Dying for big tobacco: omg what a tragedy
Dying for big oil: omg he’s a hero
Pick your corporate servitude carefully kids
Wanna see me stick nine inch nails through each one of my eyelids?
Copy me and do exactly as I did
Pilot a drone and use it to blow up 9 kids
Democracy’s dead, wait, tryna get this all straight
But I can’t figure out how Cheeto man still ain’t jail bait
And Dr. Schwab said "you'll own nothing and you'll like it" (nuh-uh)
"Then why's you broke yet? Man, choose violence."
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Government: Tobacco is dangerous. You need to be 21 to buy it
Also government *sending military recruiters to high schools*:
[An image of a man in a red suit captioned with the text "Hi kids! Do you like violence?"]
And youth ain't gonna have the chance to drink until they turn 21 ffs.
My parents would buy RTD spirits for my sister aged 15 when she was going to a friend's party or something. They're cops
Can't you, like, buy weed at 18? Or what about vapes? Plenty of literal children using those.
There's no state that allows recreational purchase under 21. Vapes are considered a tobacco product regardless of nicotine content and also require you to be 21.
Where I live weed is 21, tobacco is 18
im guess im assuming you live in the us, but you might want to double check that.
Tobacco sales to anyone under the age of 21 has been federally illegal since 2021.
All tobacco and vape got set to 21 and over where I live so just military and adult jail as benefits of turning 18 now.
Voting?
Alcohol?
That's been 21 for a lot longer than tobacco.
I love america
It's all thanks to the federal interstate highway fund. Setting the minimum drinking age to 21 was a condition to receiving the highway money.
Tobacco is a shitty drug. We should ban it entirely and federally legalize another drug like cannabis instead.
I’m all for legalising cannabis, but to ban tobacco seems pointless.
I want to legalise or decriminalise drugs because it doesn’t work. Banning tobacco also will not work.
Tax high - use money for education and healthcare.
Ah yes. The poorest people are the smokers, let’s just make them more miserable. Sounds about right.
You should work at a place that sells cigarettes for awhile and scope out the customers. I’ve seen people count pennies and cry because they’re hungry but they’d rather not experience the anxiety of nicotine withdrawal.
As a former very poor person and now just regular poor person who used to smoke ikr.
That said, smoking never made me a happier person and at some point we have to do something. Smoking related issues cost the NHS an absolute fortune.
Do I think that corporations and billionaires should pay their fair share so us peasants don’t need to pay at all. Sure do.
Do I think that’ll ever happen. Heck no.
So given that, then we need to do something.
You shouldn’t make assumptions about people!!
Cause banning cannabis worked so well lol
Imagine looking at the war on drugs, prohibition in the US, etc then thinking "I think we should ban this drug that's already normalised and used by millions. Then nobody will use it and everything will be fine."
It. Doesn't. Work.
It especially wouldn't for something as addictive as nicotine and so trivially purchasable abroad and easy to import.
Tobacco is already dying. Just let it continue to run its course.
Forever annoyed that my students have to get recruiters in our school to show up and try to persuade them to join ARMY, NAVY, etc.
🫠 Worst of all was when one of them showed up on International PEACE Day.
It should be pointed out that the vast majority of the military are in support career fields, not combat units. Also, the GI Bill absolutely makes it worth it.
Yeah less than ten percent is combat trained and tasked and only a tenth of them (so 1% of the total) are combat veterans.
Most of the people you've thanked for their service probably worked at a job that civilians do everyday like fixing things or doing paperwork. Just in a uniform.
My primary job was a logistics account, but that meant I had to inventory high value items at Forward Operating Bases in Iraq and Afghanistan and I drove in a few convoys, only once anything significant happened.
And the VA loan. That's how I got my house!
Plus all the intangible benefits of being 'prior service.' Certainly has been useful in my real career.
Generally speaking, a military career is the best means of advancement in social class for Americans. You'll easily move up the middle class and likely upper middle class or upper class depending on time served.
Problem is for people with fundamental incompatibility with the military, either disability or personality clash with authority
Even civilian work parallel to the military can be hard to access in those circumstances
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