Yeah, yeah, yeah...

Dying for big tobacco: omg what a tragedy

Dying for big oil: omg he’s a hero

Pick your corporate servitude carefully kids

Wanna see me stick nine inch nails through each one of my eyelids?

Copy me and do exactly as I did
- Pilot a drone and use it to blow up 9 kids

It should be pointed out that the vast majority of the military are in support career fields, not combat units. Also, the GI Bill absolutely makes it worth it.

Yeah less than ten percent is combat trained and tasked and only a tenth of them (so 1% of the total) are combat veterans.
Most of the people you've thanked for their service probably worked at a job that civilians do everyday like fixing things or doing paperwork. Just in a uniform.
- My primary job was a logistics account, but that meant I had to inventory high value items at Forward Operating Bases in Iraq and Afghanistan and I drove in a few convoys, only once anything significant happened.
- Generally speaking, a military career is the best means of advancement in social class for Americans. You'll easily move up the middle class and likely upper middle class or upper class depending on time served.

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Government: Tobacco is dangerous. You need to be 21 to buy it

Also government sending military recruiters to high schools:

[An image of a man in a red suit captioned with the text "Hi kids! Do you like violence?"]

Can't you, like, buy weed at 18? Or what about vapes? Plenty of literal children using those.

There's no state that allows recreational purchase under 21. Vapes are considered a tobacco product regardless of nicotine content and also require you to be 21.
Where I live weed is 21, tobacco is 18
- im guess im assuming you live in the us, but you might want to double check that.
  Tobacco sales to anyone under the age of 21 has been federally illegal since 2021.
- My state too, weirdly.
All tobacco and vape got set to 21 and over where I live so just military and adult jail as benefits of turning 18 now.
- Voting?

And youth ain't gonna have the chance to drink until they turn 21 ffs.

My parents would buy RTD spirits for my sister aged 15 when she was going to a friend's party or something. They're cops
In certain parts of America.

Forever annoyed that my students have to get recruiters in our school to show up and try to persuade them to join ARMY, NAVY, etc.

🫠 Worst of all was when one of them showed up on International PEACE Day.

Yeah, but on the other hand: fuck tobacco, smoking and all drugs. Drugs are for losers.

Yeah, but when you're stoned, you don't care if you're a loser. That's the point of getting stoned.