Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Titus G Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: SF writers in the work force JD Vance. Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 18:30:40 +1300 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <8ehfhj9jphf08ssafje6l45ugf8dd4gjub@4ax.com> Reply-To: noone@nowhere.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:30:41 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="87ba5539913d8602a40ee262050d4485"; logging-data="2161265"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1//rn+Bt9vuukInD+/0Oh5Q" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.11.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:W8dBpnajH/ryxssR4s+ByULsGWk= Content-Language: en-AU In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2286 On 11/11/24 08:57, Scott Dorsey wrote: snip > So, while I totally disagree with Vance about just about everything > and I don't have any respect for his fairly recent radical change in the > Trump direction, I have a lot of respect for his service. He volunteered, > he wasn't drafted, and he volunteered into a service that can put one > into the worst possible situations with no notice. This is where we disagree. Who was he providing a service for by volunteering to participate in the slaughter of more than a million Iraqis and the displacement of a further four million from a country of twenty million? The US oil industry? Bush? Blair who later made millions as a consultant for a South Korean oil corporation? At the time he had just finished high school so was an ignorant teenager. Do you have a lot of respect for suicide bombers, members of the SS, the swastika-tattooed white supremacists of the Azov Battalion...? I may be being too idealistic but I have greater respect for those defending their family and communities.