"It's not a war."
"The war will be over in a few days."
"Maybe...conscription?"
Either they have no idea what they are doing or they are just plain evil. There is no middle ground.
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They are evil people who don't know what they're doing because they're also dumb and inexperienced.
Also:
"Some American may die."
"We could put boots on the ground."
Can someone drop a house on this bitch already?
There are like so many people working on this rn.
The motherfucking racist pedo chicken shit draft dodger is seriously considering military conscription, eh. Every single MAGA fuck should be lining up at the US Army Recruiting Office and signing the dotted line for 11B (Infantry).
Not ruling anything out is their favorite bait, just another way to flood the zone with shit.
Yup. It's easy to spot when "news" fits these criteria:
- Evokes emotional response
- Too dangerous to ignore
- Devoid of any proof of something that is actually happening or going to happen
- Plausible
The key here is that it's noise designed to wear you out by provoking hypothetical scenarios in your head. This is intended to saturate the minds of the most dangerous opposition of all: The smart and educated. It'll go flying right over the heads of everyone else, but they have other tactics for that.
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Lol. I dare them to make me fight for Israel.
I'm 67, and I have so many degrees, they'd have to make me an officer. Trust me, no one wants that.
Sadly, we all have "bone spurs", sorry my guy
Why on earth would the US government risk a public outrage when they can just keep the system as it is and have poor people enlist for money?
Probably because they're planning to start more wars than they have bodies of poor people to cover
Plus, if raping children doesn't generate enough public outrage to create consequences, they know they have a green light to say or do anything they want
Fascism is capitalism in decay. As capitalism "runs out of runway", the capitalists start stripping the country for parts. In order to distract people/tamp down revolutionary anger, and squeeze the last profits, they'll reorient society towards total war. War at home and abroad.
That'll be fun. If I know I'm going to die overseas, with my skin peeled off or bones shattered, or I can die at home with a few bullet holes, I know which one I'll be choosing. Easy enough to make sure bullet holes magically appear in assholes, as well.
Luckily it's all hypothetical for me. Too old, too sick, and too busy not even having a permanent address :/
Fuck man. I wish the best for you. Home insecurity is a massive drain. The American people deserve so much better than this. From an Iranian.
It's a good thing they have all of our voting data and will be able to target conscription on those they don't like, which is exactly why and how they would do this.
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Send all the magatards
lol try it motherfucker.
I'm old AF and already lived my life. Those fuckers will literally have to kill me to take you kids.
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Fragging is BACK on the menu boys!
I say this as a veteran and an officer.
Same here and I entered during the late 1980's. In our ranks, we had plenty of Vietnam War NCO's, with CIB's, calmy explaining to us young cadets/officers what happened to the shitty leadership. Big reason why I do not to fuck with people and their lives when the shit is serious.
Send ice
Why the fuck would anyone want to go fight on the other side of the globe in an imperial war of aggression, when they can use the same energy to fight their fascist government at home?
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FIFA Peace Prize laureate former Cadet Bonespurs will maintain peace by bringing back the draft. I hope all the fighting age Z/A males have exactly the life they voted for.
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A lot of commanding officers are about to have accidents if they do that.
Yeah, I thought if anything, Vietnam tought the lesson that the draft is a terrible idea for overseas deployment.
Of course, learning from history is not exactly the style of this administration.
Lol they'd better not give me any grenades
Conscription, you say? Nice, I'd be joining straight away if it weren't for my...OUCH, my bone spurs. They are killing me today. Sooooooo much pain.
Only Old Draft Dodging Donvict Drumpf knows how much pain I'm in right now...
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I worried about conscription after 9-11 when I was in my twenties. I'm too old for this to affect me (I know, "total war"). Let the MAGA youth go get slaughtered. I truly no longer care. Fuck 'em. Anyone who objects, I hope you're safe.
I used to be such a nice guy. Fuck you, MAGA. I've stopped hating you and I hope you die.
It’s a kind thing to hate MAGA. “Living and letting live” these people is only possible if you simply have the privilege to ignore what they are doing to those who don’t have that ability. That complacency completely strips any option of being a nice person away.
The hate you have for them is not the same hate they have for you. They hate as a basic instinct because they are afraid of anything they don’t understand and they refuse to ever learn anything new. You and I hate them because they’re taking that hate and literally killing innocent people over it before our eyes. Not hating them would be an awful thing.
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to those thinking "if they did this no one would vote for them again, it would be political suicide"
My sweet summer child, they would do this is if they knew that there weren't going to be anymore elections. if they're 100% sure they can pull that off then they will start mandatory conscription.
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President Bonespurs thinks conscription is a good idea, eh?
If there is conscription, they're going to use their social media data from meta and twitter, and any way they can, to select those who are most vocal about being against Trump, so that they die first, maga are happy because they dont go to war, and see trump sticking it to the libs. Meanwhile there are fewer libs to vote against him and fight back.
In fact, they'll probably start by sending off those in swing districts, and may even let them vote abroad woth mail-in votes they intentionally dont deliver and cant be sued for doing so.
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One of the only times I've been "happy" that I'm 40, overweight, and barred from re-enlistment/IRR/drafts.
Oh don't you worry, they'll lower the standards so you and all us others can be included.
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