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I paused “a man's search for meaning” audiobook that I am listening to at the moment ( https://dailyprogress.org ), to read this article.

Compelled service offends me greatly.

Just as compelled speech, injections, religion, or anything else, is reprehensible.

I am happy to fight, suffer, and die for that which I choose. I fear not death, but rather I fear the acceptance of a compelled existence that I have no say in, no control over, because another in a position of “power” says I have no rights, no personal agency.

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Apr 24, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

Old men send young men to die. Propaganda is used to stir false patriotism.

The old men get profit and power, the young men are cannon fodder.

There is no glory in being cannon fodder.

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Apr 24, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

Reading this piece I was reminded of the war literature I like, then I stumbled on the Sassoon poem at the end. That's one. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien is another. I wish we there were no need for such pieces, as great as they are. Or that they could be powerfully distant, like the Iliad. I wish there were no reason for you to write this piece, Good Citizen. Glad you did, though.

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I'm weeping. God help us.

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Apr 24, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

As a combat veteran from that war 50+ years ago, I can only say no comment is possible nor needed

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This is the most powerful article I have read in a very long time.

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When they decide war got too messy it will be back to safe and Effective

Hacksxxxxxxxxxine depopulation with the help of big Harmaceuticals

When too many die, start a war to distract from the death by needlerape with more death....

Rinse , repeat

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Apr 24, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

“I look at that boy dyin’, I don’t feel nothin’. I don’t care about nothin’ anymore.”

Sergeant Storm from The Thin Red Line.

Alas, we find ourselves detached and desensitized to horrors that only happen “over there”. We watch and feign pity and disgust over those evil perpetrators of perpetual warfare and then turn that dull heart to our next self aggrandizing “Like” and “Thumbs up” on our virtual world of self hate and other torture.

Do we really feel anymore or are our hearts and minds deaf and dumb?

Just wait, for one day the tortured cries will shriek forth from the lungs of our children and grandchildren.

We chose this path, we watch and remain silent, we watch and then we look away.

Alas, what happens when we can look away no more.

Damn us!!!!

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The "war" in Ukraine seems to be an excuse for food shortages. Both sides are in it.

The most likely event at this point is a false flag attack in the US (EMP, biological/chemical and/or nuclear) in order to provide a basis for martial law and further shortages. Eventually, people will start looting and killing each other. With no fuel/electricity in December, the outcome is clear.

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Apr 25, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

What makes me so angry is the way in which, since 2020, the young and the poor have been sacrificed to protect and prolong thr lives, livelihoods and political interests of the affluent, powerful and elderly.

This might seem extreme to some, but the evidence accrues: children and young people locked out of schools and universities; deprived of normal socialising; isolated; play and games forbidden; terrorised and confused by masked faces and now sent to die in the conflict in Ukraine, while the wealthy, secure and entitled whip up enthusiasm for the war games.

As Sassoon's poem so rightly revealed, young men died in their millions, at the behest of crazed politicians and blinkered generals.

Why are there still no concerted efforts to invest in mediation, an immediate ceasefire and a negotiated settlement?

Why are children being vaccinated?

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Apr 24, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

Agree. And why didn’t the citizens of Ukraine remove the monster, why haven’t we removed our monsters...........behind all wars are citizens who allowed the monsters to flourish to make the next war.

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My heart sinks for all the youngbloods, thrust into a war not of their making - such a travesty.

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A part of the world that offered up countless millions for sacrifice 80 years ago. One lifetime. And now it repeats. Unless we stop it.

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That was brutal.

I wonder, though. Can the American commanders and the Azov nutcases prevent those young Ukrainians from just surrendering? Can't fight a war if the troops just won't fight.

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Ritual human sacrifice for profit and pleasure by the psychopaths. And the sleeperwalkers continue waving their fucking blue and yellow flags like it's a parade. Thank you, GC, for your powerful and moving words.

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Apr 24, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

Permit me to share this link. It's OT, je pense.

Biblioklept

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Judge Holden Holds Forth on War (Blood Meridian)

Posted on November 11, 2012 by Biblioklept

From Chapter XVII of Cormac McCarthy’s novel Blood Meridian—

"When God made Man, the Devil was at His elbow."

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