Wednesday night PSA

[razorjak]

If you are between 18-35 and you did not vote even though you were more than capable of doing so, go directly to your local military recruitment station.

If all you blumbering asshats who couldn't be bothered to vote were inducted into military duty, we'd have no shortage on sniper bait.

You are all worse than the twits who voted for the smirking chimp. At least they voted. At least they made the effort to do something. I don't have to respect their intelligence or morals. But DAMNIT they acted! You callow sots aren't even worth hating.

By not voting, you've shown that you do not care what happens. Thus, you shouldn't care when you're thrown into a uniform, handed a rifle and told to go kill that village of brown children.

(*Again, this only goes out to those who were ABLE to vote but didn't. There are many in this country who care about what happens to her but are not able to vote. More's the pity.)

Comments

[montieth.livejournal.com]

We might have to get you a part in starship troopers....
;-)

[gruamach.livejournal.com]

Don't get me started on that book....I still say that's the best damned version of a democratic republic I've seen yet.


Starship Troopers (or, "how fascism and democracy learned to play nice toegether")

[montieth.livejournal.com]

Check your definition Gru. I don't think it was ever clear that the government in the book was in fact fascism. It didn't have a dictatorial system that was evident. There was a great emphasis on social responsibility, but I don't recall a strict sense of socioeconomic control, Rico's family was Phillipino, yet they had a large family business.

[razorjak.livejournal.com]

Only if it's the book and not the movie. Yes, I know it's hollywood. I know they have to show as much skin as possible. But god damn! How can that form fitting vest be anything like the kickass armour in the book.

Heh, do I show my geek points by admitting to owning the RPG that came out ages ago? No, not the one that Mongoose Publishing put out this year.

[montieth.livejournal.com]

Don't you just love the Liberal interpretation of a great book. 90210 in space.

Perhaps the old Box Set game with the pic of the Old Style Power Armor descending from space?

[razorjak.livejournal.com]

You're the first person outside my OLD gaming group who's ever seen/heard of it! I'm impressed.

The game was horrid. But what game wasn't back then? I used to buy them all. Runequest (- old school version when it was based on another world where you could actualy MINE bronze as it was the bones of the gods. -), Stormbringer, Villians & Vigilantes, Boot Hill, Tunnels & Trolls, Metamorphis Alpha (- does that show how far back I go in gaming? -) etc etc etc ...

[montieth.livejournal.com]

Don't forget Gamma World and Star Frontiers. I never played either of those, but I saw them.

[razorjak.livejournal.com]

Gamma World was what Metamorphis Alpha mutated into. (- Metamorphis Alpha was based upon a HUGE generation ship centuries after a radiation accident destroyed a lot of records and mutated most of the crew, lab animals, vegetation ... etc etc etc. Most had long forgotten that they were on a starship. -)

Star Frontiers was little more than Traveller Lite. So much so that, less than a year after it's initial release, it was revised into Alpha Dawn ( the rpg ) and Knight Hawks ( Starship battles ).

WOW, I am a gamer geek. Funny thing is, I've been gaming for about a quarter century, and never found the time nor need to go to Gen Con.

[montieth.livejournal.com]

WOW, I am a gamer geek. Funny thing is, I've been gaming for about a quarter century, and never found the time nor need to go to Gen Con.


Well, you do live pretty close, closer than I....

[jaws-of-life.livejournal.com]

Tell it like it is brotha!

[xsentrikk.livejournal.com]

So why aren't you president yet? lol

[razorjak.livejournal.com]

If I become president, would you be Marylon?

[geekalpha.livejournal.com]

Just to rattle your cage a bit more

[razorjak.livejournal.com]

It's gone beyond rattling my cage. The assfuck 'resigned' the general who told him we didn't have enough people over there to properly do the mission.

He sent in just enough troops to destroy the infrastructure of the country but FAR TOO FEW to secure the region. Now everyone in uniform is paying the price.

Then again, mishandling of the troops is a family tradition.

[montieth.livejournal.com]

Well, Shinseki was still caught up in the old coldwar mentality of look at a problem and say "I need another Corps to do it". In Gulf War I, that's what was asked for and Bush Senior said "you got it!". But this time around, the faster/lighter concept had to go because we probably couldn't have afforded the time for a 2 year training cycle to get the necessary units up to snuff and shipped to theater.

[razorjak.livejournal.com]

We could have afforded the time since there was no reason that rings true for going in the first place.

Afghanistan was something that needed to be done. Iraq wasn't. But now that we're there, there should be enough troops over there to actually friggin do what needs to be done instead of spreading everyone so thin.

[gruamach.livejournal.com]

If all you blumbering asshats who couldn't be bothered to vote were inducted into military duty, we'd have no shortage on sniper bait.

So...if they were too stupid and/or lazy to vote, we make the 2nd LTs?
Sounds about right.

[montieth.livejournal.com]

Gotta have someone to get lost, and you can't get lost with out 'l-t'.

[razorjak.livejournal.com]

I love you. Even if I don't agree with some of your politics. :-)

[prgrmr.livejournal.com]

My brother is over there right now. I will absolutely have to share this with him! Even if he's heard it before he'll appreciate it, I think.

[redroad.livejournal.com]

meh.
Although I am personally in agreement with you on the voting thing, I have to respect some of the reasons I heard for not voting. Well, mainly just one. That being that they could not conscionably vote for either Kerry or Bush. Me, I don't see why they didn't just go vote for someone ELSE, but I can hardly criticize someone for being less of an optimist than me... I suck so much at THAT lately myself even :P

And as far as making an informed decision not to vote, I did it myself this year too. I tried like hell to find out everything I'd need to know before the day came (even calling up the county board ofelections) & I still got in there and was like "What? There are court justices to vote on? Hot Damn!" And two of the local races I couldn't stomach any of the choices so I just passed.

Wanna know what I'D rather see all those non-voters doing? Learning about what is really going on (if they haven't already - & even that is... well it's not surprising given the fucking media) & then taking up in the streets en masse against this fucking war. Oh, how I would like to go to washington Jan 20th...