A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
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This is why the US ditched the draft after the Vietnam War.
The only time we ever had a meaningful anti-war movement was when people were forced to send their own kids to die. Having a "volunteer" force eliminates that. The excuse is always that people signed up for it, and people just ignore that it's the poor and minorities who are still effectively pressed into military duty due to manufactured lack of opportunity.
keeping college education and health care expensive is used as motivation for young people to enlist despite lack of conscription, as they see their only opportunity to have those fees waived
The draft wasn’t ditched. The selective service has been active for decades, it isn’t supposed to be left active unless somebody is going to use the draft.
The excuse is always that people signed up for it
not on the other side though
I'm a veteran with combat experience and people look at me like i'm a crazy person when I advocate against wars. It's really hard to get people to realize that someone who's been to war (and isn't a psychopath) doesn't want anyone to have to go to war. It breaks everything and everyone.
Thank you for doing something I couldn't.
people look at me like i'm a crazy person when I advocate against wars
You might consider finding new friends.
username... checks out?
Who would know better than you? I hope they start listening.
When the Germans invaded my country in 1940, someone in the street I currently live in was standing behind the window, looking at the approaching soldiers. (I live real close to the border). The Germans, upon seeing him, shot him and he died right there. There's no memorial, no history book where this guy is mentioned. I only know about this through oral history, my grandfather told my dad and he told me. History is always about the leaders and the armies, never about the civilians.
US just haven't suffered any big wars on their soil for too long and lost the touch of true misery replacing it with trans issues and shit.
not since the civil war, and that was half-assed because the confederates were allowed to exists even then.
Americans in particular are clueless, war is a game to them and it’s always fought on somebody else’s soil. They need it to come to them for once, maybe if it’s their homes on fire they will finally get it
War Hawks are either cultist or profiting. Sometimes both but always pos.
People always think stuff is just fairy tales and sing along songs until they're hit with it.
There are exceptions though. But for most it's true.
People always think stuff is just fairy tales and sing along songs until they're hit with it.
The current anti-vax movement would not have flourished in a generation that lived through widespread polio and measles.
Yup, I’ve said this for years. To antivaxxers, those old diseases are boogeymen. They legitimately don’t believe the diseases are bad, because “well people survived for thousands of years before” (survivorship bias) and the fact that they’ve never been personally affected by it.
They never lost a childhood friend to measles. They never saw entire hospital wings full of kids in iron lungs because of polio. They never watched a friend or family member go deaf because of a childhood case of mumps. They never had a brother, uncle, etc have to come to terms with being unable to have kids, because a childhood case of mumps left them sterile.
But you know what is real to the antivaxxers? Autism. Everyone knows (or has seen) someone who was severely autistic. It doesn’t matter if the link between autism and vaccines is fake; the imagined threat of autism is a bigger threat in their minds than the very real threat of these diseases.
I dunno, there were pretty big anti mask movements back in the 1918 “Spanish” Influenza pandemic. I think it’s completely possible that ignorance can persist, even in the face of obvious oblivion.
It’s easy to think that people in the past were just different. That they could handle the brutalities of the past in a way we don’t.
The truth is that they were all humans just like us. They were just born in a different age.
R/combatfootage is where I sent the blow hards yelling for a US civil war last year.
And if we do war, the first to go are the young and poor.
"You people of the South don't know what you are doing! This country will be drenched in blood and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war, you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!"
An oddly prescient quote for our time, I would say.
To institute a draft, Congress would have to update the Military Selective Service Act with specific references to the current conflict, and then the president would have to sign it...
Or, apparently, Trump could just bypass all of that with an Executive Order, because why bother with following the law? Also, it seems, he could make the ages anything he wants, whereas now it's ages 18 to 25.
Growing up playing cod and bf games doesnt prepare you for any reality
War is worse then hell. In hell there are no innocents no undeserving but war is full of them
War. War never changes.
Americans aren't keen on reading history. It's partly how we ended up electing a man who paid smarter people to write his term papers.
Can't say we're particularly keen on empathy either.
Sure, but when certain countries are targeting civilians intentionally there is good reason to be horrified. You know, the ones that targeting schools and universities and religious buildings and it isn't just the normal horrific collateral damage.
Look into any major war in human history. This is just modern and highly covered. Its horrific and terrible but completely in line with historical war. Civilians are fodder for casualty numbers. Believing/preaching this is different from other war action in the past (atrocities/crimes/whatever) is ignorance or performative. It's always been horrific and always will be. Carthage, moguls, every dark ages seige, Dresden, Tokyo firebombings, Japanese nuclear bombs, My Lai, Kosovo, Darfur, North Korean bombings, Iran-Iraq war(1980s), Yugoslavia bombings (1999), battle of Grozny. I could go on for literal pages. This isn't an individual country thing its a human thing and until thats accepted and addressed it'll never stop.
When the allies invaded France in 1944, the first thing they did was move through the nearest towns and shoot anyone they saw. They had to establish a defendable position and had no time to identify whether someone was a French civilian, resistance member or a German.
That's quite the claim. Do you have a source for that?
From recorded interviews with one of the British soldiers, as featured in the BBC documentary D-Day: The Unheard Tapes.
Thanks!
Born in Normandy, where we were taught about wwii inside and outside of school a whole lot, having grand parents in the resistance. I have never ever heard that.
hold up. you're telling me all the movies from the past century that showed war were lying to me??!
/s
there's a reason why Vietnam was both the most televized and most protested war in American history.
I’ve always heard modern missile guidance systems are so accurate they could fly one up the enemy’s asshole and I wonder why not mine?
No no no missiles are dumb and sometimes they accidentally hit schools and hospitals and really all you can just do is shrug 🤷♂️ and say "oopsie doopsie", because war is hell.
We can send people to the moon but our multi-million dollar jets can't figure out where to drop a bomb without it striking a school. The tech just isn't there. The math is just too complex, because I failed high school physics and math is very hard, especially for computers with GPS.
/s if not blatantly obvious. Even with a dumb missle, maybe don't drop them in close vicinity to these types of buildings? Like, I don't care who the target is or how solid the intel is, it's just not worth the chance of collateral damage. If they start camping out near schools or hospitals then either a more hands on approach is warranted, or they aren't worth the trouble.
I rather believe that missle went exactly where it was programmed to go to. Either that was sloppy and incompetent target selection without enough diligence or someone just vibe bombed Iran with coordinates a LLM regurgitated. I'm quite positive the Tomahawk itself worked fine with precision.
This song...
Eyedea & Abilities - A Murder Of Memories
When the album came out he was 19.
It blows my mind, first, that a kid so young can have such a well formed, articulated, and ability to show artistically his understanding of the horror of war.
It eludes me that grown ass men can't fathom it til it's within arms reach
Call of duty is actually a bad thing. It gamifies war and doesn't mention the true horrors.