This is exactly the time, send them off to die for the bullshit they voted for.
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
I don’t think Vietnam is views as easy nor was it successful.
Seems the comment you replied to was a joke, friend
No doubt. In response to such a joke, boomers would take credit for a time when the military was successful. My reply is an attempt to preemptively take the wind out of their sails.
What do you mean? Vietnam was successful at destroying free press so no conflict after it would ever show the people the true horrors of war.
Vietnam war medals are participation trophies.
Draft the rich. Working class solidarity is fundamental for revolution. Boomers and Zoomers need to co-operate to defeat the Epstein class.
if they would start drafting the rich, wars would suddenly stop and there would be world peace.
There are many, many millions more of us than there are of them. If we can organize, we can make it happen.
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. Get the ones that couldn’t afford to avoid it into the military. Problem solved.
Not enough? Have a domestic war on “drugs”, selectively target blacks and Latinos, and give them free housing in a state or federal prison.
puts blunt down coz shit just got too real
How about just republicans. If you vote for trump, it automatically signs you up for the draft.
I confess to tapping the speaker icon in the corner. I must be punished.
If you want to be punished I can connect you with some people.
Did it work??
You want to send grandma and grandpa to war? They fought in Korea and Viet Nam, and some of them in the Gulf War. They’re sick of war. And, while some of them are MAGA, they are those who voted for “no new wars” and are now pissed at Trump.
Bernie is a boomer and so are many of the people who support and voted for him.
If you want to stop being painted with one brush, be the change you want to see. It’s not a generational war, it’s a fucking class war.
How about we send the people who support it, and started it–the filthy rich?
Definitely. Generational divide is another tool of capital to reduce solidarity of the working class.
Can you imagine how horrific it would be for the sergeants to wrangle a squad or platoon of boomers and actually get anything accomplished?
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
Dude, I have trouble operating a cell phone.
Let them show us how “lift yourself up by your bootstraps” work
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.
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.
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.
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
Would also be legit hilarious.
Except this is a War by, of, and for Millennials
Everyone who said they wanted to fight radical islamism - now is your chance. Make Joe Rogan a General and let him lead his army to victory
Famous millennial, senile and bloated trump.
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!”
Generational cohort analysis has no business here.
Boomers did this
Applause
Wait, it looks like Millennials/GenX are in charge
“Hey hey! Enough of this generation blaming!”
:-/
Millenials don’t run anything. The senate is still dominated by Boomers and the Reps are dominated by Boomers and Gen X. Boomers have been holding on to jobs so long that by time they die it will be Zoomers time to step up.
Millenials don’t run anything.
Steven Miller, JD Vance, Pete Hegseth, Elise Stefanik, and Tulsi Gabbard all hold ranking positions in the federal bureaucracy. The average age of an ICE agent is 40, with plenty coming into the organization in their 20s. The average age of US military leadership is 44 (by design). The average age of US mayors is 50. The average CEO is 54, with newer executives tending to the high 40s. The average US voter’s age is 43.
Millenials run plenty.
The senate is still dominated by Boomers and the Reps are dominated by Boomers and Gen X
And they’ve done nothing substantial to affect the Unitary Executive government. They’re perfectly happy to just sit on their hands while the younger and more aggressive leadership take the lead. They don’t control the money in a material sense, either. Lobbyists, DC staffers, and campaign bundlers all skew much younger. Dianne Feinstein was drooling into her oatmeal while her Chief of Staff James Sauls was making all her decisions.
Charlie Kirk was a mere 31 years young when he was abruptly unalived. He’d been slopping around a campaign war chest of $85M - more than most sitting governors - in an effort to influence elections through the American southwest.
These are the people running the country.
The fuck it is, we were students during 9/11 and watched our peers get fucked up and die in Iraq and Afghanistan for no reason. The conversion of SCOTUS to conservative and the godamn Patriot Act was already in place before most of us could even vote. The only millennials with the wealth to change anything are nepo babies with fascist dreams who never suffered when the economy collapsed, twice.
we were students during 9/11 and watched our peers get fucked up and die in Iraq and Afghanistan for no reason
Pretty sure there was a reason. The Cheney family fortune ballooned during those eight years. Nevermind the hedge fund sector. Hank Paulson made out like a bandit.
The conversion of SCOTUS to conservative and the godamn Patriot Act was already in place before most of us could even vote.
And then 20 years passed, and Millennials did what about it? Send JD Vance to the Senate? Put a trillion dollars into Bitcoin to gamble on rigged sports games? Spend half a career inflating the profits of Facebook and Palantir and the O&G industry or just straight up becoming cops?
The only millennials with the wealth to change anything are nepo babies with fascist dreams
Because y’all never unionized. You never got over your fear of migrants or your love of Ring Cameras. You never even logged off Twitter.
Millennials bought the poison pill of Boomerism without even getting the cheap homes or the good jobs.
Millennials embraced fascism chasing the American Dream. And now here we are, with hundreds of thousands of you fuckers wearing ICE badges so you can cover your Cybertruck notes and credit card debts.
