i think we need to talk more about removing military recruiters from public high schools especially public high schools with significantly less funding in poorer areas. it’s exploitation of literal children in a place where they are meant to learn.
they harass you, get your phone number, your instagram, your snapchat(they even got to me through my school email), anything to try and convince you to join the military. they even made a game out of it, bringing in the pull-up bar so underclassmen could show their strength to their friends.
almost everyday i see the military recruiters at my school, handing out pamphlets and pens, trying to get 16 and 17 year olds to sign up after high school to fight for a country that continues to exploit them through the socio-economic class divide the very leaders of the country created and stoked, to fight in wars that destroy the lives of innocent people at the mercy of the “most powerful nation on earth” only to come home and be exploited again by the same leaders seeking to rise to or stay in power while ignoring the people they sent to commit their war crimes