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[+] 172 points 7 months ago (50 children)
  • [–] 63 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    I think I'll go fight for the Canadians in the coming war.

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  • [–] 106 points 7 months ago (13 children)

    A draft would be a civil war, especially if they set it at 42.

    Nobody would fucking go, and we'd see ICE agents used to round up anyone "military aged" starting in poverty striken neighborhoods and eventually expanding.

    trump's dumb enough to try it tho, so we're probably gonna find out.

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  • [+] 32 points 7 months ago (4 children)
  • [–] 20 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Then there’s the timing of the announcement that Barron is ineligible to serve because he’s too tall or some shit

    I had to look that up. Apparently the limit is 6'8", and they claim he's 6'9". Now, the kid is clearly a tall motherfucker, but how much y'all wanna bet he actually tops out at 6'7"? (6'9" is 205.74cm)

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    He might be five inches taller than trump really is, but that would put him at 6'4"ish.

    Not the unbelievable 6'7" that's 5 inches taller than trump's fake height.

    There's a very real chance trump doesn't know he lies about his own height so in his orbit everyone adjust so his 6'2" height can be rationalized. It explains why he can't believe celebrities/athletes whose real (or close) height is well known.

    They dont play trumps adjustment game, so in his head it doesn't make sense they're so much bigger.

    When I played sports in college did the opposite when out at bars. Every guy shaved 4-5 inches off our height because we were tall enough someone would ask. And any guy not in on the joke would lose their shit because it looked like they were lying.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    This is a fucking hilarious joke to play on friends I've never heard of that before.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    The joke wasn't on our friends, it was on any dude that followed a girl over when she'd ask how tall any of us were. Which happened at least once a night at bars when we'd go out as a team.

    We all knew to give the "short height" and when she didn't believe the first one, shed start asking everyone, getting heights that logically lined up until she'd ask anyone we didn't know, who would tell her the real height, which sounded like an obvious lie.

    It was very chaotic, but especially for college age guys (at least back then) it really really fucked with people. If someone hears a group of guys is lying about their heights, they come over expecting a bunch of people adding a couple inches and eager to prove them wrong.

    But it was just some casual gaslighting for funsies.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Huh, so their logic is draft me, give me a gun, teach me to shoot, and throw a military parade birthday party.

    This is going to be one for the books.

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  • [+] [S] 30 points 7 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 24 points 7 months ago* (12 children)

    It's okay, just made a not so subtle reference to fragging. You might be locked up but you won't be murdering some innocent child who was born the wrong color!

    That's my plan at least. Lol but the exasperated kind of lol not like a haha yknow

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago (3 children)
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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Whoever is telling me go there, do that. I'm not looking for the General Supreme himself. Fight war not wars you feel me? That hydra may have so many heads you can't count em but I will be goddamned if I won't swing that sword when it's handed it to me :)

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (8 children)

    I'm all for the draft on one very strict condition; it has to be truly random with no way for rich kids to get mommy and daddy to buy them out of it or into a cushy assignment. When the rich kids have an equal chance of dying in oil wars, there won't be so many oil wars.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    When the rich kids have an equal chance of dying in oil wars, there won’t be so many oil wars.

    Are you sure? Considering anthropogenic climate change cascades, I highly doubt the rich care about their kids.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    That's a fair point, but I would argue that that's far enough in the future for them to convince themselves it's not real. Dear little Chet getting shot in the face by Muslims next week is probably harder to ignore.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    How do you feel about women being required to sign up for selective service?

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    As a woman, I think if men have to, we should have to as well. That said, I also don't think men should have to in the first place. If you can't generate enough popular support for your war to get people to volunteer, then your war can get fucked.

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