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176. The Military E-Girl Industrial Complex

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The American Military Is Out on That, I'm Glad You've Said It

I think the problem that I have with it is, I guess, by putting this kind of oo-woo cute like Sanrio Sheen on something which has very horrific like real world consequences is attached to so much trauma. It kind of changes our conception of what it means to be a soldier by kind of sanitizing it and pacifying it. A lot of people you could say arguably could enlist because for instance how the US military last year were recruiting people on Twitch throughEsports. The entertainment industrial complex isn't anything new really if we pedal back like literally like decades like Top Gun, King Konglike all of these big Hollywood franchises were funded by the US military to some extent

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