If yall could stop lumping Dia de Muertos in your little Halloween events and shit that’d be great cause like…its not Halloween. It’s not Mexican/“ethnique” Halloween it’s not some cute little Halloween after party, it is its own thing.
it means i can oppose war, american imperialism, the military industrial complex, and the cult of male violence without discounting the myriad factors that contribute to someone enlisting, including but not limited to millions of dollars spent annually to recruit children.
also means i’m disgusted with a culture that superficially venerates veterans for nationalist and capitalist purposes while simultaneously fucking them over re: housing and healthcare and suppressing veteran voices should their experience as a vet happen to inform anything resembling anti-military sentiment
