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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12855869/army-tiktok-mutiny-gen-z-recruits.html

The US Army is facing a TikTok mutiny as Gen Z recruits are
taking to social media to whine about low pay, 'sh***y' food
and fitness tests.

The brazen posts - by uniformed troops on US bases - represent
an audacious challenge to top brass amid a recruitment crisis.
The Army fell short of its target by 25 percent last year.

One of the posts by military influencer Anthony Laster slams
Army life for having 'No Privacy, The Pay Sucks, Sh***y Food,
Disrespectful Leadership, NO SLEEP!' and has been viewed more
than 600,000 times.

Laster, from Chicago, has more than a million followers on
TikTok and made the public comments in uniform while on mission
in the desert. In another post he claimed he spent his whole
day watching TikToks while supposedly fighting the Taliban.

It gives a woeful impression of America's fighting forces to
potential recruits, which is likely to cause further animosity
toward TikTok from critics. Politicians from both sides have
concerns about the platform's links with China and accuse it
of pushing subversive anti-US propaganda.

. . .

I never heard of any army being "fun". They're about
"The Mission" and that involves having tough soldiers
who will obey orders even with everything exploding
around them.

At least in the USA, public attitudes have changed to
the point where the military really cannot be a proper
military anymore. Nobody will stand for being pushed
around, criticized, stressed, ordered about, tight
rules, regimentation - all with a dollop of shitty pay
and food on top. If military life isn't fun and games
then nobody wants it, fewer and fewer will join.

This represents a PROBLEM, eventual disaster for
any country of relevance in the world.

SO ... I expect a return of the DRAFT or even a span
of compulsory military service like we see in some
European countries. Expect penalties for soldiers
mouthing-off about the military too ... and it can
represent a security risk as well.

I don't think the military CAN change very much.
No doubt every possible paradigm has been tried
more than once over thousands of years and the
hard-ass authoritarian plan seems to be the one
that WORKS. Tiny countries with token military
can do it any way they want, but the ones that
actually do the real fighting ...

Don't have any more wars ? Yea, SURE Moonbeam.
There will always be the bully-boyz and if you
don't have people to physically oppose them then
the bully-boyz always win. I suspect we're still
40-50 years away from anything like a good all-
purpose Terminator mil-bot.

Yes, there will always be SOME who are down with
the program. Question is, will it be ENOUGH when
the shit hits the fan ?

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