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A modest proposal

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Submitted ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨MTZ@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • WoodScientist@lemmy.world ⁨32⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    I mean, with modern drone armies, there’s less and less need to restrict the draft to they young…

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  • FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I dont see the issue, obviously they’ll just pull themselves up by their bootstraps and win the war, it was easy back in their day so it’ll be easy for them now. Kids today are just lazy

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    • blitzen@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t think Vietnam is views as easy nor was it successful.

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      • nonius@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Seems the comment you replied to was a joke, friend

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      • waterSticksToMyBalls@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Vietnam war medals are participation trophies.

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  • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    This is exactly the time, send them off to die for the bullshit they voted for.

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  • bearboiblake@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Draft the rich. Working class solidarity is fundamental for revolution. Boomers and Zoomers need to co-operate to defeat the Epstein class.

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    • pulsey@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      if they would start drafting the rich, wars would suddenly stop and there would be world peace.

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      • FatVegan@leminal.space ⁨5⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        Soldiers would suddenly make tax free millions while not actually going to warzones. They’d still rape children, like real soldiers

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      • bearboiblake@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        There are many, many millions more of us than there are of them. If we can organize, we can make it happen.

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  • gigastasio@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I confess to tapping the speaker icon in the corner. I must be punished.

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    • deacon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If you want to be punished I can connect you with some people.

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    • Tja@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Did it work??

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  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Dude why do you think they had Vietnam?

    Wasn’t enough houses, colleges, and jobs for all of the boomers that were coming of age.

    Cull the herd a bit. Problem solved.

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    • BigBrainBrett2517@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      puts blunt down coz shit just got too real

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  • DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You want to send grandma and grandpa to war?

    How about we send the people who support it, and started it, and the filthy rich?

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    • shane@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Definitely. Generational divide is another tool of capital to reduce solidarity of the working class.

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  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    How about just republicans. If you vote for trump, it automatically signs you up for the draft.

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  • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Can you imagine how horrific it would be for the sergeants to wrangle a squad or platoon of boomers and actually get anything accomplished?

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  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Would also be legit hilarious.

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  • Redvenom@retrolemmy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Let them show us how “lift yourself up by your bootstraps” work

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  • Fishnoodle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I mean modern weapons are so easy to use that even the elderly can be effective with them. I agree, let’s draft them. More jobs, more houses for real Americans

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    • Simulation6@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Dude, I have trouble operating a cell phone.

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  • totally_human_emdash_user@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Is this community no longer going to be about posting shitposts? Because if I want political posts then I can get that from the many politics communities that already exist, or by reading newspapers.

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    • NotSteve_@piefed.ca ⁨39⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Seriously, I love the actual shitposts posted here but most of the time it feels like I’ve accidentally subscribed to USA politics or something

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  • Agrivar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I ran into an elderly man at the grocery store this weekend, proudly wearing a crisp new “Trump 2028” baseball cap. Make his dumb ass a front-lines infantryman.

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  • Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There is a compelling argument to partially revert to the days of warrior kings. Every government who wants war has to be conscripted to fight on the front lines.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Except this is a War by, of, and for Millennials

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    • Tja@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Famous millennial, senile and bloated trump.

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      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Sort of the joke. “Trump’s brain dead! He’s being led around by the nose!”

        “Okay, who is leading him around”

        glances at the Millennial/GenX cabinet “Trump is playing 11D chess!”

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    • Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Generational cohort analysis has no business here.

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      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Boomers did this

        Applause

        Wait, it looks like Millennials/GenX

        “Hey hey! Enough of this generation blaming!”

        :-/

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