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"protest is a fashion statement" is as deep an explanation for dissent as saying that people join the military because they like boys in uniform.
who knows, maybe both are true in some cases.
but hey, why worry about actually thinking about what you write since we can always bypass such expenditures of effort and revert to the low-effort, low-thought plane of stereotyping (it's great to have the lumpenconservatives around, lest you forget the centrality of stereotypes to that benighted belief system)....
so let's see what these new shallow waters look like:
irate, dousing what amounts to a nonsequitor with self-righteousness like a cheap perfume, apparently would have us believe that
(1) everyone in the military puts their lives on the line every day.
(but much of the military is support/logistics/coordination...)
2 therefore being in the military represents some kind of "authentic" committment while political opposition does not.
anyone can play irate's facile game: to the notion that any nitwit can show up for a demo, one could juxtapose the equally facile argument that any fucktard can sign away their personal autonomy by joining the military. it just requires a signature on a contract....
neither says anything.
both are worthless.
(3) irate apparently sees some kind of opposition between political engagements and the image of matyrdom that he attributes to military service. a marytrdom that is pure image in that it encompasses everyone in the military, from front-line troops to folk who procure food, from helicopter mechanics to secretaries for generals, from line cooks to waiters in officers' clubs--all martyrs in the world outlined by irate above--so it follows that everything thought or done by any of this vast legion of martyrs is better--more considered, more "real"--than anything done by people who are not of the corps.
this claim operates as such a deep level of idiocy that there is really nothing more to be said about it.
it doesnt even describe the military, much less political opposition.
it says nothing--but it does get people riled up
i think the word for this kind of thing in messageboard land is a troll.
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