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Since Diaper Donnie is soon going to be rubbing his hands in glee to send Americans now into his meat grinder over wars he starts, how do you plan to avoid the draft?

I'm too old to join, thank god. Too old and too out of shape for them to bother caring. Plus a lot of psychological issues that will make me more likely shoot my superior that's telling me I need to kill innocents to help king pedo succeed in his bullshit missions.

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[โ€“] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

There's a lot of assumptions going on here. First of all, historically 26 wasn't the maximum for the draft but 40, but secondly there's really no rules for a draft. A draft is already so much of an encroachment on one's human rights and legal rights that all bets are off should one be declared. Sure there'll be court orders and legal battles over it but we've seen how that goes already with the current administration, they'll simply delay and ignore while shuffling as many humans out of reach as possible until they can't anymore.

Best thing any of us can do is simply hope for the best. My personal hopes are, in order of declining positivity:

  • There is no draft
  • I'm either too old or too autistic to be drafted
  • I can go back to college to be ineligible to be drafted
  • I can find myself a non-combat role given my technical expertise
  • Whatever happens happens and I'll figure out how to survive and thrive like I have every other challenge that's come my way in life

There's really no other planning for such an eventuality. There's too many unknowns you can plan for, and while I'm seeing plenty of folks talking about fragging, taking drugs or establishing a false history of drug abuse, transitioning, etc. the fact is there's no telling what will happen nor what the legal landscape will look like

[โ€“] BlindFrog@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Brb, getting an autism diagnosis from my doctor