We have only fans and then we have like the sex work industry and
then we have like actors.
Is there a difference between these industries or
are we all fundamentally selling our body in some way?
>> Honestly I think that selling your body like if we're going by that definition
being in the army is worse than being on only fans.
You're selling your body to the government.
>> [SOUND] Now some might find what Mia Khalifa they're said to be
controversial but the numbers actually don't lie.
It looks like more and
more young Americans are actually on her side of this issue and
we're gonna show you those stats now if you're not familiar with Mia Khalifa.
She's a former adult film star now an only fans model and she did receive pushback
for what she said, implying that being a part of the army is in fact worse.
And she clarified saying to everyone up in arms about my statement that being in
the military is worse than being an only fans cuz you're selling your body to
the government, we're both serving this nation.
What do you think they sent for morale back in the day?
More troops, or Marilyn Monroe in a skirt, damn I like that.
That was good.
She goes on to say that the beautiful part about only fans is that you don't have
to take your clothes off in the military.
You do however have to go destabilize a country and die in the name of crude oil.
If the president is in the mood that week and so I don't know Mia Khalifa, but
she woke up this week and chose violence when it came to her political commentary.
Where's the lie?
Where is she wrong about literally any of this?
But to be fair though,
while she is saying it's worse in these ways to be a part of the military,
she's also not saying that the path of only fans is right for everyone.
She says it's so
dangerous to simply say sex work is empowering because I would never say that
to an 18 year old whose digital footprint hasn't been tainted by mistakes yet.
Now she, relatively early on in her career, was very controversial for
some of the videos she was in and
there's obviously a lot of racism tied up in adult movies and all that.
She has been controversial for a long time.
She's received tons of racist and even violent reactions ever since then.
So she understands how that stuff can follow you and crazy people hound you for
literally years.
But she does say sex work can be empowering to people who have found their
way into the industry under less ideal circumstances.
It can be an extremely empowering way to take your power and bodily autonomy back.
But it's never something I would recommend as a plan A.
But let's get to the the whole point of this,
she's saying that it's worse to do that, to go into the military to sell your body
in this way to the government turns out not a lot of people wanna do it anymore.
The army has met about only 40% of its enlisted recruiting mission for
the current year, with just over three months left in the fiscal year.
The final quarter of the summer is typically when the services recruit
the most candidates following high school graduation,
the military tries to snap people up, right.
Then they're having a harder and harder time meeting their recruiting goals.
And isn't that just a shame?
>> Yeah, it might have been because Trump called people who signed up for
the military suckers and losers.
Okay.
>> [LAUGH]. >> Isn't that way worse than what
Mia Khalifa said.
But if Trump says it, of course.
All right, when you go, that's no big deal.
Yeah, military suckers and losers, but you should sign up for the military.
Okay, so now, what's the reality?
First of all, whether it's me or my kids when they grow up,
if the country's under attack, what would I tell them?
Okay, I would say, no, you gotta go and defend folks,
because that's what progressives do we fight for someone, we don't know.
And so if we were being attacked, I would definitely be in favor of everyone.
All citizens, however they can defending the country.
Okay, we don't ever get attacked.
Like we there's like random acts of terrorism and some have been awful and
spectacular in the damage that they have done.
And in the last decade they've been like 90% right wing terrorism.
I don't know who to counterattack, do we counterattack Oklahoma?
I don't know right?
Because back in the day when random Muslims attacked us,
we attacked random Muslim countries that didn't even attack us.
So I don't know if we're supposed to attack Nebraska or Oklahoma or pick or
a random right wing country.
Philippines, 12 days right wing, let's go attack them.
Right, but so know the reality is in terms of wars, we've not been attacked at all.
Since what the British in 1812?
So I get 9/11,
they were also terrorists just with bigger guns called planes in that case.
So what actually happens is we start offensive wars non-stop.
We're in like a dozen countries, now, Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11.
We attacked them and killed a million people anyway.
So under those circumstances, would I tell them anyone,
including my kids to sign up for the military.
Hell no.
What are you gonna go die for [INAUDIBLE], Are you nuts?
So how can they fix that?
Make it the United States military and
make it the Department of Defense and then people will sign up.
But if it's a department of offense for Chevron hell to the no, no way.
No way, you ought to have your head examined if you signed up for that,
they're gonna send you to kill random people for random corporations.
That's just a fact.
So now, in terms of sex, I have another apparently controversial thing to say,
I don't think sex is any big deal at all.
I think it's just another very normal bodily function and
the whole world has lost their mind over like sex sex.
So, so celestial and it involves like your soul and
your sharing your soul and God is a god you approve.
Can I go ahead?
Right, No, no, sorry, no, no, the celestial beings don't approve.
It's just a bodily function like playing basketball.
I know a lot of people say, no, that's outrageous.
Your soul it involves your soul.
No, it involves your penis and your other genitalia, your vagina.
That's what it involves, like your elbow and your knee.
I'm saying super normal things that people will find incredibly outrageous.
It's no big deal.
So this whole thing of like, can you compare the military to sex workers?
They should be so lucky, sex workers give people joy the military kills people.
>> Yes, as some people know the military recruiting is an issue,
I've talked and written about a lot for years.
And this is just another year in this declining trend of their ability to
effectively recruit and
I think it exemplifies how the American century is over.
You don't have anything to sell people on,
you don't have a national cause to rally people behind and
they've seen through after this quagmire in the Middle East now for two decades.
How farcical the whole premise of enlistment is they tried to sell
people on the ability to find stability, steady income, the ability to buy a home.
And a signing bonus that even now when it's around $50,000 up front for
enlisting, that's not enough.
They're blaming it on negative sentiment spread by in part TikTokers,
but it's kids who see through these lies,
military recruiters are going to lie to you because they have quotas.
You're not gonna necessarily get the job.
They promise you you're not going to necessarily make friends last,
last a lifetime, get free college, have this cushy life waiting for
you when you get out.
Because one you're lucky if you get out alive,
you're even luckier if you get out without a lifetime of PTSD.
There is nothing that they can sell people on right now effectively who haven't
already drank the American Kool Aid.
I got a break from junk.
If you're being attacked, I don't necessarily think there's a moral
obligation for people to stand up and fight back because it's probably
a by-product of our foreign policy over the last several decades.
It's a consequence of our actions worldwide.
So, I don't support that.
I don't want any part in trying to defend this, the entire American myth as it
manifests globally through jingoism, is not something I would fight to defend.
I don't think there's a moral obligation to do that.
So I think the reason we're seeing the decline in recruitment and
the surreptitious practices that they've employed over the past few years.
Like for instance, I saw the army in 2020 lying to kids on twitch,
trying to get them to think they were, they told them they were signing up for
a a contest where they can win an Xbox controller.
And when they click the link, it was a recruiting form.
When you're doing that, you're not selling someone on the idea and
the actual concept of enlistment.
You're pulling a bait and switch to trick children and they let kids as young as 13,
fill out that form.
International law around military recruiting Is that
you can't engage with people younger than 16.
Most countries don't allow it at 18, but we allow it at 16.
And that doesn't stop them from talking to kids in cafeterias,
which if you don't let military recruiters into your high school cafeteria,
you risk losing federal funding.
So what is this ultimately about this is the government and
the military trying to find kids who desperately need stability or
income or any sort of economic advantage in life to get ahead.
Because it's so hard to do so organically and
they're finding these vulnerable people and tricking them into enlisting.
And I'm glad more and more people are seeing through it because you absolutely
under no circumstances whatsoever should ever enlist in the military.
>> Yeah, really fast.
And this is of course if it's not clear because if we don't,
just in case this is an indictment of the recruiters, the military leadership,
the politicians who helped to create and sustain these myths.
The military, Hollywood industrial movie complex that
makes movies that are designed to make you wanna join up.
And the corporations who are inspiring many of the missions, lots of regular
people join the military because they don't have any desire to go kill people.
They don't wanna go defend Chevron's oil profits and all that.
A lot of them do genuinely by that this is about service, this is about defending
your country or that, this is about the economy is terrible.
How the hell am I supposed to buy a house?
Well, they're telling me, I'll get this money.
People join up for all sorts of good reasons and are good people,
but they are allied to.
And we have to make make clear what those lies and
I think George did a great job of doing that.
>> Yeah, so last thing is don't get tricked by the recruiting bonus.
Incoming service members make about $19,000 a year.
And all that support the troops stuff is total marketing.
So they could funnel trillions of dollars to the richest defense contractors in
the world.
It doesn't actually go to the troops.
And if you wanna relative context here now, Mia Khalifa is a giant star,
you're not gonn make this kind of money, but she makes $10,000 a day.
So she would make the equivalent of a service member in the beginning
are their full salary for the whole year.
She'd make it in two days.
I did the math by the way, that's 3.65 million a year.
It might be only fans, but there's a lot of funds.
>> Yeah, so we couldn't make that much money.
Can we make like half that much money?
>> I don't know TYT.com/join.