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[–] 168 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

I’m not dying for rich people that got power and decided to break literally every stabilizing thing in geopolitics so that they could make more money and then start a war to cover it up.

I might die because of them, but there’s no way I’m dying for them. If they draft, I’m running. call me whatever you want.

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  • [–] 47 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    In totalitarian regimes—communism, fascism, religious fundamentalism—popular support is a given. You can start wars, you can prolong them, you can put anyone in uniform for any length of time without ever having to worry about the slightest political backlash. In a democracy, the polar opposite is true. Public support must be husbanded as a finite national resource. It must be spent wisely, sparingly, and with the greatest return on your investment. America is especially sensitive to war weariness, and nothing brings on a backlash like the perception of defeat. I say “perception” because America is a very all-or-nothing society. We like the big win, the touchdown, the knockout in the first round. We like to know, and for everyone else to know, that our victory wasn’t only uncontested, it was positively devastating. -Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

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  • [–] [S] 35 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    communism, fascism, religious fundamentalism

    democracy

    Point of order, democracy is a mechanism for selecting leadership, not an ideology of governance.

    Democracies routinely produce Communist, Fascist, and Religious Fundamentalist leaders.

    Like, I know it's a quote and all. But it's just a Baby's First PolySci view of how civilizations organize themselves. Not an ounce of Lockean Theory to be found.

    That's before you get into the reality of Republican governance and practical enfranchisement. You can't go rolling up on Thomas Jefferson's slaves and announcing "Idiots, it's a democracy, why did you vote for this?"

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

    democracy is a mechanism for selecting leadership

    No, it's not. Or well, it's more than that -- especially ideologically. Quod omnes tangit, ab omnibus approbari debet -- "what concerns everyone must be approved by everyone".

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 2 months ago

    what concerns everyone must be approved by everyone

    Democracies don't function this way. Majoritarian rule regionally occurs in defiance of some portion of the public citizenry.

    Depending on how the Democracy is organized bureaucratically, it may even be the majority of the citizenry.

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  • [–] 130 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    I've got bone spurs on my bone spurs.

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

    Of course never would i EVER frag a commandant of the New Reich in his own tent with his own ordinance, trust me bro! Why would I, a humble conscript, ever lash out at the fascist regime that's rounding up so many of my loved ones for summary extermination? Golly that would be awfully mean of me, just too cruel of me by far, to return even the tiniest, barest fraction of the gut wrenching agonizing tragedy they inflicted on us all BACK to them. Goodness forbid.

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  • [–] 57 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Man, I did some light manual labor yesterday and I can barely stand today. I can't go to fucking war without severely endangering every friendly around me.

    So no, 45 is not the new thirty fucking anything.

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

    When the draft hits but I'm trans.

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

    I'm sure undesirables like us who can't be forced into the military will be forced into work camps.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Autist here, can I join ya? I've got Fallout 1 and 2 on disk.

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  • [–] 74 points 2 months ago (40 children)

    Do it. Send me. I will frag so many officers.

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  • [+] -43 points 2 months ago (38 children)

    So you just want to try to kill someone and be killed if not put in prison for life? Weird fetish lol

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  • [–] 29 points 2 months ago (19 children)

    No, it’s about sending a message that immoral conscription has consequences. If it means sacrificing your own life to send that message, so be it.

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  • [+] -25 points 2 months ago (18 children)

    "I became a terrorist and murdered an innocent person because I didn't agree with someone else's decision."

    The draft will never occur in the U.S. because we already have way to many people in the military. They don't need to have a draft.

    Now if we made education and healthcare accessible to everyone like we should, we might not have as many people volunteering to go.

    Our military would grow to like 10x the current size if we had forced conscription like Israel or Korea.

    We couldn't afford it.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    By definition there’s no such thing as an innocent military member.

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  • [+] -15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    So let me ask, do you think it would be proper to report this as a terrorist site. Choosing to murder a random person who has no choice to the military?

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  • [+] 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] -2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    You are imagining the people who are drafted are brown now? Now we are going fr racist terrorists. Let's see if we can keep building

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

    We have an effective volunteer military, for now.

    When civil unrest reaches critical mass the elites stop thinking about the military as a tool to force other countries to do what they want and start thinking about it as a tool to force the rabble to stay in line. This is the primary purpose of most militaries in the world.

    The failure of the war in Iran brings us closer to that point.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Remember when everyone said Trump couldn't win the election*? And since when has not having the money for war stopped the US from going to war? They just borrow against their kids.

    Although I will point out that Trump and Elon bragged about rigging the election, that's besides the point.

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  • [+] -8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Base any of your thoughts on facts. Trump's an idiot. You are too according to this

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

    If you think "it can't happen here", with regards to a draft, you're an idiot who has their head in the sand. Too many "it can't happen here" things have been happening.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    It would bankrupt the country to add people we don't need... It would be like a sports team paying to have 10x the players and not be able to put any of them on the field.

    Creating a draft would drive voters to increase the pay and benefits of soldiers as well.

    So yes it could happen. But it is a near 0% chance of happening.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (15 children)

    Not sure if you've noticed, but shrapnel-based explosives tend to not leave a lot of evidence.

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  • [+] -24 points 2 months ago (14 children)

    That's just false. Most people hit by grenades live. They are also inventoried, and troops are in teams.

    Why are people upvoting trying to murder someone they don't even know. That's just psychopathic.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

    They will know them by the time they do it.

    That's just psychopathic.

    So is literally whatever they're going to be drafted to do lol

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  • [+] -12 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    So the person your fantasizing on murdering is there against their will as well.. sheesh.

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  • [+] 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] -2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    What the fuck are you talking about. This post was about drafting people to the military, and someone saying please draft me so I can throw a grenade at others who were drafted. 0 people in this have been to Iran

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

    Ugh you sound like the Charlie Kirk apologists.

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  • [+] -10 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    No my man, you are Charlie Kirk right now. Fact. Murder innocenta because of "nothing".

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  • [+] -7 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Anyone who questions? Check his history

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

    Lmao did you go and downvote a bunch of my comments?

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  • [–] 34 points 2 months ago

    what retirement, my retirement plan is dying in Greater European Water Wars (2041-ongoing)

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

    I got banned for being trans 😎

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

    Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia

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  • [–] 23 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    If there's a draft, I hope the MAGAs cry when their kids and grandkids get dragged off to boot camp.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 months ago

    So you're saying I still might have a chance to frag a commander, after all?

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