Eyes Left podcast: A Guide to Getting Out of the US Military (Now) w/ the GI Rights Hotline

It’s much easier than the Pentagon wants you to think. Whether you’re in the military or know someone who is, this is the definitive guide to walking away. And as Biden’s support for genocide spins out into new US wars across the Middle East, from the Red Sea to Iraq, now would be a good time to walk away.

Featuring special guest Maria Santelli, longtime counselor with the GI Rights Hotline, which provides secure, free and expert support to any service member who wants to leave the military.

CALL the hotline anytime at 1-877-447-4487 for advice, or visit them online at https://girightshotline.org/

Maria is Executive Director of the Center on Conscience and War: https://centeronconscience.org/ GI Rights Hotline

I’m not stabbing this man, I’m stabbing this man’s liver.

Topologist: It’s the same picture.

oic. Carry on, comrade.

If only to liquidate the super straights.

By that logic my ass. There is no a genocidal gay supremacy ethnostate.

When statistics agree with my preconceived notions, I consider them trustworthy, and if not, I assume that reality lines up with what I expect.

I… thought you were being sarcastic. This is an obvious and severe flaw to have in one’s rational thinking.

prejudice (noun)
1. The act or state of holding unreasonable preconceived judgments or convictions.
2. An adverse judgment or opinion formed unfairly or without knowledge of the facts.

Administrative detentions can be longer. On paper they can hold you about a month, but it can be longer than that with a judge’s signoff if they have proof of a crime.

And in the US, jail can be up to just short of a year.

This is typically where the police try to get you to confess to something and drag it out as long and uncomfortably as possible until you do, after which you either get to go free (though you end up on a list for a long time) or you may go to a “black jail”/黑監獄 which is a sort of under-the-table prison.

The terms of release can also sometimes require completion of a rehabilitation program, which is often the voluntary alternative to prison, or getting transferred to a short stay detention center for a few months to perform community service.

So pretty similar to the US.

World Incarceration Rates If Every U.S. State Were A Country

The rest are in undeclared labor camps

Goes for both

US labor camps are not undeclared (though extraterritorial black sites are). They’re called prisons, and the labor is slave labor, thanks to the 13th amendment.

Today is a good day to be old. I don’t have to worry about conscription, only nuclear annihilation.

it’s not like Iran isn’t known for authoritarianism and human rights abuses.

Iran certainly has its problems, but they don’t hold a candle to Israel’s (or the US’s) human rights abuses.

Meanwhile Iran has as much right to develop nukes as any country: precisely zero.

Okay? Iran isn’t even developing any, while Israel has had hundreds for decades, which they developed in secret as a rogue state.

I don’t usually say “US citizens” because I don’t usually mean only residents with citizenship.

All but Radio Free America.

Same with US state, NGO, and corporate media.

I’ll also accept Burgerstani & Statesian.

Also, Dude, American is not the preferred nomenclature. USian, please.

No joke. Same goes for Radio Free Europe and Voice of America, among others. They’re US state propaganda outlets.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Agency_for_Global_Media

I try to point people toward developing real media literacy.