Pictured: Three kids holding hand guns and looking apprehensive face a line of plastic picnic tables against a wall. Two adults stand behind the kids. 

Caption: 18-25 year-olds in the US preparing for war after spending their childhood synchronized dancing

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[–] 1 point 1 year ago*

Kids who grew up with this must be in high demand by job agencies rn

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Eh? Those don't look like 18 to me, am I missing the joke? Probably

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    [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    My hot take is that, since US hasn’t done mandatory service in decades, a draft wouldn’t work. I think they’d honestly have a hard time getting a lot of the middle class and affluent right to support it.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    The right just spent an entire pandemic arguing against anyone telling them to so much as wash their hands because muh freedoms, like they'll ever accept those same leaders telling them their body needs to be in a country around the world...and also shot full of a dozen more vaccines.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I mean, wouldn't physical activity (and cooperative group based physical activity at that) during one's formative years make one more likely to make a useful soldier, not less?

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