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The weirdest thing about American culture (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 37 points 3 months ago (11 children)

The "domino theory" of communism never played out the way they said it would. Just a waste of blood and treasure.

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  • [–] 33 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    Any time someone brings up the draft I remind them the last time the U.S. did a draft it was for a war that they lost, and justified due to things that never actually happened after the U.S. lost.

    So basically the U.S. enslaved and sent tens of thousands of people to their deaths for no reason.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    They then abolished the draft due to public pressure but a little bit later started selective service registration just in case

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  • [–] 19 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Draftees make horrible soldiers, especially in unpopular wars which, lets be honest, have been all of the US' military engagements since 1945. I think the military would rather do without them and the grenades that tend be dropped into the tents of sleeping COs.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    My wife and I were talking about a draft for Iran and whether they would widen the age range they're looking for and try to draft me. I said that if they tried, I would promise them that if they handed me a gun that I would use it to kill as many high ranking American officers as I could because I'm much more dangerous than a pacifist or conscientious objector; I will actively sabotage a war that I don't believe in and that I'm forced to participate in. So I think they'd let me stay home. If you force me to give my life for a cause, I'm gonna be the one to pick the cause.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago*

    Depends how everything else is going. Probably at the point we have a draft to go to Iran, we'll already be an authoritarian state and your options are to go to to war or to ICE camp. You think Russians are volunteering to die in Ukraine?

    But I'd be curious if that would have worked in Vietnam. I'm guessing they would just put a note in your file to subject you to as much abuse as possible or just kill you the way they did Pat TIllman. Conscientious Objector status is a really a sop to religion, otherwise I think a lot of people could qualify for it.

    Edit: Get out of the US if you at all can.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    Well it largely never played out because western capitalists spilled so much blood making sure it wouldn’t. If people had been free to decide for themselves, many more countries would have gone communist, as it has better outcomes for the majority of people than capitalism.

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