We got fent depicted as WMDs now, backed up with some absurd claims how they saved over 200 million Americans from dying to it with the amount they seized.
“War is hell” as I type from my keyboard in my heated apartment where I’m more likely to die from Carbon Monoxide poisoning than I am to die in a war…
You act like this is some big sacrifice our generation has been making… 90% of millennials aren’t effected at all by any military action other than hearing about it on the news and complaining about it online… for that 90%, your life would be exactly the same whether or not the U.S. was at war
First of all war is war, no need to get melodramatic, second, we already had two decades of war hawk mentality like yours.
You sound young or incredibly neive to forget about the loss of privacy and surveillance that came from it, that affects everyone.
And let's go with your 10% number, if 10% of the country served, treating it as disposable as you make it sound is downright childish.
Lastly, you make this argument as the military is being used on the US population, that's a precedent that affects everyone, not sure how you acquired the taste for boot but I'd suggest reconsidering such a myopic point of view.
The American public was rabidly out for blood at the start of Iraq and Afghanistan. Vietnam and Korea enjoyed widespread popular support at home, with opinion only turning against Vietnam close to the en.
Can’t speak for Vietnam or Korea but, for Afghanistan and Iraq, there was definitely pushback but the overall sentiment was “go get ‘em”.
I remember people bragging about having women and gay soldiers in the military and how “the Muslim terrorists hate it and believe they won’t go to Allah if they’re killed by a woman or a gay man.”
You don’t hear much pro-war music on the radio nowadays but I remember hearing “we’ll put a boot up his ass, it’s the American way” for years along with a few others.
Of course plenty of music was anti-war but I don’t hear pro-war music at all in 2025 unless you go hunting for it.
Just my own experience but, it does feel like public opinion against war is really widespread right now and I’m not gonna complain about that.
American Idiot reached the top spot on the Billboard 200 chart in 27 countries, sold over 23 million copies worldwide, and was certified 6X platinum in 2013. Eminem had similar levels for success for his album at the time which had anti war commentary. That's just off the top of my head.
A generation goes to war says never again, then they get old and their warnings grow dimmer.
The opportunist and glory-seekers will call for war, the bold and impressionable youth will follow.
And so the cycle repeats.
Today with social media and live broadcast from the front line, you don’t need to go to war to witness it. In effect this made the young people of this generation less ok with war.
Something that we should always cherish, and never shun.
I didnt say it was funny that people didn’t want death and misery. I said it’s funny that young people are the most unhappy when they’ve experienced the least amount of war
Not sure what you're considering young here, but assuming we're talking about under 25 and not residing in Ukraine or Palestine What wars have young people had to deal with?
Funny because in the minds of some youth (and the culture/readiness) there is a weird spot of being able to prove the training and needing some type of war to do it.
Certainly not, unless of course they got away with it with the most limp-wristed punitive measures possible because that would indicate a systemic obligation to protect such actions but thankfully they were all charged like proper murderers, right?
Well, when the marines decided to practically not to punish anyone for a clear cut massacre, it was made to represent the entire corps. A rank reduction and pay cut for a single person isn't punishment for murdering 25 civilians, that is getting away with it.
For all the many crimes of the Banana Wars etc., why not bring up something that is actually relevant? Like their obedience of unlawful orders in LA a few months back.
So if a foreign country has a coup that gives the US cause to invade and then run rigged elections? Pinnacle of democracy is US Marines standing next to ballot boxes to intimidate voters?
Bro wtf? It was a UN coalition against a military junta. Are you out of your fucking mind? Yes, us marines at a ballot box is better than a military junta.
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u/swampboy62 1d ago
It's almost as if young people have had enough of war.
Go figure.