“Military aged male” is such a fucking disgusting phrase to begin with, I don’t think anybody should be using it outside of very specific contexts.
It has the same energy as “breeding aged female.”
Its who the US military was allowed to randomly kill in Vietnam.
And was expanded to include literal children during the Iraq war.
“the dead babies were military age terrorists”
— Israel, 2025
I am not sure where I saw this, but I’m pretty sure it was one of the treehouse of horror/Halloween special episodes of The Simpsons with the school was running out of food to serve in the cafeteria, and they decided to punish the children by sending them to the cafeteria where they were Cooked into the food. By the end of the episode, even children who made the slightest mistake such as dropping a pencil in class eaten and served to the faculty
That’s what this feels like to me California literally dropped a pencil and now they’re gonna get eaten alive