History repeatedly shows, anyone who joins the military forces will be abandoned and left to their own devices, with no support, when / if they manage to survive and return from whatever battlefield they are sent to. Unless they are a top flight commissioned officer, who gets a gig on HoL or similar. And any commander or training officer in the military will tell you, reluctant recruits are the worst possible kind of soldier. They don’t want be there, and they don’t particularly care about the consequences. They just want out. Don’t know what world Starmer and his advisors are living in - but it certainly isn’t the real one the rest of us are in.
As soon as Austerity bit we had Army recruitment desks in the entrances of public buildings in depressed Northern towns. 'Twas ever this but this time it seems to be proactive policy.
They love "Our Boys" right up to the point where they're a drain on the Exchequer by wanting at least half-decent kit and living accommodation and can't wash their hands of them quick enough once they're demobbed.
The Rochester Recruiting Sergeant marches again… “Ah but I, said the young man, had long endured the parish queues. No more charity for the likes of me. Starvation and danger—they shall be my destiny, I'll take the Queen's shilling for Marlborough and thee.”
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He’s practising for taking people out of their beds because they were dreaming of a better place, where hate, bigotry and misogyny didn’t happen. When the govt runs out of police to do the job, they wil bring the the army against the people instead.
Except what's left of the army has been so shat upon for so many decades, both in and out of service, that I don't think that will work as well as he thinks. The police, on the other hand ... they have form for being used as a domestic army.
That explains the push on TV ads from Army & Navy. Maybe there’ll be enough responding to staff nuclear subs & the Prince of Wales engineering disaster.
I'm pretty sure from what I've seen it's happening across quite a lot of Europe 😔 I don't have a TV, so I don't see the ads, but I can imagine the glossy "ooh, war's such a big adventure, it's just like those video games you kids like" style.
They plaster it all over trams and billboards, and worm their way into the campus too, via not only posters but actual camo spangled dickwaffles fucking around at the admin hubs and such. If they want my students, they'll have to go through me
How are the students reacting? I assume there was a pro-Palestine movement on your campus last year, so I can't imagine it's going down that well. Conscription is just around the corner.
Students often don't even have the tools to engage with challenging the establishment of the academia, but even if they're slow to mobilize sometimes, they tend to at least do *something*...mostly if someone eg. deans misuse their powers. So slowly but surely the solidarity is building, especially with how cross-mobilization is becoming a thing, we just need to make sure it doesn't fizzle out.
The biggest setback I see is that everything is usually centered around the latest most salient political offense and that kind of strangles building strong, long-lasting and intersecting networks of solidarity...and the culture of apathy too
I hear you. It feels like the shortening of attention spans over the years, and the grinding down of expectations across all demographics, is going to play right into the hands of the fash.
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And any commander or training officer in the military will tell you, reluctant recruits are the worst possible kind of soldier. They don’t want be there, and they don’t particularly care about the consequences. They just want out. Don’t know what world Starmer and his advisors are living in - but it certainly isn’t the real one the rest of us are in.
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“Ah but I, said the young man, had long endured the parish queues.
No more charity for the likes of me.
Starvation and danger—they shall be my destiny,
I'll take the Queen's shilling for Marlborough and thee.”
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And the more he pushes, the more likely it is to happen.
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I don't have a TV, so I don't see the ads, but I can imagine the glossy "ooh, war's such a big adventure, it's just like those video games you kids like" style.
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Conscription is just around the corner.
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