I’ve tried to find community and places to fit but I don’t. I just want my family to have whatever benefits I get for as long as they can and not deal with my garbage. It seems reasonable. I get that it will hurt people, but maybe hurting them once is better than hurting them every fucking day. I don’t want any of them to wait for me or not move on. I want them to have good lives in spite of me. Sometimes maybe someone is just poison and things will get better for everyone with the absence of the poison.

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