the myth of military intelligence and media literacy

The Navy meanwhile had a Shinji and Kaworu cosplayer making out with each other. Know your audience

It's not gay if it's underway!
- What's gay to civilians is brotherhood in the Army. What's gay to the Army is brotherhood in the Navy. What's gay to the Navy is illegal.
Wow that’s horrible. Where was this, exactly, and is it a regular occurrence?
- So you can avoid it, right? Because it’s so horrible? Where exactly so you can stay far away.

Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, one of the creative minds behind the original Gundam series felt the need to create the Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin manga because too many kids thought the War is Hell story to be War is Cool and felt the need to make it more clear.

Also, stack copyright infringement on top of the other crimes by the US military. Pretty sure Anno and the rest of Gainax wouldn't be happy about this.

There a a saying that it's impossible to make an anti-war movie, because they always end up glorifying war.
- It's actually quite easy. Just focus on the victims rather than the killers. Come and see, Grave of the Fireflies, Catch-22, All quiet on the Western Front, …
- You just need to embrace the glorifying war aspect like how Starship Troopers does it, and just be so ridiculously over the top that it's blatantly obvious how over the top it is.
- It would probably be easier if you didn't use soldiers as your main characters.

I went to an airshow a few years ago and the F22 raptor demo team was doing their show, which was amazing and the recruiter was working his pitch into the show the whole time. Between the talking points they would play music and the one that stood out the most was BYOB by System of a Down, which is a complete and total 180 to what they were pitching. It was incredible the cognitive disconnect.

Or the people setting up the show knew exactly what they were doing but their leadership didn't catch it
- As a member of the Air Force, I propose a middle ground. They just liked the music or associated it with badassery. They probably didn't think too hard about it.

If right wingers can like Rage against the Machine and be surprised they are not right wing or apolitical, NGE is way too subtle for them.

If you believed that fish story, I've a bridge you may be interested in.
- What exactly is a fish story? US military being in comic and anime cons?
  US soldiers trying to recruit young people posing with a character from NGE blissfully unaware of the irony involved?

Cool, now do a furry convention! (Great way to find IT for military systems!)

Unless they go undercover to research cat girls with military funds.

You are not immune to propaganda

I'm sorry, is their slogan actually "It's your time"?

Like when death appears and tells you it's your time? It's like they are recruiting for the losing team...

I don't think that's a valid criticism, I don't see death saying that, it'd be more like "Your time has come" - to contrast it further, wouldn't somebody say "It's your time to shine"?
- It's your time to serve democracy*!
  *Democracy being whoever is paying politicians to keep some war or another going for great profits

I have the sudden urge to go and sign up to the US Army

Ymra eht nioj!

All the military branches had giant booths at the last comic con I was at. It was very odd.

I've seen the LAN parties they have full of fembois. NonCredibleDefense has running jokes about armies of fembois, but it's more real than I ever imagined.
- I guess the enemy will be too confused to react once they see an army of fembois dressed as maids advancing. It works with the goddamn Maidman, after all
Well, you have to remember which kinds of high school the army sends recruiters to: all of them.

Military intelligence, two words combined that can't make sense.

Military intelligence is basically just about knowing where the enemy is. The actual espionage and counter espionage stuff done by non military experts. It has to be this way because the military doesn't exactly recruit for brains.
- You're having a conversation with song lyrics
Possibly I've seen too much
Possibly I've seen too much

I don't anime. What is she from?

Misato from Neon Genesis Evangelion
- I've heard of it but not seen it. Thank you.

Anno would be first to tell you: the con is full of fans who understood it less than the army.

What's with all the hot linked reddit posts lately?

I've been seeing a lot of people doing that.

Lack of content on lemmy so we go to reddit to find more. Linking to reddit images is easier than hosting them on lemmy by a few clicks and it let's reddit bear the brunt of the server costs without getting any content, comments, engagement, or other data to mine for their trouble.
Should I not?
- Now that you described the benefits of pirate CDN, I'm gonna do it more.

Give teenage me Gundam and I'd have done anything you asked me to.

Give teenage me a Gundam and I'd have done anything you asked me to, including eliminating Treize Khushrenada once and for all.
Fixed

Like an angel with merciless and cruel intent...

...hmm....

What, no Pen Pen?

TBF tho the corrupt insane military officials did manage to delay human extinction for years. Props for that, I guess.

They then launch a plan to turn humanity into a single heterogeneous blob organism, so that's not a win.
*glances at the close calls during the cold war.
More like a few reasonable people kept the nut jobs from nuking the world.

I'm still watching Evangelion. Angy bc spoiler. Although I guess I've had about a few decades to watch it by now lol

Would

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