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Idiots. You are all fucking idiots. Yes, you; from OP to every single person in the comments. All of you are too fucking stupid to spend even 30 seconds reading past the most bullshit, click-bait, headline of all time.
No one is talking about reinstating the draft. No one is talking about specifically excluding Barron Trump. Do you dumb fucks want to know what this article is actually about?
IF the draft DID get reinstated (despite literally no one considering it), Barron Trump MIGHT get exempt because he TECHNICALLY falls outside the maximum height requirements (no special treatment, just the actual limits already defined and laid out).
That's it. That's fucking it. No nepotism. No potential draft. Just complete made up horseshit. It's like saying "If we made drinking milk mandatory for people who are younger than 18, Baron Trump might be excluded because he's older than 18." Like, no fucking shit. That's not a news story, its like a hypothetical a child would come up with.
All of you need to go look in a fucking mirror and rethink your media literacy, because it's fucking garbage. You fucking idiots.
One of us!
Love the energy you brought to this.
Calm down, chief
He needs a snickers. A lot of time wasted writing this.
Well now I know one site to never use to check AI, because I wrote and stand by every fucking word.
Sir would you like some chamomile tea??
Yeah, just like Trump had bone spurs...
I question him being 6'9. Very conveniently just barely above the maximum of 6'8. I bet some independent doctor would measure him as 6'8 or less. So fuck you for defending some rich nepo fuck.
They seem to be cleverly letting everyone know that he's just barely too tall to get drafted, so that when they do the drafting eventually, no one will question why he wasn't drafted. Clever. Better than paying a doctor to diagnose you with bone spurs.
TL;DR - BARRON TRUMP BARRED FROM MILK DRIVE AS IRAN WAR SPARKS OUTRAGE!
Nearly 7 feet tall? JFC. Send that kid on a USO tour so the troops can check out the freak and at least get a good laugh.
So much faux rage. Could you imagine if this guy read Fox News!?
The outrage might be a little over the top, but the sentiment is valid. Click baity shit like this is why no one pays attention to the actual outages going on.
If people are constantly seeing articles like 'Trump didn't say he would rule out pushing toddlers into wood chippers to combat climate change' and the article goes on to talk about how he was asked about what he had for breakfast, then outrage is a little hard to keep up. I actually think that's the worst/best tactic trump has used... Keep the outage going so steadily that people are worn out when the real stuff is out in the headlines.
This sounds a little to close to “when they go low, we go high”. If the mainstream media had been willing to vilify Trump back in 2016 (even with lies of omission and sensational headlines), maybe he would have never gotten near the GOPedo nomination. Instead we have been fed a steady diet of civility and normalization.
Not even close, there are so many things to vilify and mock him for, this is more like diluting the pool.
If someone does 10 shitty things, you don't make up 100 other weaker accusations that can be easily dismissed or disproven. Its like someone kills 10 people and someone starts making up dumb little lies about them shoplifting and tripping old ladies and kicking 100 puppies instead of just the one they actually kicked. If a lot of what you're hearing about the guy is a bunch of lies and half truths, it's a whole lot easier for him to convince you that the 'killing 10 people' is just a bunch of exaggerations too.
I agree with your point for this particular story, but *my *point stands even if it was a side-track from this story. I am not saying that every story about Trump back in 2016 should have been lies or "toddlers in to wood chippers" clickbait. The media failed us hard and is mainly responsible for Trump through their grandstanding and normalizing of him back in early 2016 and every day since then. If they had done their job, there wouldn't have been Trump the nominee, let alone President Trump. Maybe there would have been some other cryptofascist GOPedophile by now, but Rubio, Bush, Kasich, Cruz, etc. would have been orders of magnitude better than Trump...and human filth like Musk, Miller, and Bannon would have never gotten near the presidency.
Yeah, i think we probably agree on most things in that direction. My view is that early on they failed to focus on the glaring, obvious issues and instead used the ridiculousness of him as candidate as click-bait for views, and then later continued to focus on and fall for every misdirection he and his cloud of followers dropped, both intentionally and unintentionally. In my view they ended up hiding all the legitimate issues in a smokescreen of click-bait and likely doomed us to either Armageddon or who knows how long a period of cleanup or simply slow decline.
This 'his kid is going to avoid the draft' angle, when not only has a draft not been brought up, but also that he simply falls into the range of 'all tall kids that would be exempt' is just the latest is a series of stories obviously relying on a false start just to get people riled up if they read just the headline.
Uhh it was completely over the top rant. Thank God we have people willing to defend this level of hostility. Have you ever thought of joining the State Department?
Oh yes, and thank God we are talking about a completely made up scenario of Barron Trump getting drafted instead of unimportant things like the war itself or the Epstein files. Wouldn't want pesky things like that getting in the way of manufactured outrage for dumb shits like you to lap up.
Oh I know! Let's follow it up with an article about how MAGA is totally about to turn on Trump! Or maybe an AI generated image of Trump yelling at Hegseth? Oh I bet he's big mad about that one! Who cares about reality as long as it sounds good and reinforces the pathetic-ass beliefs of the idiotic masses?!
I am sure you give all this outrage to conservative leaning posts and this isn't just a veiled attack on perceived ideological differences. Because frankly, I am not buying it and you are either an epic asshole or a conservative troll. Cheers!
Valid criticism of stupidity that goes against the hive mind message? Must be a conservative! Definitely not someone who's fed up with people, supposedly against misinformation, continuously falling for the dumbest shit imaginable!
Yeah, you act like a raging fucking idiot conservative. Congrats!
How? Please spell it out. And remember, calling out idiots is not a conservative trait. Getting upset at idiots is not a conservative trait. Blindly accusing people who don't say things you like of being conservative because you just can't fathom the possibility of someone not blindly believing and supporting fake bullshit IS a trait of a fucking idiot.
Case in point, acting like an asshole must be a badge of honor or something for you. I will politely ask you to get bent.
And I will politely ask you to fuck off the internet entirely until you can recognize fiction from reality. Your kind of stupidity is what's ruining everything.
He is an asshole, an absolute asshole! He comes onto Lemmy screaming with rage, everyone's stupid and everyone's wrong. He is an asshole, an absolute asshole ohh we oh the world's biggest asshole.
I would rather be a correct asshole than a polite idiot. You aren't upset I'm an asshole, you're upset because I called out the idiocy of people like you falling for this post.
Stupidity is a BAD trait. It is BAD to be stupid. If you fall for obvious misinformation, it is because you have acted stupidly, that is a BAD thing. People deserve to call you out on it because you should feel BAD for being stupid. Our society used to do this regularly and idiots learned to shut their fucking mouths and be ashamed of their stupidity.
Who we talking about here? The leftists jerking off in a circle over identity politics or conservatives jerking off in a circle over identity politics?
Seems to exist all over Lemmy. I'm new around here, migrated from Reddit just a week ago, but this kind of post would get downvoted into nothingness over there. Not for the message, obviously, but for the self-righteous indignation, the name calling, for just being one big spoiled brat temper tantrum. So far, it's the only thing I miss.
At least they don’t bleed in the form of transistor discharges. I’ll take my tempered fellow over the swarm, any day.
You are so correct - that article is a typical example of all the propaganda going around during a war. And yes, we know that Barron will never fight in a war, but that article is propaganda.
Social media and revenue through clicks have ruined journalism.
You mad bro? How that pedopresident you voted for working out? That, "I'm the peace President, no new wars," guy working out. You've been had, yah mook. Take the L. We need this dude out of office. It's hurting everyone, not just the phantom liberals you all make up to froth at. One finger points out, three point back, my dear chudmiester. Damn these dudes are sad. I'd feel bad for them, but ah, I don't. Have the day you voted for! K byeeeeee!
Bullshit. you are obviously either a bot or some partisan hack. Fuck Barron Trump. He is a rich boy. Rich boys don't get drafted. He is also some kind of freak. He would never be admitted to a military academy... unless of course they are directed by a Hegseth (MORON).
I'd be surprised if the military wouldn't give him a waiver for being in inch too tall. Im thinking you don't have much military experience yourself.
Gee, he probably inherited those bone spurs.
Is it bone spurs or is he too tall? You're a bit all over the place and frankly sound moronic.
Go piss in the wind moron and I do not give a shit about the article. You're current leadership is on the same fucked up level as the fucking Nazis who completely failed to understand military strategy and ignored the advice from their best military officers. If the orange clown becomes desperate, because he does not have a fucking plan. he will institute the fucking draft. The US military does have enough boots to occupy and police Iran. Thankfully, the EU leaders will not send their best young people into a shit show created by a bunch of chauvinistic, racist, religious fucknuts and pedophile losers. The USA and Israel are their own and your ass better sign the dotted line or if you are a former soldier, reenlist. I already have my honorable discharge and it blows my mind the USA is repeating history under shittier circumstances and planning.
Right, you think he would not institute a draft? Why wouldn't he? I mean they purged the military of the women, the Trans, the Gays... so who else is left? The fucking far right angry men who can't get women to like them enough to have sex with them. Watch out Fuentes... Watch out Enrique.... they are coming for you!
No, the orange moron will attempt to reinstate a military draft.