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The military is gay [Part 3]: Laughably misplaced valour

Self-respecting men with dignity and integrity cannot allow themselves to tolerate the indignities and humiliation rituals of the military. Truly masculine men do not blindly and passively obey orders to kill hopelessly outgunned mullahs from a safe distance while fooling themselves they’re doing it “for freedom” or “for democracy” or “for God”… or for whatever nonsense every useful idiot in uniform mutters to himself to bed to justify his useless existence. https://sotiris.substack.com/p/what-makes-a-man **Propaganda** Our deluded sense of valour is the result of military state propaganda that **glorifies obedience and mass murder** in the name of supposedly “protecting your country” when in fact it’s doing your corrupt **pedophile government**’s bidding. Fighting for your government is actually the opposite of fighting for your country, since megalomaniac ruling elites are much more likely to choose the route of violence when they themselves, nor their families, will ever have to fight. We have centuries of propaganda portraying the military male as some sort of valiant superhero sacrificing himself for king and country, supposedly serving higher ideals, and protecting us all from evil (because the soldiers of the enemy aren’t as valiant as ours, right?). I held this deluded belief, too, until I joined the army as a draftee. I thought I was doing something cool, manly, and noble. Nothing could be further from that. The reality is that every new recruit quickly finds out what kind of nonsense the military is, but keeps on pretending it’s valiant so that he can exploit the misplaced respect that comes with being mistaken for valorous on the merit of wearing a stupid uniform. All these dudes in uniform you see out there? They know what a joke they are; they just pretend they’re Rambo or whatever bravado-caricature of masculinity those propagandistic war movies depict in their minds. In fact, males in uniform are nothing but glorified thugs. They know they are unmanly, they know they are weak, pathetic submissives, yet they go with the false narrative, with the help of state-funded Hollywood propaganda, that they are somewhat extra manly. They are not. Men (actual men) provide stability, safety, and resources for their community and family, and they stay close to their family to protect them. Men don’t abandon their families to ship far away to kill and die in a ditch, blown up by a nerd with a drone. For the thugs who bring loot from war, what kind of burden do they place on their families, to enjoy blood money and base their lives on the brutal death of others? **Not masculinity** **You cannot trust a male without the integrity to disallow the indignities of the military**, or any indignities, for that matter. Yes, we all reluctantly and recalcitrantly submit to the superior violence of the state, but we are recalcitrant when we do so. We don’t willingly and pridefully enlist in the state’s ranks for that extra humiliation, that **test of fealty** that all obediently pathetic dogs and Uncle Toms must go through to prove their loyalty. Masculinity is all about integrity and dignity. You can find neither in the ranks of any military. The military is all about erasing your individual sovereignty so that you become obedient and unquestioning. https://sotiris.substack.com/p/how-to-be-the-most-alpha ***The military is not about making you the best you can be; it’s about making you the most obedient you can be.*** **The myth of military valour** Military valour is a myth. **War is slaves killing each other over which slave master will get to manhandle them**. War is mindless collectivist socialism, as all structures of perceived “authority” are. https://sotiris.substack.com/p/socialism-fascism **There is nothing noble about killing and dying for your government**. True leadership can only exist where there is voluntary agreement, complete with informed consent. Actual leadership does not require silly hats and gay glittery uniforms to desperately advertise a false sense of perceived “authority”. https://sotiris.substack.com/p/the-truth-about-leadership **Literal uniformed gayness** Remember when super-duper macho commando turned transgender MMA fighter. Yeah, that’s ‘Alana McLaughlin’ for you.

Or how about all these gleefully unabashed gay parades by uniformed dudes with smiley faces of relief as if finally able to freely express themselves? https://x.com/charlotteemmauk/status/1941942983596666883 Or how about all those prideful gays in uniform posting their silly mugs on social media while wearing their obedient doggy gimp masks — a fitting decor for any submissive to arbitrary “authority” and the humiliating indignities that come with it.

Speaking of obedient submissive doggies, military people vainly wear literal dog tags, and, ironically, they don’t quite see the pathetic indignity in it.

They see themselves as dogs, pathetically obedient creatures with Stockholm Syndrome, gleefully groveling to their master even if the master is being abusive to them, especially so. They take pride in their subservience. They parade proudly. **The military is one big gay pride parade**. Imagine how little dignity one must have to willingly wear, with “pride”, no less, literal dog tags. Imagine parading pridefully for being a bottom dog to be manhandled like nothing. It’s no accident they call gay celebration a “pride parade,” as pride and parades are what the military excels in. It’s no accident that the “gay pride” phenomenon is centered around a parade. There is nothing gayer than the flashy flamboyance, begging for attention, that parading represents. Since the dawn of history, it’s been a common secret that males of a conquering army would literally rape males of the defeated group. Sure, humiliation and all, but to get excited to do this means something else entirely: that the possession of institutional power over others twists them into homo-eroticism, especially towards same-sex individuals who are loathed. Never forget the video where the “uber-manly macho” soldiers of Israel ritualistically gang-raping their male prisoners on camera. Be as gay as you want, but don’t pretend this type of vomit-inducing behaviour has anything to do with masculinity. https://x.com/wkmurey/status/1940574615019180435

**Idolising daddy figures** Males idolising other males is the definition of gayness. Here’s a quote by Eric J. Brooks: ***Hero worship is inherently unmanly. A woman who admires a man is following nature. A man who admired other men emasculates himself.***

And it’s true. Sure, a man can respect other men who share his values, but admiration? That’s gay. **The reality of the military** Very few who have actually had military experience will admit what a pathetic and sick shitshow every military in the world is.

I joined the army and thought it was noble. From day one, I saw petty people, abusive people with crippling psychosocial issues who took pleasure in abusing others. Outside of the uniform, they were nobody’s. They had no power. You could see where their weakness came from. This is why they needed the facade of the uniformed fake Chad.

All I saw in the military was weak males insecure about their manhood enough to overcompensate with a comic-book caricature of masculinity - the military man. This was especially true for officers and professional soldiers, those who can do anything else with their lives yet choose to enlist as **soldiers, the caricature of manliness, to compensate for their lack of masculinity**. The uniform, based on centuries of state propaganda, serves as social “proof” of supposed “manliness,” so the military attracts all the weaklings, the losers, those who know they aren’t men and desperately seek to prove something. Propagandised society and female whores applaud these gay gimp uniforms and silly good-boy patches, thus perpetuating the false narrative about the supposed manliness of the military. However, an unmanly male miserably cosplaying as a caricature of masculinity — the soldier — is simply sweeping his issues under the rug. His cognitive dissonance is always there, which is why all these military dudes are so snappy, sensitive, and irritable. They may tell themselves they are manly for holding a gun and abusing or killing people with no institutional power, but deep down, they know they are (at best) vulnerable little boys in need of daddy’s approval.

**Humiliation** **The military is one big humiliation ritual** by which the humiliated seek to rise in the ranks to humiliate others as they were. But in the end, humiliation never ends because there is always a higher rank to humiliate you again and again and again as you squeal like a pig ‘Yes, sir!’ Pathetic. Willingly taking needless humiliation doesn’t make you tough. It makes you pathetic and unmanly, and demonstrates your lack of integrity. It’s not about what you can passively take. It’s about what you allow. Men — true men — do not pridefully subject themselves to indignities, not willingly at least, and they definitely don’t celebrate laughable homo-erotic subservience as if it’s a virtue. No self-respecting man willingly submits to the degrading, berating, shaming, and sadomasochism of the military. And I’m not just talking about basic training: the time when new recruits have to be broken, denied their individual identity, and then built up again as a collectivist drone, obedient and pathetic. The humiliation rituals of the military never end. The purpose of ritualistic abuse is to consistently break your individuality, to dissociate you from your true self, to break your identity and your will, and thus render you more susceptible to mindless collectivism and unquestioning loyalty. Only idiots would serve such evil interests. ***The military doesn’t make you the best you can be. Far from it. It makes you the most obedient you can be… the worst you can be.***

**“Brothers” in arms** True Detective Season 2 showed the tragic reality of gayness in the military; soldiers getting “too close” by managing together their PTSD from the hardship, stress, fear, and insanity of war, and so they end up twisted and perverse together, in denial of their homoerotic tendencies. The military’s homoerotic fantasy of “brothers in arms” attracts closeted homosexuals who are too ashamed to admit to others, and too guilty to admit to themselves, that they are indeed homosexuals. The military is the perfect place for closeted homosexuals, surrounded by males with whom they share a bed, a shower, and most of their time. They can get into a deep emotional connection with each other through the meaningless hardships that the military puts them through, while always retaining the plausible deniability of “*it’s not gay, it’s just a deep connection cause we’re just brothers in arms*”. What about the Spartans? The Samurai? Alexander the Great’s Macedonians? All socialist homoeritism collectivism. This identity-denying collectivism is the ultimate indignity and violation of integrity.

Does it get any gayer than this image? **Psychological profile of the military male** The psychopathy of many military people is darker than just closeted gayness. The military is full of people who want to kill legally, and without taboo. The military grants them this opportunity. To protect these bloodthirsty thugs, state propaganda through media, entertainment, and schooling pushes a narrative to protect their reputation. The false narrative grants wannabe killers in uniform every excuse in the book: “*it’s just a draft, it’s your duty, it’s to protect, it’s to serve, it’s to fight fascism or <enter the latest trendy boogeyman here>*”. Propaganda also implies that, for military people, “*there weren’t any opportunities*”, supposedly… You know, just like every thug and prostitute keep saying, just because they’re too lazy to do an actual job that provides actual value to humanity. Mercenaries like the US military are just killers for hire on pedophiles’ dime. Draftees also follow orders from pedophile elites, but they submit out of fear of military police and he threat of public shaming if they don’t. Is this manly? Is this valorous? No. I’ve reluctantly been in the army as a conscript. I saw how many draftees relished the opportunity to kill. Although I never saw actual combat, I did see the blood lust in the eyes of other draftees when we had red-alert close calls and some pointless exchanges. **The weakest males are the most vicious monsters**. ***Fuck every military and everyone in it.*** **Key takeaway** Don’t confuse masculinity with bravado. For example, those bodybuilders with their needy, desperate-for-applause cringeworthy poses that only impress insecure teenage boys or infantilised males? That’s got nothing to do with masculinity. Nobody that matters is impressed by macho-bravado faux-masculinity posing for desperate validation. If it’s desperately begging for attention and validation, it’s not masculine. Period. Military uniforms scream insecurity and desperation: “*Look at my badges and glitter, look what a big boy I am. Please, love me!*” Pathetic. Do not waste your respect on the military. **P.S.** If you label me “homophobic” for using the term ‘gay’ in a derogatory manner, you are not paying attention. Writing is all about knowing your audience. Those who need to read this, those who must get over their pathetically misplaced worship of the military, tend to have a perverse idea of masculinity, confusing it with insecure bravado. The term ‘gay’ is particularly impactful in shattering their delusion. **Recommended reading:** ‘The Private Production of Defense’ by Hans-Hermann Hoppe https://mises.org/library/book/private-production-defense ‘The Myth of National Defense Essays on the Theory and History of Security Production ‘by Hans-Hermann Hoppe https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_LpBnnrc06s4C ‘War Is A Racket’ by Smedley Butler https://archive.org/details/WarIsARacket **Military memes**

**The military is gay** https://sotiris.substack.com/p/the-military-is-gay **Sotiris Rex** https://substack.com/profile/58797461-sotiris-rex · **September 13, 2024** The fetishization of the military is the homo-erotic fantasy of weak males with crippling insecurities and no conviction in their masculinity. Theirs are unresolved daddy issues with internalized abuse and humiliation from other males - such that the abused end up identifying with and justifying their abuse (and even enjo… **Read full story** https://sotiris.substack.com/p/the-military-is-gay **The military is gay [Part 2]** https://sotiris.substack.com/p/the-military-is-gay-2 **Sotiris Rex** https://substack.com/profile/58797461-sotiris-rex · **Mar 5** All the machismo and bravado associated with the military are just propaganda to lure in insecure unmanly males in desperate need of proving themselves as men because they are not. Real men don’t need the external validation of good-boy stars on gay gimp suits, nor the cringe-worthy military performances begging for cheap applause by impressionable joll… **Read full story** https://sotiris.substack.com/p/the-military-is-gay-2