A couple of months ago, during the Anime NYC convention in the Javits Center in New York City, the US army was spotted with a recruitment booth along with a hired cosplayer dressed up as the character Misato Katsuragi from the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion. The cosplayer appeared rather aged, and the anime show itself, despite its iconic status, was aired back in 1995.
The military does have a history of setting up recruitment booths at comic book or anime conventions, though its dubious as to the effectiveness of these operations. This recent attempt by the army with the hired cosplayer managed to attract a lot of attention on social media, but most people were doubtful or downright mocking toward it.
More interestingly, on 4chan, a site originally started as an anime discussion site, there were some poignant comments made regarding the whole phenomenon:
>pic related, yesterday snapshot of an army enlistment booth at an american anime con
>fat and bored apathetic zogbots hire a fat model to cosplay as popular anime character and sex symbol Katsuragi Misato from Netflix’s anime Neon Genesis EvangelionVery related, here is an excerpt from historian Tom Holland on the roman recruitment crisis:
>”Even as (the Late Roman Empire’s) urban population remained much the same since Constantinus’s victory at the Milvian Bridge, recruitment among roman citizens by the year 390 a.d had plummeted to barely 15% of what it was was 50 years prior — what is made more dire when one realizes that the Roman Empire after Diocletianus’s reforms required a standing army at least twice the size of that of the time of the roman golden age under Vespasianus.”
>”The attempt to replace roman soldiers for the Foederati (immigrants mostly settled ilegally on roman land) led to a swift competence crisis among the ranks, as well as the disappearance of roman veteran culture. Among the most shocking anecdotes are reports of roman armies mutinying over ‘the absurdity that a roman army must build roads and infrastructure’.”
“As political, demographical and economic factors coalesced, the roman recruitment crisis can be understood as an existential crisis of the empire itself, Simply put, roman citizens rich and poor no longer believed that a military career would be benefitial to them, nor they believed the existence of the military and the empire itself were worth any sacrifice.”
According to this poster, the military’s desperation for recruits appears to draw parallel with the Roman army’s difficulty recruiting from its own citizenry. Another poster goes so far as to dramatically declare the US Army’s recruitment troubles as a sign of its fall:
The Fall of America (2023, Colourized)
>military facing a manpower shortage of more than 100k men (male) to keep the elites of the United Satanists of America well-supplied with children refugees
>recruitment officers constantly sacked due to ineffectiveness, sent to die in Syria for Israel for not fulfilling quotas
>get desperate and resort to buying a recruitment booth in a literal anime convention
>get mocked by zoomer weebs, no one enlists
>half-time comes>MK Ultra side-effects kick in, zogbots have an idea to get back at the zoomies
>hire cheap fat hooker to play Misato from Evangelion
>make her unironically sing ‘My Immortal’ by Evanescence because that is what kids must like these days
>unironically kneel before Misato cosplay to make her look like it is your waifu
>no zoomer enlists, find the idea hilarious instead
>spread to all social media, earning 14 million views in one day on Twitter
>mocked even among military circles worldwide
>become a symbol of american desperation as Israel 3rd impacts children in Gaza and zoomers would rather fight for Bin Laden than you
>it is literally two moms all over again
At this point the US will just give up its own people and resort to hiring illegals in exchange for citizenship.
This is so sad.
A third poster casts doubt on the legitimacy of the military mobilizations in America’s recent history, as well as the government’s general treatment of the very same young men the army is now trying to recruit to fight and die for the nation:
Our government…
>demonize white guys
>call men who play video games or watch anime losers and incels
>up the ante to call them dangerous terrorists
>also call them racists
>declare them the largest domestic terror threat our country has ever faced
>go to a comic convention where you know all of these dangerous white men will be
>put some 3D whore on a pedestal to be your wacky waving inflatable tube man
>ask these young men to die for Israel
Our tax dollars at work.
The third poster’s points sadly echo the the same points made by the above meme image. Young men who are mistreated or generally denied upward mobility by society are not going to be clamping at the bit to fight for it. If anything, looking at historical trends, they are more likely to be the ones bringing about its destruction. In a way, calling them dangerous terrorists will almost become a self-fulfilling prophecy of sorts.
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