post
I can't, my bone spurs hurt.
I know someone who is non reenlistable because they got drunk and did a bit of surprise cocaine the day before a surprise piss test. Wonder if they’ll ease the cocaine restriction too.
I think they should raise the upper and the lower limit. Let’s send 55 to 85 year olds. Maybe that way it will end sooner.
That should be a global policy. These old fucks can start fighting their own wars for once in history
hey thats RUSSIAS policy now.
And Trump will be following Russians lead.
We lost 58,000 in Vietnam in over 10 years, and less than 5000 in Afghanistan in 20 years. Putin has lost 1.2 million in 4 years.
Trump is going to fight a war like Putin, because he will see those deaths as a score, and the more people that sacrifice their lives for him, the more important he is in history. People talk about Hitler and Stalin because of how many people they killed, so if he wants to be remembered for all time, he has to get real dictator numbers for his war.
BTW, when it becomes clear that he doesn't know what he's doing, and he is just sending American soldiers to die in an endless meat-grinder war, enlistments will end. Then he's going to call for a draft, and literally enslave young American men to die for him.
Running up the war dead because he thinks it makes him look more powerful is typical Trump logic.
Fascism is but a cult of death.
In such a perspective everybody is educated to become a hero. In every mythology the hero is an exceptional being, but in Ur-Fascist ideology, heroism is the norm. This cult of heroism is strictly linked with the cult of death. It is not by chance that a motto of the Falangists was Viva la Muerte (in English it should be translated as “Long Live Death!”). In non-fascist societies, the lay public is told that death is unpleasant but must be faced with dignity; believers are told that it is the painful way to reach a supernatural happiness. By contrast, the Ur-Fascist hero craves heroic death, advertised as the best reward for a heroic life. The Ur-Fascist hero is impatient to die. In his impatience, he more frequently sends other people to death.
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fascism
It's the old propaganda strategy of making war, and dying in war, GLORIOUS and ROMANTIC.
No, it's just stupid, ESPECIALLY this type of war. This isn't even being done for economic opportunity, which is evil, but at least understandable from a Capitalistic perspective, but this kind of war makes no sense. There is literally no reason or advantage to it. I think it was supposed to make Trump look tough or something, but it's only made him look stupider - even to his own followers.
And we haven't forgotten the Epstein Files, we've just added this war to the list of his atrocities to attach to his name for all history.
I hope they try and draft my ass. There is no way in hell I'll ever fight for this country again. Been there done that, don't recommend.
Oh thank god I turn 43 next month…really dodged the bullet or draft on that one…
The draft was already authorized to go up to 45, just hasn't been used that high.
I thought it was 44, and I’m seeing examples of that happening back during WW2, such as Pvt. William S. Frederick, Sr.
Along the dusty road to Camp Gruber, forty-four-year-old Pvt. William S. Frederick, Sr., encountered his own son, twenty-year-old Pvt. William S. Frederick, Jr. Both were taxicab drivers from Olean, New York; neither had dependents; and both had been snapped up by their local draft board.
i have a chronic atopic dermatitis and ibs so i wont be eligible other, i once considered it decade + ago until i developed that dermatitis problem.
Why did Trump get rid of all of that DEI stuff again? Wasn't the claim that it was lowering our standards? So, if that's true, then getting rid of DEI should mean we can meet our hiring quotas while still maintaining high standards, right?
Because if they get rid of DEI and they still had to lower hiring standards for the military, just as they also recently did for the DOJ, then that's pretty conclusive evidence that their objections to DEI were completely about bigotry and not about the competency of the candidates.
If the draft comes, I guess this is a perk of having POTS. But I would bet being the only male I've ever met with it, they're going to do all the stupid ass testing because they won't believe my entire medical record
I don't think they'll care about medical issues. They'll probably just send people with them to be canon fodder.
No they won't, but they probably will care when I can't complete training because I faint if I stand up too fast. Or strain too much. Or am outside in hot weather. Or get slightly dehydrated. Or stretch wrong while sitting down.
Only so much they can do to motivate a guy who has no blood flow temporarily.
Postural ortho-tachycardia syndrome? If so then I as a male was also diagnosed with it as a teenager, symptoms have massively decreased with age though.
It's simply amazing to me that we're going to have to start funneling people into Canada and Mexico again to escape this stupid bullshit.
This is basically Trump emulating Putin. 100% if Operation Epstein Distraction goes poorly, they're going to pull the same shit. And we still have (theoretically) 2.5 years of this shit to go.
NOPE! Apparently neuropathy at a very young age. Quite possibly caused by a bad ear infection that went too long or was particularly quick, there's a part that attaches to the vagus nerve.
I learned this because Apparently you aren't supposed to cough when your ear is tickled inside.
But no beards ya god damn hippie!
One of these things is good. Unfortunately, all of it is in service of getting warm bodies to participate in Operation Epstein's Fury.
They'll need adults to join to help clean up the fucking mess of epic proportions that the current administration is creating.


top 98 comments