This is what happened to some men who "fought for their countries" in the past

LAMGE2 · 2024-12-28T16:03:49+00:00

What is the solution to make men realize they are expandable? I hope in the future some crazy scientist develops a virus or something that infects everyone and stops these “genes” telling us men are less worthy of life. Even if it means less generations, it means better lives for men.

mrmensplights · 2024-12-28T19:34:29+00:00

There is quote often attributed to Stalin, although probably incorrectly: "The death of one man is a tragedy; the death of millions is a statistic."

Unfortunately, at the scale of war, the dead are not often treated with the dignity and humanism we would had someone died in our own lives. To avoid disease we often put bodies in trenches and burn them en masse. I don't know the the psychology at play, but it does not surprise me that the unscrupulous would find ways to exploit the large amount of faceless dead. War is a horror show.

Gross, but an interesting modern day version of the same phenomenon might be how the discarded foreskin of countless unnecessary and cosmetic circumcisions done on baby boys is used to create foreskin-derived fibroblasts, which contain high concentrations of collagen and growth factors, packaged and sold to rich women for holistic medicines, creams etc. that claim to have anti-aging, healing, and regenerative properties.

SidewaysGiraffe · 2024-12-28T17:27:36+00:00

The entire purpose of medals and statues is to blind young men to the brutal suicides they're being asked- or forced- to commit.

I don't know what it's like in the rest of the world, but here in the US, the propaganda- at every level- is all about "protecting American freedom" by acting as the armed enforcement branch of the world's biggest threat to said freedoms- the American government. It's literally the equivalent of encouraging people to "protect the lives of American civilians" by joining Al-Qeda.

These institutions are so revered that neither the politicians nor the hoi polloi can be honest about what they even DO, which is to keep us SAFE. Kipling could- but that was over a century ago.

Confident_Truck424 · 2024-12-28T17:14:45+00:00

Yeah, but it was a common thing at the time

tbombs23 · 2024-12-29T04:40:53+00:00

Without their consent that is despicable.

Personally, I would love to be returned back to the earth and fertilize a new tree seed and every part of me used for a purpose if possible. But that's my personal wish upon my death, and not following a person's last will and testament is shameful and dishonorable, no matter what that will is. If someone does not wish to be cremated, and then they are, it's unacceptable. Or visa versa.

Apparently men are not only expendable but our dying wishes are not taken seriously and are completely disregarded.

Excellent_You5494 · 2024-12-28T18:42:10+00:00

Teeth, maybe.

Fertilizer, probably not.

This was not unique to soldiers in the times.

Clockw0rk · 2024-12-28T16:30:18+00:00

Well duh. And George Washington's dentures featured the teeth of slaves.

The right has been tricked into believing the "woke" is your biggest enemy, and that you need to fight against it above all else.

The American Left has been tricked into believing that "the patriarchy" is your biggest enemy, and that you need to fight against it above all else.

The truth has always been... it's the rich and powerful, the plutocrats, the oligarchs and the monopolists that are your enemies. They steal your wages, they plunder your bodies, they deny you basic human rights like healthcare and education and clean, comfortable living spaces. They steal the food from your children's mouths, shutter their schools, and then balk at your response and demand you keep having babies as the infrastructure necessary to raise healthy children crumbles to dust at their behest.

The enemy has always been the capitalists.

They profit from the wars. They know each soldier sent off to die is another kit of armor and weaponry purchased from their partners, making them richer as a result. The unnecessary conflicts for resources and the fighting over non-newable energy must be drawn out, endlessly, so they can line their pockets as they sell to both sides, and both sides filled with hate fueled by corporate owned media outlets pumping out half-truth garbage, gladly line up to murder their fellow human beings because the capitalists told them it was the only way to settle things. And they believed it.

The problems with sex and gender are very real, but they are rather secondary to the impendid crises we hurdle headlong into with regards to the environment and the increasing waves of layoffs due to automation while even people with Bacheolor degrees can't find comfortable standards of living in the US, because tech companies would rather outsource to either off-shore labor or imported, underpaid immigrants.

It was the capitalists who off-shored the jobs, and begged for cheaper, more exploitable H1B workers to replace native born citizens. And it was the capitalists who then sold the story to the American public that it was the imigrants' fault all along, rather than the decision makers that chose to betray the American people at every turn.

Wake up.

Male disposability is a capitalist institution.

Title	This is what happened to some men who "fought for their countries" in the past
Author	DawnBreak777
Upvotes	157
Comments	27
Date	December 28, 2024 3:35 PM UTC (1 year ago)
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