I don't pretend to know what 18 year old recruits like these days and this is an obvious case of "you are not the audience."
I don't know any under 30 but have things changed that much in such a small amount of time? Maybe I'm just getting old...
You are. Maybe the Army realized that the type of person that those older ads targeted, weren't the audience they were having a hard time reaching?
I mean... it's school graduation season. A lot of 18 year olds are leaving high school with no firm future plans and/or questions about immediately going to college. The timing of an ad campaign rollout doesn't mean that they "just figured it out."
Did they? They've been recruiting females for some time now.... Not surprising.... the same people who think Star Wars is being woke instead of trying to capture new audiences/new demographics are probably confused by this.
I still think the Army and other branches should appeal to the majority of people in the US. Star Wars doesn't affect our national security interests, I don't care about that in the least.
I don't know what that means.... like there should only be 1 recruiting video for everyone? No, but it does demonstrate drawing a diverse audience. If the intent is to get as many people to enlist or as many people to watch, would you just appeal to one group?
We can go round and round here but those previous recruiting videos I listed appeal to a vast majority of people with different backgrounds without making us look like a bunch p*****s. I guess I'm seeing it from the enemy's point of view...and my mind won't change on this one. That's why it's hard to be a moderate in this country, one side will vilify you as not caring about your country and then the other will call you racist/sexist/homophobic etc. As far as this thread we'll see what Biden does, he's already letting the unemployed in red states get screwed and didn't budget for student loan relief. I'm pleased the orange dipshit isn't President but there's a lot of work to do if this country is to ever be somewhat united again. Our adversaries are chomping at the bit for us to implode and we're doing a damn good job of it.
I'm not going to call you anything, but I think you are overreacting to this a tad. https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/05/06/army-embraces-anime-new-recruiting-campaign.html
I don't know what to tell you then. As a moderate and a 35 year old male, I don't really see what the big deal is. I'm not the target audience and assume they did their homework towards young adults. There's a reason why there isn't a military willingly to face us and it's not because of recruitment videos. Biden can't solve all the problems immediately. The unemployed in red states got screwed by red state governments. Personally, I view the Trump admin and its ideology as favorable to our adversaries.
What about the video makes the USA look like p*****s? The thought of a Lesbian couple raising a daughter? The woman going through intense rehab to walk again? Or was it the college educated Valedictorian working for the Army? To me the biggest thing I got from that ad was they want smart women in the Army. Not just bodies to send into battle.
I got ya fam with the quote function. Trump vetoed Congress against ending US support for the proxy war between Saudis and Iranian called the Yemen War. So no wars? Not true. We just went through supply shock with the Pandemic.... I'm trying to be nice but it's been a few months since we switched presidents so higher prices are pretty logical. Maybe comrade Trump would have instituted price controls? Or maybe his Russian pals wouldn't have hacked a major pipeline operator? I can say the border issue flared up, but it has receded a bit as it does. Low unemployment..... yea........ that has something to do with the Pandemic and kinda embarrassing I'd even have to remind you. Don't eat paint chips fam.... it's messing up your basic cause and effects centers.
I gave facts, you made excuses. Enjoy paying more for everything. Where this is headed is quite predictable. Have you gotten another round of taxpayer funded stimulus? I haven't. Inflation is going to be real and I'm sure you will find away to blame Trump.
So you are glad that Powell didn't listen to Trump shame and beg him to lower fed interest rates to near 0%?
Nope, I gave you explanations. So comrade Trump would have instituted communist price controls? Spare me, I’m not that dumb. It is quite predictable that supply shocks from a pandemic would cause rising inflation. It’s embarrassing I even have to mention it’s been 4 months since we changed administrations or there was a pandemic. It’s basic cause and effect.
"Politicians Play With Fire by Risking Inflation": https://reason.com/2021/05/24/politicians-play-with-fire-by-risking-inflation/ excerpt: Prices are rising, government spending is soaring, and trillions of dollars of new money appears as if by magic. It's all intended, we're told, to sustain the economy through the pandemic and then get individuals and businesses back on their feet as COVID-19 fears retreat. But many observers can't help but wonder if rising prices are a sign not of a country returning to health, but of money losing its value in a world starting to suffer a renewed bout with an old enemy of prosperity: inflation. "Unfortunately, we've turned our backs to inflation during the past decade, and we're about to relearn a painful lesson about respect," warns Connel Fullenkamp, a professor of the practice of economics at Duke University. "The Fed and the Biden administration are dismissing the latest inflation data, claiming that the jump in prices is merely temporary. Besides, they continue, it will be good to let the economy run hot for a while. In other words, don't worry—higher inflation won't be a big deal." The Biden administration isn't quite dismissing inflation worries, but it is downplaying them and putting them in the context of a return to normalcy after prices for many goods collapsed when demand disappeared during the pandemic. *** Policymakers feel comfortable ignoring warning signs because we've been largely insulated from such pressures for a decade says Duke's Fullenkamp. In part, this was because China based its recover from the financial crisis on becoming the world's factory, reducing costs of production. At the same time, it became increasingly easy for consumers to compare prices and shop online for the best deals. Stagnating wages for some people also placed a cap on price increases. "And the icing on the cake was the fall in energy prices, primarily due to the explosion of hydraulic fracking in the U.S.," he adds. But even before the pandemic, Fullenkamp saw signs of inflation in rising prices for stocks, bonds, and real estate. "Most people aren't used to thinking about skyrocketing stock and home prices as inflation, but much of the 214 percent increase in the S&P 500 and the 73 percent increase in the Case-Shiller home price index over the past decade was due to all the extra money the Fed dumped into the financial system through quantitative easing," he writes. If true, that means that inflation potentially remains as great a threat as it has been in periods such as the 1970s when the annual inflation rate, at times, exceeded 13 percent. That devoured the value of money, so that a 1980 dollar purchased less than half as much as a 1970 dollar. And flirting with inflation is only arguably worth the risk if massive government spending and expansion of the money supply actually is necessary to restart the economy. But industrial production has revived to the point that it is only 2.7 percent below its pre-pandemic level. And the 6.1 percent unemployment rate has not only dropped dramatically from its 14.8 percent high last April, but would probably be even lower if the government would stop paying people to not work. More massive federal spending isn't stimulating the economy—it's distorting it. "The Fed-driven economy relies on the creation of trillions of dollars — literally out of thin air — that are used to purchase bonds and push money into a pandemic-ravaged economy that has long been dependent on free cash and is only growing more addicted," Axios Markets Editor Dion Rabouin warned in December, even before economic activity picked up. more at the link
Inflation is being caused by interest rates being low for too long, coupled with supply issues related to the pandemic as well as the 08 crisis which led to much lower new builds even a decade later, and finally yes government stimulus which occurred under Trump or have all of you forgotten how he complained the stimulus checks were too small? Right now there is a worker shortage so wages are rising = good. Supply and demand are actually taking place. With prices high more companies will jump in looking to profit which will create more jobs and will increase supply and lead to lower prices as the curve balances out. The Fed will need to raise rates which they should which will help temper inflation. Patience is required but long term things are looking much better. Higher wages and more jobs creation plus the infrastructure bill.
