Cartoon Corporals

By now you have probably seen the U.S. Army’s new recruiting commercial. For those who haven’t, it is a cartoon in which a child voiced woman tells her story of being raised by a pair of lesbians. Eventually, it cuts to a real girl in an army uniform, which shows us this is the true story of a real soldier. While disturbing on a number of levels, this video is part of a much larger story.

During this cute little cartoon with moving, emotionally evocative music, we hear how she was exposed to gay sex parades as a child and has been brainwashed into thinking a child holding up a sign at a degeneracy march is “fighting for freedom.” Her childishly feminine voice then goes on to tell us about how she went to UC Davis, referring to “powerful women,” and implying she herself is one, about 263 times before saying she talked to an Army recruiter.

At no point in this punishingly long, childish diversity checklist of nonsense did she even incidentally mention anything remotely connected to patriotism. At no point did she mention following in the footsteps of other family members who served. At no point did she refer to joining the army as “service” or “serving.” At no point did she even mention the name of the country who’s military she joined.

What she did blather on about for what felt like an hour was how all these other “powerful women” were doing things and she wanted to be powerful and amazing too. Like most women who are that high on the narcotic of feminism and modernity, all of her reasons for joining the army were about self. How she saw herself, how she felt about herself, how her friends were posting more interesting selfies on Instagram than she was. That may sound trite, but that’s what it all boils down to. She described friends studying abroad and climbing mountains and she stamped her little foot and wanted to do neat stuff also.

She had her degree, but joined the enlisted ranks instead of becoming an officer. No powerful woman with a college degree would willingly sign up for the most amount of toil, the least pay, and the smallest opportunity to “break stereotypes” and lecture capable men about how much better she is than them. This dippy California sorority girl was bamboozled by a recruiter who couldn’t care less about her future or desires. He got her to sign the dotted line and made his quota for the month.

Looking at this ad on face value tells us the story of a sweet, misguided little girl who was tricked by a desperate recruiter into joining the world’s most aggressively feminist, pro-diversity government organization. She was then fed the oxymoron that she can somehow break barriers and stereotypes in an organization that is aggressively feminist so all actual barriers are removed from her path, and do so by conforming to the feminist “Power Girl” stereotype.

This ad lies in stark contrast to the recruiting ads of the U.S. military’s past. “We Didn’t Promise You A Rose Garden” was the slogan on a Marine Corps recruiting poster that featured a hard nosed Drill Instructor staring a hole into a faceless recruit. This was typical of an era that challenged young men to do something difficult. “The Few. The Proud” was a slogan that implied joining an elite organization and becoming part of something more important than the individual. These are just two examples of what has been replaced by cartoons and non-whites yelling commands on a fictional battlefield.

To look at a more recent juxtaposition, a glance at the recent Russian recruiting ad looks like a commercial for an 80’s action movie. It is a slow motion montage of masculine looking warriors doing masculine warrior things. A bolt action rifle’s action being worked breaks up the little segments, implying tradition and hearkening back to the warriors of Russia’s past. While America’s army is trying to get more bubble brained California sorority girls to join up, Russia’s army is looking for men with broad shoulders who want to fight. To be clear, this commentary is specifically about Russia’s ad and what it implies about who they want filling the ranks of their military.

The DoD has been slowly purging wrongthinkers since Obama started firing generals for political reasons. The ball rolled downhill and accelerated unabated in the form of more political firings and the changing of DoD policies and specific military branch policies to crack down on any wrongthink, to include Confederate imagery or the crazy idea that people who don’t know what gender they are shouldn’t be allowed in the military and have access to grenades. The current administration’s pick for Secretary of Defense is a man with a rather thin resume, who’s primary focus is rooting out “racism and extremism” from the ranks. This is the same administration that wanted to know which military members voted against it during the last presidential election, and the same one that is trying to illegally bully service members into getting a questionably safe COVID vaccination and those who do not are illegally threatened and equally illegally punished.

When looked at by themselves, these commercials could be brushed off as the military trying to appeal to people who don’t join the military in large numbers. When correctly examined, in context with the political climate that has become apparent over the last decade, the larger story begins to emerge.

The U.S. military is no longer trying to broaden its recruiting pool and attract members of historically underrepresented diversity categories. It is trying to narrow its recruiting pool by actively excluding White men. The DoD’s stance has transitioned from welcoming White men to neglecting them in favor of “diversity” to considering them a necessary but slightly embarrassing evil to active hostility.

The military has done everything short of hanging up a sign on the door of every recruitment office that says “White Men Need Not Apply.” For White men currently in the service, this is, of course, a bad thing and we should pray that they are able to navigate these dangerous waters safely until they leave. For White men considering joining the military, this should be a message shouted through a bull horn that they are not welcome and will be at best neglected and at worst actively abused until they leave, or a reason can be found to kick them out with as much shame and ignominy as possible.

The larger story is that the military is no longer a bastion of sanity, reality-based decision making, and tradition. It has been completely compromised from the Secretary of Defense through the generals that weren’t purged for wrongthink, and all the way down to fresh faced recruits who think they’re going to “break stereotypes” despite being a carbon copy of multiple years of recruiting ads, posters, movies, television shows, video games, etc.

The military is no longer a meritocracy where White men can thrive, and has been trending that way for at least 15 years. Young White men should not consider the military an option under any but the most dire of circumstances and White men who have already joined should leave as soon as practicable.

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