Comments by "Comm0ut" (@Comm0ut) on "Matt Walsh" channel.

  1. Today "thank you for your service" REALLY means "I have no idea what you do but feel slightly guilty for ignoring my civic duty in a democratic Republic to advocate for intelligent foreign and military policy I will never care enough to understand so I conflate supporting strategically counterproductive misfought constabulary operations with supporting the troops". The PUBLIC are NEGLECTING their civic duty to demand a professional, effective, ethical armed force because it's easier to feel their ignorant lazy feelings than engage the SAME PEOPLE THEY VOTE FOR to reform the armed services. The voters elect leadership and bear responsibility for that leadership. The Army has never been the service of choice if you want a career unless you know nothing about the Army (or score a tasty Guard or Reserve deal, there are many ways to serve). Even in WWII the Army Air Force got the higher IQ recruits by choice of senior leadership. I was born to a WWII ETO Army infantry vet father and grew up when the workforce was full of WWII/Korea/SEA vets. Not one of those men suggested anything other than the Air Force though they were proud to serve and this was LONG before modern woke nonsense. (It was however when the draft era armed forces required the rather large brig and jail system which no longer exists and goes ignored online because it's not a sexy part of armed forces history!) If recruiting were perceived as a real problem then Uncle Sugar would be defecating money to fix it instead of waiting it out. Money really does fix recruiting and retention but ya can't do it for pocket change. Anyone capable of being an effective Soldier, Sailor, Marine, Airman, Coast Guardsman etc can easily get a variety of good jobs if they make the effort. Military compensation is the price spectators pay to delegate war. That said all these eras are cyclic including varieties of "woke". Ask really old SNCO veterans (over seventy or eighty) about verbal quotas on promotion boards long before the personal computer era when it was easy to do anything on the down low. This isn't the first Hollow Force era either but the same realities that keep the armed service population young ensure they're nearly obvlivious to what came before them unless it's on a promotion test.
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  2. America doesn't want effective policing enough to pay for it. Cops who make the informed adult choice not to be fit get what that informed adult choice deserves. Backward places get backward policing due to backward leaders elected by backward voters. All adults making adult choices.
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  3. Cannabis lets me sleep a little despite chronic pain from neck, shoulder and back damage sustained in the Air Force. I can get by with lower opiate doses (my pain is permanent and excruciating like that of many vets I meet at my pain clinic) and function better in daytime. I wish the same level of chronic pain on cannabis opponents as they'd be singing a much different tune.
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