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[–] 49 points 5 months ago (14 children)

I'm totally unrelated news, several months ago the US stated they will start automatic draft registration in December 2026 and earlier this month Israel said they are having an issue conscripting enough people to fight in the military.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/09/politics/us-military-draft-registration-2026

https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-warns-of-major-personnel-shortages-last-window-to-solve-crisis-with-legislation/

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago (10 children)

    Didn’t men age 18 have to manually enroll in selective service anyways? I know I had to.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    It will now be automatic with no choice to refuse

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Why didn’t anybody tell me I had a choice to refuse :( no matter, I outside the selection range (for now).

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

    You could always refuse. It just carried enough penalties to ruin your life if you did.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    Tbf this is mostly just a change in paperwork procedure, it was already required for all males of 18 years to register for the draft. They couldn't actually use it even if they wanted to, one way or another. Nobody would show up, or vanishingly few fools would.

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

    Good way to breed more antisemitism

    Fuck if I care though not my yamulke not my problem

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

    That's not how this works. We all stand together or we all fall together.

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

    There's a lot of people who have no faith in their neighbours anymore and have accepted that the war is lost. "We all stand together or we all fall together." is not the motivating statement you think it is to someone who is just looking for an exit at this point.

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

    It's not meant to motivate or demotivate it's a fact of human existence. I don't care if you have hope (but you must) I care that you fight.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    Hope for... what exactly. Be specific. "Hope" is just a meaningless shibboleth unless you define what for. Who are you asking to fight with you and what are you asking them to fight for, because the number of causes worth the effort is rapidly vanishing. Apathy may be one of the seven deadly sins, but there's been too many rug-pulls now for anyone to have much faith that they're not being taken advantage of again.

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  • [–] 24 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    My theory of the United States Of America being a vassal state of Israel just keeps getting stronger...

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago

    “No one wants to fight for Israel!”

    https://youtu.be/ztVDyTQlm14

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    I guess we are getting set up for the "good versus evil" part of the world's development. Everybody's drawing lines.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    Well, there isn't exactly a lot left to integrate.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Tbf this is mostly just a change in paperwork procedure, it was already required for all males of 18 years to join the draft. They couldn't actually use it even if they wanted to, one way or another. Nobody would show up, or vanishingly few fools would.

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