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How do you respond when you meet a real world ghoul? (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Seems like every day I meet more guys on a Raytheon coop program or some other project building weapons. How are you supposed to respond when all you can think about when looking at them is the deaths and the blowback their work is directly causing? I know that being well adjusted to a sick world is not a good thing, anyone who can shrug off mass murder to be professional is on their way to being a ghoul themselves.

That being said though, if I went on a Jeremiad every time I met one of these guys I'd be an utter pariah. So fair I've just tried to avoid these people and used them as a reminder of what we struggle against. How do you deal with it?

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Around where I live, I'm like a fish adapted to contaminated water. I just have to keep swimming in it, taking it in, and moving on. There's just that many PMC lanyard ghouls and enough of them want to engage with me when I'm in line or seated somewhere or on break. On a good day I might get peddled some greenwashing proposal like putting up more solar panels on my roof (that I would pay a subscription for that goes to some eco-porky ), or blockchain grift or some "protecting freedom with more surveillance" hustlegrind startup opportunity might get pitched my way because I look like I might buy in for some reason. On a bad day I have to hear about how much they hate homeless people. Department of Defense recruiter vultures are sometimes perched around to swoop up students, too. doomer