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the myth of military intelligence and media literacy (i.redd.it)
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[-] hoch@lemmy.world 98 points 2 years ago

[-] Mandarbmax@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago

Nothing can top this comment. Thank you.

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[-] TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago

How long did this take you wtf

[-] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 77 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 29 points 2 years ago

It's not gay if it's underway!

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] underisk@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 years ago

Wow that’s horrible. Where was this, exactly, and is it a regular occurrence?

[-] tkohldesac@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

So you can avoid it, right? Because it’s so horrible? Where exactly so you can stay far away.

[-] underisk@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 years ago

Yes precisely. It's very important that I never witness such depravity.

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 65 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] Magnetar@feddit.de 15 points 2 years ago

There a a saying that it's impossible to make an anti-war movie, because they always end up glorifying war.

[-] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 years ago

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, …

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[-] echodot@feddit.uk 14 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 years ago

I mean, there's a lot of people who really misread starship troopers.

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[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

blatantly obvious how over the top it is.

I don't know how to break it to you, but Paul Verhoven's satire pieces (e.g. Starship Troopers, Robocop) are a little too good. Far too many people miss the point, even today, with the entire film spoiled and then some.

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

It would probably be easier if you didn't use soldiers as your main characters.

[-] flying_mechanic@lemmy.world 55 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 43 points 2 years ago

Or the people setting up the show knew exactly what they were doing but their leadership didn't catch it

[-] The_Lopen@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 years ago

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.

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[-] freeman@sh.itjust.works 44 points 2 years ago

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.

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[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 39 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Strobelt@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

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

[-] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 39 points 2 years ago

You are not immune to propaganda

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 35 points 2 years ago

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...

[-] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 years ago

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"?

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[-] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 28 points 2 years ago

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

[-] breakingcups@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago

Ymra eht nioj!

[-] callouscomic@lemm.ee 25 points 2 years ago

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

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[-] jg1i@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago

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

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 7 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] flerp@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago

You're having a conversation with song lyrics

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[-] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 24 points 2 years ago

I don't anime. What is she from?

[-] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 54 points 2 years ago

Misato from Neon Genesis Evangelion

[-] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 years ago

I've heard of it but not seen it. Thank you.

[-] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 60 points 2 years ago

Just to clarify, Evangelion is basically saying 'don't guilt-trip teens into being soldiers, don't put them under the power of horny adults (however well-meaning), don't bully them or treat them like lab mice, and definitely don't cut them off from civilian society and the chance to form normal human friendships'. Seems some people saw all of that and only remembered the cool mechas.

[-] skulblaka@startrek.website 25 points 2 years ago

Just shut up and get in the fucking robot, Shinji

[-] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Shut up and get in the middle east shinji!

[-] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

I came to the comments trying to figure out how it was related to the Torment Nexus. You've clarified it for me. Thank you for your help.

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[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 years ago

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

[-] teft@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

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

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

[-] Mandarbmax@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

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?

[-] nxdefiant@startrek.website 13 points 2 years ago

Now that you described the benefits of pirate CDN, I'm gonna do it more.

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 10 points 2 years ago

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

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[-] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 years ago

Like an angel with merciless and cruel intent...

...hmm....

[-] neuracnu 8 points 2 years ago

What, no Pen Pen?

[-] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 8 points 2 years ago

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

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