It's been near 15 years since I read it, but it's kind of a cautionary tale about tradition, superstition, and how easily humans succumb to their base impulses and can commit insane violence.

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

Almost like the goal isn't taking out Hamas leadership. Hmmm...

Holy shit, he actually posted that. What a fucking freak.

Even more reason to pirate.

To be fair the Italians have a 500+ year history of mixing up Indigenous Americans and Indians.

Why are they not talking about couches? What have they got to hide? Seems kinda suspicious.

So we're going to stop supplying Israel with weapons, money, and international cover, right? RIGHT?

You wouldn't know the players, they go to a different school.

So "not tearing society down" means piss or shit on the street instead of in a toilet? Am I understanding correctly?

Hmm, I seem to recall US Intelligence swearing that Saddam Hussein definitely had WMDs and was definitely about to use them on his own people and we definitely needed to invade Iraq to stop him. US Intelligence is not a fact or truth seeking operation; its purpose is to further American imperial interests all else be damned.

Two things not mentioned it that article:

1. Why would anyone want to fight for a country that is so callously disinterested in the welfare of it's citizens?

2. In the last quarter-century it has become extremely apparent that the US Military is not the "global force for good" that it wants to portray itself as. Most young people probably aren't interested in joining up to commit war crimes in the name of making money for the military industrial complex.