PS: Greetings, y'all...

A little more info about 𝕏...

https://medium.com/@jimmysoni/the-colorful-history-of-x-com-aka-the-website-formerly-known-as-twitter-53b3dfec0069

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.com_(bank)
https://archive.li/hl7te

Cheers! ☮️

PS: I appreciate your remarks on the comments here on PS, Mr. Hail. There are only a few handfuls of us, but it's polite, civil, and informative, to me, anyway. Yeah, iSteve's got a really good bunch there.

Regarding the change from Armistice Day to Veterans Day, your point about it being just after yet one more foreign war (Korea) is a good one. Did they figure there'd be so many more? Maybe so. Can't have a holiday in remembrance of all of them...

PS: Late replies here, but thanks for the sad poem and the funny "Blackadder" scene too, Mr. G. I can't tell which people are reading - we're not that kind of site - but I'm glad to read that you are.

I am also glad to see another addition to the hopefully-coming PS on-line book club. Thanks, Adam. I read "All Quite on the Western Front", but that was so many years ago. It will/would be like reading it the first time, I imagine.

PS: Fred the Gator - Pat Tillman's story was truly tragic, with no mis-use of that word. At the time he enlisted, there were many of (I got to say) US who might rightly think, they are heading to Afghanistan to kill the people that attacked our country in NYC and killed 3,000 people. Now, Iraq, I don't wouldn't think too many gung-ho enlistees would think killing Iraqis would be direct revenge, even at that time.

Now, an attack on Saudi Arabia - that'd be more direct, but we couldn't do that. Either way, as I see it, imagine some big group of Americans not sanctioned by the government, let's say the D Party arranging a huge bombing in Dusseldorf, Germany at Octoberfest, because, too many White Aryan type people. (I said "imagine", and I pulled Dusseldorf out my rear end.) Would German be justified in launching an attack against the US?

That rambling over with, then I guess it may have been obvious to Pat Tillman the war there wasn't about his killing Osama Bin Laden's men and that's all, game over. Then, his being shot by friendly fire, while not in a battle to defend his duly seceded Confederacy homeland like Stonewall Jackson, but 1/2 a world a way killing Moslems for some Deep State purpose, is pretty tragic.

Anyway, due to your connection at the San Jose school, you must know more details that I (we) don't.

PS

The Alarmist wrote:

"A millennial thanked me for my service last year, and he was confused by the look on my face which was bemusement..."

How did he know you were a veteran?

PS

Adam Smith (paraphrasing Ganderson) says:

"sometimes I find myself reading but not commenting as I have nothing to add"

Comment-sections are a funny thing in that most of them are terrible. A bad-actor type can hijack things with stupid or ad-hominem comments, text equivalents of SHOUTING AT PEOPLE and name-calling. It's unpleasant, and maybe a fair portion of it is now outsourced to bots.

Almost all the comment-sections hosted at Unz are almost unreadable, for example --- except one (the one where that lovable prolific-commenter known as A. E. Newman is seen with regularity).

PS

Fred The Gator wrote: "I prefer Armistice Day to "veterans' day..."

I believe Canada still uses Armistice Day.

Foreign-wars became too important in the USA to keep a holiday referring to one specific end-of-war. It's interesting to note when that happened specifically, as the original-entry here specifies: 1954, after the three-year intervention in the Korean War, specifically, ramp-up of NATO, height of the Cold War, and era of interventions toppling tin-pot leaders.

In this sense, the "Veterans" referred to were, implicitly, often of the CIA or other secret forces, not the lovable "doughboy" types marched off to war with brass-bands, which everyone could see and "understand" in a sense, even if disagreeing with war-aims. In later years it became hard to understand what the U.S. "military" even does, really; what is its purpose? It's no easy question.

PS

-- X.com history for PS-comment-reader diehards (and draft for possible later expansion) --

RE: "x.com" --

I have a feeling that someone may have once sought or wished to use that quick-and-easy, one-letter URL for pornography, some time between the opening of the URL system in the 1990s thirty years ago. On the other hand, it's so easy a URL that some ultra-early-adopted probably grabbed it back in the first week of it being available, and only a small portion of Internet people were pornographers.

It's unfortunately inevitable that a major part of the social history of the Internet has been pornography, and the letter "X" often associated with it (though I suppose usually three X'es in a row). I'd say that does count as a form of Stupidity, and one of the things we don't really know how to deal with.

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Here is an Archive.org supposed page-capture from December 1996 for all you die-hards reading this who may be interested (see direct-links at end of this comment):

___________________

Welcome to x.com!


This site is under construction, but check back here later for new additions.


hot list
Wollongong creates the coolest Browser on the planet! Emissary! (check out a screen shot here...)


people
people who make x.com possible:
Dave Weinstein
Marcel DePaolis
Suzanne DePaolis

other things
Stuff that Rob Walker might want...


Copyright © x.com, inc., 1995, all rights reserved
.

__________________
__________________
.


(and here is an archived-copy of whatX.com was, as of February 1998):

___________________

X.com

not nearly the worst place on the web!!!

Check out these cool attractions:

{logo goes here}
Dave's World

{logo goes here}
Rob's House of Weather

__________________

(Dave's World was by a "David Weinstein." The whole thing was a typical-1990s-Internet'er, everything a light triviality, not like the way twenty-five years of a Drang Nach Internetization produced the dreary and horrifying world of the ca. 2020 period, including the Panic of 2020, the latest Panic-gruel delivered viva instant-updates to Internet-connected devices people are controlled by.)

(This was "Dave's World" from the same Feb. 1998 archived version:)

_________________

If you're interested in high tech gadgets, or just the best toys that a well funded executive can buy, then you must check out The Dave Report!

Check out our sound gallery with lots of clips from popular TV shows like, "Pinky and the Brain", "Ren and Stimpy", "The Simpsons" and more!
_________________

(By 2000, the holders of X.com has cashed-out their Ren-and-Stimpy site and sold off to someone running a "banking and investing" website. When thinking of banking and investing, of course going to a website named X.com is the first thought..!)

(By 2002, X.com was connected too Paypal (slogan at top of site as of April 2002: "Send Money! Pay anyone with an email address!")

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_________________

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links to X.com 1990s archived versions:

https://web.archive.org/web/19961219022100/http://x.com/

https://web.archive.org/web/19980210042431/http://www.x.com/

https://web.archive.org/web/19980210042449/http://www.x.com/daves_world/index.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20000301045908/http://x.com/

https://web.archive.org/web/20020402011349/http://www.x.com/

PS Many of the youth at a church I used to go to went to Leland High School in San Jose. Pat Tillman went to Leland High---in fact one of my friends boasts of the fact that Pat Tillman beat him up. The football stadium at Leland High is named Pat Tillman stadium.

Tillman gave up an NFL career in which he had a contract offer of millions a year to become an Army Ranger. He was deployed to Afghanistan and was killed by FRIENDLY FIRE. The Army first tried to portray his death as due to enemy fire but the truth came out.

To me, giving up a great career like that so you can die of friendly fire seems somehow to embody the essence of Peak Stupidity. Not that I would say Pat Tillman was stupid, but whoever put him in that position is stupid. And that's the problem. We are led by morons, especially in wartime.

That's why I prefer Armistice Day to "veterans' day". Even calling it that in light of the obscenity of war seems wrong somehow.

PS Changing the holiday from armistice day to veterans' day is like changing "vegan day" to "meat-grinder day".

"Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori."

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46560/dulce-et-decorum-est

PS: Mr. Hail, re: x.com, I wasn't sure what you meant by that commentary. Do you mean that the porn purveyors would have snapped up that URL back in that heyday of registering domain names? Or, do you mean that anyone was grabbing any URL that sounded as if it someone would eventually want it for WHATEVER purposes?

I remember those times? If you paid your $20 (whatever it was then) for dominos.com, etc., etc. in say, 1995, you could be rewarded handsomely a couple of years later. There was a lot of commentary on that speculation in domain names. I can't remember if the internet players, maybe the DNS people (Domain Name Service converts a typed in address like dominos.com into an up to 12 digit IP number), made any efforts to prevent gouging by not renewing the Domain if there wasn't a site up within so much time.

Not that I have a problem with price gouging:

https://www.peakstupidity.com/index.php?post=1116

"Price Gouging - Peak Stupidity is FOR IT."

This was a bit different, a one-time thing like that land rush in Oklahoma. I see patents being abused this way - some Big Biz outfit gets one just to prevent anyone from inventing something that might be up their alley some day. I don't think they should be renewed if no work is done after some time interval.

Well, that was a digression indeed, Mr. Hail! What did you mean about x.com then?

PS: Thanks, all, for the interesting and friendly comments.

I went to your channel, Adam, and first watched a few minutes of the video - already watched the whole thing, as I mentioned - to get screenshots. I proceeded to reload the page, and it still showed "No Views".

OK, well, I started over and let the whole thing run through the 26 minutes. Still "No Views" upon reloading that youtube page. Well, maybe it's a refresh thing. I went to this, another computer, started it up, and that page says "No Views". This is interesting.

Ahaaa, well, I'll let what I wrote stand, but I just saw that right next to "No Views" was "20 hours ago". Duh! I wasn't looking carefully. I assume that means that some script updates all the pages, and yours was only set to 0 upon first uploading (roughly 20 hours ago, but then I don't know if you wrote in here right when you did that).

I'm surprised the youtube software can't update # of views on the spot. Or, is the "20 hours ago" only an indication of when the video was posted and that's all it means?

More experimenting is necessary.

Now, I'll have to try a bunch of 2 minute views later (after views have been tabulated by whatever

PS

In your alt-history of the 1910s, Mr Ganderson, recall the year-of-death for Teddy Roosevelt: Jan 1919. And TR was in poor health through much of the calendar-year 1918. And less-than-ideal health for some of the rest of the period related to the crazy war of the 1910s.

It's quite possible TR would have gotten the U.S. into the war earlier. I once visited his childhood home (?) in Manhattan. The curator or whoever was on hand told me (after some question or comment I made prompted the remarks) that TR was not necessarily for entry into Europe's 1910s war, but he was definitely for "preparedness," which would mean a kind of full mobilization of U.S. forces ramping up in 1915 and 1916. The anti-war majority in the USA largely blocked "preparedness" as a back-door for the war-pushers. War came anyway.

Somebody wrote a book published in 2014 about the 1910s war, the sole purpose of which was to argue the case that U.S. entry into that war was the BIGGEST foreign-policy error in U.S. history. Everyone would be better off with U.S. neutrality and a negotiated peace, the argument went. France and Britain could not defeat Germany along, and a negotiated peace would replace the dreary end-game of 1918. It would mean preserving the Prussian-German monarchical regime and other elements of Old-Order Europe from giving way to a terrible power-vacuum. The Germans and their allies would have inherited responsibility for recreating a Russian state, presumably handing back power to a Tsarist-like regime after dealing with the "Reds."

The book was pretty interesting. Cannot no recall the name or author, so maybe even Adam Smith cannot come up with the right one.

PS

The Alarmist wrote:

"x.com"

Does this mean "X dot com" has now really replaced "Twitter dot com"?

So, it's finally come to this.

I wonder what the history of the URL "x dot com" is, back to the early 1990s days of the good-old World-Wide-Web. I have a feeling I can guess what use that letter may have been put to by a certain type of would-be Internet money-grabber without compunctions about violating certain social taboos. Some years later in the 2020s, that same website URL now influences a large chunk of our social and political worlds...

PS

Thanks, Mr. Smith, for finding the classic All Quiet On the Western Front movie (1930 version).

I saw this some time ago on DVD. I can't remember where I found it. It was a great hidden delight, as far as movies go, because it has rich historical meaning in ways that lots of the great older movies did (just as the great "sword and sand" films of the 1950s and 1960s also told something of their own times).

I'd say 1930 was a time before the veto-power-like heavy influence over American "cinema" by one group which is nominally a religion, which is part of the interest in

Anyway, the Peak Stupidity masses can decide for themselves, if any heed to call to see this. In my view, it is worth the two hours.

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And, given Adam Smith's popular Youtube channel (with thousands of viewers from Steve Sailer fans), it may be time for the Executive Board hereabouts to consider opening a "Peak Stupidity Video Club," in addition to the highly-esteemed and successful Peak Stupidity Book Club.

PS

Burning leaves, one of the great smells of my childhood; sadly illegal in most places, including here.

Being “ from away”, I never glommed onto New England “cuisine”; give me an old fashioned upper Midwest hot dish (what the rest of you call a casserole) as long as it doesn’t have tuna in it- wild rice and turkey is my fave.

One of the counterfactuals I think about is what if Roosevelt had won in 1912? We almost certainly would have gotten officially involved in WW I way earlier, but I suspect TR might have been able and willing to buff some of the vindictiveness out of the Versailles treaty. Wonder if the war would have lasted as long?

PS: Greetings, Mr. Ganderson!

Always a pleasure to hear from you. I agree. Not only about the top drawer commenters here, but also about Lincoln's and Wilson's catastrophic wars. They are both evil villains in my opinion.

And, yes, sometimes I find myself reading but not commenting as I have nothing to add. I guess I could chime in with a simple “yes” or “I agree” or something, but that seems silly. Sometimes I'm just tired after getting up early (I'm not a morning person) and working a long day.

Mrs. Smith made what she calls “New England Boil” yesterday. I always think of you when she makes it. (I imagine that in your neck of the woods it's just called “Boil”... Though I'm sure that's not the case.)

Many thanks for the Alan Seeger poem. Though I, fortunately, have never experienced the horrors of war, I imagine it would be dark and hellish and quite uncomfortable in many ways. This poem captures the ugliness of twentieth century trench warfare and looming death juxtaposed against the blossoming of spring and a longing for life and love. War is such an evil waste.

So, it's leaf season here. (We have many large trees.) I spent several hours blowing and burning leaves on Friday. By Saturday morning you almost couldn't tell after all the leaves that fell in the night. So, I'm off to blow and burn more leaves.

I hope you have a great evening, Mr. Ganderson!

Cheers! ☮️

PS: Good afternoon, Mr. Hail!

I found two copies of “Merchants of Death”...

Merchants of Death: A Study of the International Armament Industry (5mb .epub)
https://tinyurl.com/mudswdpe

Merchants of Death: A Study of the International Armament Industry (10mb .pdf)
https://tinyurl.com/yck38u47

I also found a copy of the 1930 version of 𝐴𝑙𝑙 𝑄𝑢𝑖𝑒𝑡 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛 𝐹𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑡. I was/(am) going to upload it for our viewing enjoyment, but as it is still downloading (and taking its sweet time) I'll have to do that later.

In the meantime you (we) can watch it here...

https://www.veoh.com/watch/v1486715efNPr68g

I agree with you about war. It is incredibly wasteful, destructive, unnecessary and down right evil. Imagine how wonderful the world would be without this specter hanging over humanity.

Oh, and I think Sailer might have some difficulty 𝑛𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑔 some things about 1940's (and beyond) war mythology not only because it is quite difficult for many normies to do, but also because his dad worked in the weapons industry, for Lockheed's Skunk Works. I would imagine (though I could be wrong) that the Sailer family took pride in the work his dad was doing. And, admittedly, it was a different, perhaps more exciting, time for the American aerospace industry and America as a whole. Many beliefs formed during childhood stay with us well into adulthood and often forever. (Anyway...)

Thank you for your comments. I hope you have a great rest of the weekend!

Cheers! ☮️

PS: Good afternoon, Achmed,

So, I uploaded that Douglass Mackey interview...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDQJhDOG61c

(Still has zero views.)

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Yeah, Draft Morning is one of my favorite Vietnam era anti-war songs. (The Byrds are pretty great.)

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“Was it Alarmist who put this retro-US-Army ad up on The Unz Review?”

No, but I found it when looking through his comments on unz.
Here is the comment in question...

https://www.unz.com/aanglin/elon-caused-me-embarrassment-with-fake-clips-here-are-some-real-hamas-kills/#comment-6251744

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“Hey, that's my merchandise N_____!”
Hey, that's my merchandise Nice 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤❗ Man!

I have no idea why Sailer would have a problem with your comment. Sometimes he strikes mine down too. Hasn't happened in a while. (So it's probably about time.)

Anyway...

Happy Sunday! ☮️

PS: Good afternoon, everyone,

Looks like we have a busy Sunday here at PeakStupidity. Lots of good stuff. I'm going to take this (mostly) in order.

But first, I'd like to thank Mr. Alarmist for colorizing my peace sign emoji! ☮️

This will come in handy in the future!

Please allow me to return the favor... 🕉️

Many thanks!

🕉️ ☮️

PS

New Russian Army recruitment ad:

https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/1721872568624324774?s=20

PS

anecdote: Can't remember the point of the war

There are said to have been press interviews with men in the vast armies in Europe in 1916 (I think it was), who, when asked what they remembered of why the war had begun or why it was being fought, or what the goals were, the majority said they didn't know, didn't quite remember, or didn't understand.

PS

-- On tragedy of the 1910s-war, poetry, and post-war views --

The 1914-1918 war war bad for us all not only because it was so pointless and served no purpose(wasteful); it also actively made everything worse for everyone involved (a catastrophe far "more than the sum of its parts").

The great casualty of that war was nothing else but Western Civilization itself. The gloomy poetry and all, the talk of a Lost Generation and the anti-war books, novels, movies of the coming years (try and se the original All Quiet on the Western Front movie from 1930 if you haven't) were symbolic of the civilizational catastrophe. It would be a mistake to take the poems of and things of gloom and all to be merely personal tragedies. Better interpretation: personalization of civilizational tragedy.

The surge of international interest in the "Kriegsschuldfrage" (Question of War-Origins or 'Guilt') in the 1920s and into the 1930s, in mid- and high-brow culture, bears this out. I ha hoped for a Corona-Schuldfrage to be happening right now, but mostly it's "all quiet" on that front.

PS

Baldrick checks in with his wartime doggerel:

https://youtu.be/uHSvKNQNzc0

PS

Alan Seeger was that ol' Commie Pete Seeger's uncle. He served in the Foreign Legion, and kept his rendezvous on July 4, 1916.

PS

Happy Armistice Day everyone! I haven't been posting much; don't have all that much to say, the commenters here are really all top drawer. I mostly have little to add; I still read, though.

Over the last 15 years or so I've made two major adjustments in my thinking about US History- one is that the Civil War was a disaster for the US; and secondly that Wilson getting us involved in the Great War* (and much earlier than April, 1917, by the way). probably had even more wide ranging catastrophic effects. Wilson was a great villain. Maybe in an alternative Sliders universe he won his fight with the Princeton faculty and stayed in New Jersey.

Here's my favorite WW I poem-very moving- I used to use this in class- I'd read it aloud to the chill'uns- the room would get "you could hear a pin drop" silent:

I Have a Rendezvous with Death

Alan Seeger 1888 –1916

I have a rendezvous with Death
At some disputed barricade,
When Spring comes back with rustling shade
And apple-blossoms fill the air—
I have a rendezvous with Death
When Spring brings back blue days and fair.

It may be he shall take my hand
And lead me into his dark land
And close my eyes and quench my breath—
It may be I shall pass him still.
I have a rendezvous with Death
On some scarred slope of battered hill,
When Spring comes round again this year
And the first meadow-flowers appear.

God knows ’twere better to be deep
Pillowed in silk and scented down,
Where love throbs out in blissful sleep,
Pulse nigh to pulse, and breath to breath,
Where hushed awakenings are dear...
But I’ve a rendezvous with Death
At midnight in some flaming town,
When Spring trips north again this year,
And I to my pledged word am true,
I shall not fail that rendezvous.

* Wilson's Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan opposed Wilson's drift toward war, although he supported the war effort when we declared war on the Central Powers.

Bryan is much derided for his role in the Scopes trial, unfairly IMHO. He was wrong about some things, but, unlike his successors in today's uniparty, he didn't hate the average Joe or Jane.

PS: BTW, completely O/T, but I had a comment "whimmed" by Steve Sailer for the first time* in years, I'd have to guess. That'd be a reply to Mr. Smith here's video of the black grifter explaining that black people won't stop stealing jewelry and stuff unless they get reparations. Well, reparations themselves ARE stealing...

My comment was about that guy showing his arm with a watch on it to the crowd as he said this. I wrote that it'd be hilarious if someone in the crowd yelled out "Hey, that's my merchandise N_____!" Just like that - I didn't fill in the blanks. Hmmmm...


* I've gotten long delays on the device that doesn't get me instant-publish, but that's just his sleep cycle and very occasionally forgetfullness.

PS: Re your 2nd comment, Mr. Hail, though not any kind of alt-history buff, I can see plainly that 2 very major destructive eras of the 20th century were due to WWI. That'd be:

A) the fact that it lasted long enough for the Russian people to want new government, unfortunately picking, OK, having picked for them, pretty much the very worst kind.

B) Wilson's agreement at Versailles that screwed over the German economy badly and long-term such that the Germans were either going Communist or the man with the funny mustache were to "handle it".

PS

"How many wars since and including that Great War (officially) ending 11/11/1918 have been fought to defend the United States?"

I agree, but would make a stronger criticism than that:

The problem with these wars isn't just that they fail to qualify as national defense and are therefore wasteful, but that they actively create, cause, exacerbate problems that linger for decades.

Many if not most of the problems of the mid-20th to early-21st century are directly traceable to the stupidity of the 1914 war and then the 1940s war and how the 1940s all played out and ended, itself partly a result of the 1910s war in many regions.

Find any geopolitical problem we recognize from our time and I can usually show you how it traces to one of those two wars and the instability and sundry-stupidities that jumped out of Pandora's War-box.

PS

The tragedy of pointless wars.

Senator Nye's message via Adam Smith rings true in all times, but it especially captures the mood of the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s.

(By the "1910s" I really mean the true mood after the stupid war-hysteria subsided, or looking past it.)

The bigger deadweight around our civilization's leg is the 1940s cheerleading for war, which our world in the 2020s still directly inherits, in great measure. As much as I like Steve Sailer, I think he fails to apply enough Noticing to the 1940s mythology. In his defense, it's a hard thing to do, even harder in some ways than his usual material.

Our civilization achieved its greatest heights when we were at peace and not bogged down with pointless wars or with legacies such as the one inherited from the 1940s (the powerful Good War myth).

See also: "The Merchants of Death: A Study of the International Armament Industry," a 1930s book:

https://www.unz.com/mhudson/is-the-us-a-failed-state/#comment-6062793

PS: Alarmist, the late '70s didn't have the greatest of economies, but I'm sure there were better job prospects for you then there would be now. (Early '80's were most of the short recession.) Then, though we are in a local labor supply shortage - that they are "fixing" with large-scale immigration), it's been tough for a White man, and others to a lesser degree, to find decent work in general.

What I'm getting at is that, even with all that, young White men, are having none of this signing up to defend or offend some other peoples on behalf of the Potomac Regime.

What you wrote about Veterans Day makes sense. Who could be pro-war after being reminded of the pure devastation of WWI?

PS: Was it Alarmist who put this retro-US-Army ad up on The Unz Review? Either way, I noted it there, but these comments are indeed very encouraging. 1st one I see right now:

@LordAmalthea
4 days ago
As a white man I must bow out and make room for the brave LGBTQMap+ BiPoC future soldiers who will no doubt do this country proud. 🏳️‍🌈🇮🇱🇺🇦

There are so many of different styles, sarcastic, funny, etc., that I might collect the best with this video for a post next week.

PS: Thanks for the music, Adam. I know you or someone else here introduced me to Dylan's "Masters of War" before. That Byrds song was excellent:

"Sun warm on my face.
I hear you
down below
Movin' slow,
and it's morning

Take my time this morning.
No hurry.
To learn to kill,
and take the will
from unknown faces

Today was the day
for action
Leave my bed to kill instead?
Why should it happen?"

PS

The me who volunteered at the end of the ‘70s, which at the time was one of the American military’s darker hours, would not volunteer today. If odered to be drafted, I would not go. I suspect there are plenty of vets of a like mind.

BTW, they changed it to Veterans’ Day because the original spirit of Armistice Day was anti war, which was not consonant with the permanent war footing the MICIMATT put the USA on in 1947.

A millennial thanked me for my service last year, and he was confused by the look on my face which was bemusent more than anything else. I was probably thinking I didn’t put my life on the line for what the US has become.

🕉 ☮️

PS: Me again,

https://i.ibb.co/tp7VfHh/Fight4-Israel.jpg

Check out the comments under this Army recruitment video...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luc9saxt_YQ

(Many thanks to The Alarmist for inadvertently bringing this video to my attention.)

Happy Sunday! ☮

PS: Good evening, Achmed,

“War is not a matter of national honor and national defense, but a matter of profit for the few.” — Senator Nye, 1934.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hOHL4UM3S0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6pb2pLeR_s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqeLZ-oDc8g

Cheers! ☮