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    I though it's some satirical joke so i had to look it up to confirm that it's real. Yes, childish colorful drawings with some childish little girl voice to recruit future "warriors":

    Just as i read Thomas Sowell's "Intellectuals and Society" chapter about WWII and how the strongest military in Europe (French) folded to Hitler's Germany in just a few weeks because their soldiers were raised on come beginning-of-century woke pacifism.

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    • gotta get them when they're young. they have used video games for recruitment. doesn't seem far off.pango
    • also as recruitment standards keep going up, the eligible young males' pool are getting smaller and smaller. hence the female recruitment.pango
    • as for the french, you need to consider they were at many wars. it costs the society a lot of money and stress on the general public. anyone would grow tired ofpango
    • wars eventually.pango
    • why do you think every US president election every candidate were promising to pull out of X war.pango
    • the point is that wars are fought and won not only with weapons but ALSO a spirit. The French have lost that fighting spirit during WWII (despite weapons).pr2
    • The same loss of fighting spirit is visible here where to attract the future "warriors" you use childish images, VO and symbols.pr2
    • Gotta get them interested when they're young. Otherwise college might be a better I deal when they get older.pango
    • What's this spirit you're talking about?pango
    • Idea*pango
    • Good time to stop funding the military.Gnash
    • good idea but hard. any us senate who says that, will stop receiving campaign funding from weapon manufactures.pango
    • the spirit that drives us to sacrifice - something so worthy of the cause, that we risk putting our lives on the line.pr2
    • here in this cartoon this concept is purposefully camouflaged by childish colors and VO.pr2
    • I question if whoever signs up based on this version of "reality" will ever be ready for the sort of sacrifice army historically calls for.pr2
    • first of all who do you think the target audience is? and I still don't get this 'spirit you're talking about. how would you visualize it if you are to pitch itpango
    • Using cartoons for this is wildly innappropriate. What the fuckscarabin
    • We can’t use cartoons to sell tobacco but we can use it to urge idiot kids to become murderers?scarabin
    • Exactly. +Showing how she got dragged into politics when she was just a kid is a very bad idea.sted
    • "Raised by 2 moms... who also wanted to fight for their country when they were my age but the army told them that lesbians are lesser people & can't be heroes"nb
    • Her story is true. The voice is hers. It's showing how "anyone" can be in the military. And the military is allowed to recruit, after all. Not just to meatheadsmonospaced
    • Cartoon is cool, but not really appropriate for this audience, I agree.monospaced
    • By showing that "anyone" can be in the army, you implicitly discourage those who might have real interest in this profession.pr2
    • Her voice doesn't sound like that to anyone around her in real life, just as yours doesn't sound the same when recorded.pr2
    • To use this childish-sounding voice was some creepy choice.pr2
    • her holding proverbial "peace" & "love" sign is the ultimate hypocrisy showing truly Machiavellian forces behind this cartoon.pr2
    • I agree, pr2.MondoMorphic
    • @pr2 u got that reaching out to young people was the goal here. which cannot be accomplished by bloodshed and the reality of war.sted
    • That's her voice tho. Is she not good enough for the military for you?pango
    • @pr2 ahaha yess that is the biggest contradiction in these two and half minutes of WTFsted
    • there is a paralle between your complaints and Leni Riefenstahl's complaints on how real soldiers don't look like the ideal soldier you imagined.pango
    • and to the rest of you who don't like military recruitment propaganda. i don't like em as well but i hope you hold G.I. Joe and the likes to the same criticism.pango
    • they're all military propaganda aim at kids. it's fun to research which movie had their scripts approved by the military.pango
    • lol pango why bring that shit into this argument? fucked up army starts when you have to lower required performance limits in order to show up diversitysted
    • ah ic pr2 mentioned WW2 and hitler lol.
      he could mention the good old Hungarian army in Europe, we did the same.      sted
    • @pr2. "peace" & "love" sign. you're right that is pretty stupid. but considered who their target is. it's kinda called for. lolpango
    • They came in wigs with swords on decorated horses, we just had soldiers hungry for blood with arrows from which there was no escape.sted
    • "By showing that "anyone" can be in the army, you implicitly discourage those who might have real interest" hmmm a touch bit too much superiority complex?pango
    • Target audience... lolGnash
    • Young girls lolpango
    • G.I. Joe style lolsted
    • *GIGOsted
    • https://www.academia…pango
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