helelrising:

stitchmediamix:

abilify:

adam driver enlisted in the US Marines to “get even” against the evil brown people after 9/11 because “it seemed like a badass thing to do”, don’t forget it

GQ interview source / NPR interview source

He wasn’t poor.

He was bored.

He had a choice to become anything else and he decided… that he wanted to try to live out his retaliatory GI Joe fantasies… Like he said that.

And yet people across the internet are making excuses for him like he didn’t say that he joined up to try and get revenge for the US like he’s Rambo 2.0.

(Yes he was “only” eighteen back then, but that doesn’t mean we can’t criticize him for his past decision or the fact that he doesn’t seem to grasp that his reasons for joining up are kind of creepy… Especially to Muslim people who have to see fandom and media fawning over him constantly.)

I will judge him not because he was 18 at the time, but because as a 30-something adult man he obviously still doesn’t grasp he was wrong. If he’d followed any of this with “and I see now that I was being Islamophobic and immature in my mindset and nobody should do what I did, specially when you are that young”, I can excuse his mindset as the time as an immature 18 year old. 

But he ain’t 18 anymore. 

And this type of mentality is still harmful today and he is a multi-million actor feeding right into that culture. That is why people like Adam Driver should be nowhere in the military and having access to the kind of power men like him get there.