If they hand you a gun and tell you to march off to die in a foreign land, turn the gun around on your killer.
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Why don't Presidents fight the war? Why do they always send the poor?
Of course not. Millennials are too old and unless things kick off in the next couple years, gen z will be too.
What are we calling the generation below them? I’m really losing track nowadays.
Gen A. They’re around middle school and younger now.
A whole generation of Forest Gump's girlfriend?
Before World War I and World War II, many thought things would not escalate until we realised it was far too late. The British intelligence thought the assassination of Franz Ferdinand would only be contained regionally instead of escalating to a world war.
Most wars are class wars and most issues are class issues. But most people are not class conscious. The base tribalism is instead drummed up to distract us from the real root cause. We're seeing the rise of the far right in many countries such as in Europe, US and India. Most of the rise of the right is due to influx of migrants, who are displaced by neocolonial foreign policies of corporate backed governments and capitalism-induced global warming.
Millennials volunteered for Iraq.
This sentiment of 'I'm not going to fight' is funny until the war actually starts. And then it's either you fight early, or you fight late. Sometimes too late.
Nah. I'd legitimately rather kill myself than fight for my government.
You'd be amazed what some good old fashion propaganda will do for you.
The US was so gung-ho after 9-11 they accidentally attacked the wrong country. I know they didn't have any problem getting troops or buy-in from the people of all ages. It was pretty disgusting how quickly your average citizen bought into the bull-shit the Bush administration was selling when it was obviously a lie.
I mean it definitely depends on the circumstances. If Russia attacks here then I'm absolutely fighting.
As long as they are recruiting the dumbest and poorest from your failing high-schools you'll always have enough for your wars.
I'll defend my country, but I'm not going to engage in an armed conflict overseas.
IMO, as long as it's not directly threatening me and my life, then I will simply see another WW as old people who are angry at other old people, sending me off to die for their grudge.
No thanks chief. Stick me in prison if you're so inclined but I'm not about to kill some poor kid I've never met and I don't have anything against, just because you can't use your words.
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Millennial here. Can confirm, I'll be staying home and doing my own thing. One live isn't worth more then another and I'm not going to war. If you're going to put me in jail because I refuse, then maybe I need to find a different country to live in.
On the very off chance they restarted the draft, there are tons of reasons the Pentagon would fight conscription, make sure you know asylum procedures or have the stuff ready to immigrate. Run don't try to just ignore the draft.
They, the last time they did the draft, didn't just throw normies into jail, they grabbed them then kicked them over to the military and then if you ran away and got brought back after being AWOL they just deployed you and let happen what happened, regulars frequently discovered that these sorts had... uhh... "accidents" at a more frequent rate.
The first gun they'll give me I'll aim at myself and be done with it.
You can aim it at your commanding officer first!
My kid doesn't particularly want to fight, but she's ok with guns and convinced anarchy will be good for the environment?! Idk, she's not dumb, but these kids have less stake in the institutions than MAGA retirees..
Does she mean "anarchy" or Anarchism, a stateless classless society based on voluntary associations?
The fact they will never have the chance to enter the ownership class keeps manifesting in new and interesting ways in the media, at their jobs, in their schools, amongst their social circles. The decline in availability of material wealth destabilizes all.
Yall ever seen Daybreakers? It's kinda corny but it feels more relevant every day.
So...they are going to send gen x and gen alpha?
Between propaganda and indecision, a whole generation will learn of conscription.
Uhm, doofus, nobody's gonna fight in ww3.
Bombs get launched and we ALL die, that's how ww3 is faught.
It's frightening how little the younger generations understand about nuclear war.
There have been plenty of wars fought in the age of nuclear weapons that, strangely enough, have not resulted in the use of nuclear weapons. There's a few of them going on right now, in fact!
Me looking at the handful of declassified missile defense sites and wondering what shit we have that isn't known.
Yeah.. it'll just be that simple Mr. Armchair General.

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