Do it. Send me. I will frag so many officers.
Man, I did some light manual labor yesterday and I can barely stand today. I can’t go to fucking war without severely endangering every friendly around me.
So no, 45 is not the new thirty fucking anything.
I’m an xennial and I was already figuring that I’ll never be able to retire.
I turned 43 a few weeks ago.
Sucks to suck, Heg-suck.
I’m not dying for rich people that got power and decided to break literally every stabilizing thing in geopolitics so that they could make more money and then start a war to cover it up.
I might die because of them, but there’s no way I’m dying for them. If they draft, I’m running. call me whatever you want.
In totalitarian regimes—communism, fascism, religious fundamentalism—popular support is a given. You can start wars, you can prolong them, you can put anyone in uniform for any length of time without ever having to worry about the slightest political backlash. In a democracy, the polar opposite is true. Public support must be husbanded as a finite national resource. It must be spent wisely, sparingly, and with the greatest return on your investment. America is especially sensitive to war weariness, and nothing brings on a backlash like the perception of defeat. I say “perception” because America is a very all-or-nothing society. We like the big win, the touchdown, the knockout in the first round. We like to know, and for everyone else to know, that our victory wasn’t only uncontested, it was positively devastating. -Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
communism, fascism, religious fundamentalism
democracy
Point of order, democracy is a mechanism for selecting leadership, not an ideology of governance.
Democracies routinely produce Communist, Fascist, and Religious Fundamentalist leaders.
Like, I know it’s a quote and all. But it’s just a Baby’s First PolySci view of how civilizations organize themselves. Not an ounce of Lockean Theory to be found.
That’s before you get into the reality of Republican governance and practical enfranchisement. You can’t go rolling up on Thomas Jefferson’s slaves and announcing “Idiots, it’s a democracy, why did you vote for this?”
I got banned for being trans 😎
<Deleted my joke because the topic is honestly just depressing and not worth joking about>
Then I’m turning friendly fire on
Edit: Don’t feel too bad as long as I get to take some out with me
Retirement doesn’t exist. Only hospice.
Look at fancy pants, planning to die inside like a millionaire.
The next forever war is overdue.
Oops ima bigo tranny,sorry, I’m not allowed
Don’t worry, it’s only a matter of time before they toss you in jail for attempting to draft dodge and forcibly detransition you, thus making you eligible.
Back in line Klinger
Klinger’s problem was slow reaction. Had he acted before they initially saw him, maybe. My dad was drafted in Vietnam and always told me to go right up and deep kiss the guy taking names. Although I don’t think that would work as well now.
what do i do if he kisses back
put a ring on it
I’ve got bone spurs on my bone spurs.
They jingle jangle jingle
(jingle jangle)
As I go right merrily along
and they say “aren’t you glad you’re not conscripted?”
And you’re too tall and handsome like Barron Trump? 😀
what retirement, my retirement plan is dying in Greater European Water Wars (2041-ongoing)
you mean because we have too much water or too little water?
It can definitely be both.
these are two sides
I assume they target 42 as the median age for men midlife crisis
No, somebody read Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and decided to use the answer to the Ultimate Question.
Isn’t 35 also too old for the draft?
They increased the max to 42
https://www.goarmy.com/how-to-join/requirements
This is not a draft. Which is like 18-26ish typically.
BUT, that doesn’t mean the draft is fixed at those ages. BUT, I doubt they would ever need to draft up to 42 based on the US population and the willingness of psychos to want to a) kill people or b) get paid to kill people via promises of a better life later as a veteran (Baby killer)
There’s the ones who like to shoot things, but don’t forget the c) it’s either join the military for pay or live in poverty or worse.
Tagging you as “killing is cool” for trying to justify joining the military and killing people to have a good life for yourself as somehow acceptable in any situation.
With as much civility as a person like you deserves: please exit the planet at your earliest convenience.
Chill the fuck. That isn’t what they said at all. They said it’s the reason some people do it.
Do you think it’s okay to join the military and kill people for a government who won’t feed its people, just so you can eat?
It’s a yes or a no.
No. I don’t. Some people do. That what the op was saying. Now chill out.
Do you think I should stop criticizing the government and the people who kill in their name just because it inconveniences someone online?
Yes or no.
Not sure where that came from, but tag me however you want. Might want to reread what I wrote that was agreeing with you and adding more ways people get funneled into service? Nothing I said was a promotion for joining anything. Also appreciate the subtle violence in the wish for me… wow.
I don’t need to re-read you saying it’s okay to join the baby killers so you can eat. Kill the baby killers, not the babies. Trash.
Pizza cutter mentality. All edge, no point.
Enjoy your retirement, American. I mean… working until you die because you have no safety net and your country is dying. 😂 byyyeeeeeeee
Oh, so trolling then. That makes more sense. No one could be that dumb.
No one could be that dumb
The first thing you’ve said that I can’t agree with.
I’m not trolling you. I’m commenting on your exact words. You’re the trash here, you think it’s ok to join the military and kill people in the name of your country or God or whatever if your own fucking country can’t feed you.
The fact that you’re not super embarrassed and deleting your comment at this point says a whole lot about you and society
The only actual psycho in this conversation is you.
Good thing I don’t value the opinion of magats or veterans.
yes, we get it, you’ve lived a life of extreme privilege. Good for you.
Yes, we get it, you think it’s cool to kill people for money. Good for you.
I doubt they would ever need to draft up to 42 based on the US population and the willingness of psychos to want to a) kill people or b) get paid to kill people via promises of a better life later as a veteran (Baby killer)
They need a draft once all those Action Hero wannabes get swatted down by Iranian drones and the Canadian troops start rolling in to annex the southern province.
Who knew Fallout would be right about the annexation but wrong about which way it went?
Haha annex. Love it.
There’s a good line from the TV show, I don’t think it was used in the games. It’s in reference to a character that has to travel from Canada to the USA, and someone tells them:
“don’t think of them as humans, think of them as Americans”
Well awesome for me I reckon, I’ll be 44 this Wednesday. 👍
You’re never too old to soak up an FPV drone
Join the navy so that a single $300 drone can destroy a $50B Trump class battleship
Give the war 10 years and it’ll be a $350 Trillion Trump Class America Drone, and be some janky ass quad copter that burns coal
Well maybe we are getting steampunk after all…
35 is the new 27
Draft age gonna change in any real war.
Yeah, they will forcibly recruit anyone they want if their hold on power is seriously threatened
Most of war is getting things fixed or moving to the front line fighting. For every battalion fighting there is another fixing cars, doing laundry, cooking, or getting the paperwork in order for all of those. Doctors are just as important to an army as soldiers. None of those jobs is too much for a 35 year old getting 4 years of service in.
Ageist nonsense.
They used to contact out most of that stuff for us Marines
Good thing I’m 35 in a few months.
You and i my friend
35 is too young imo, or should be the minimum age
Yeah, it should be, but 18-24 y/o’s are much easier to indoctrinate and radicalize, as well as far more reckless in their tolerance for risky activities.
Nah we need the military as an option for poor 18yos with no job or education prospects after highschool. Which, despite the declining birthright, is still somehow a growing demographic.
There’s one more reason to start HRT as soon as possible.
No thanks
