Imagine being fucking 42 and still willing to kill/die for this shithole country. wew.
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Idk, I think there's a real demographic of Divorced Dads who could qualify.
*massacres entire village*
"fuck you, stacy!"
The Epstein class has to cull the proletariat somehow.
35 is also pushing it
Make it a donut hole. Not eliglbe between the ages of 36 and 66 ^1/2. Drone technology can easily be applied to rollators and walkers.
I'm pretty sure that what you're suggesting is very nearly the plot of John Scalzi's "Old Man's War"
As a soldier, don't we reserve the right to ignore orders that are unconstitutional?
Donald Trump and his war and all his followers can literally go fuck right on off with that bullshit. You can send all the republicans who voted for this shit including the republican senators. If 42 is cool, why not even older. Shit, they’ve lived their lives. Take one for the team guys
You could get a waver to join at that age. I do think the US Military is a great option for people but it can be hard on a family though. It’s one of the reasons most of my friends did not renew. At 42 your probably have kids and probably have your life mostly fleshed out. The military was great for a lot of my friends and the benefits are good.
This admin I don’t trust why they are moving the goal post
I'm feeling goarmy
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.
I’ll hide ya.
I'd call you sane
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?"
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Oops ima bigo tranny,sorry, I’m not allowed
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.
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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.
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what retirement, my retirement plan is dying in Greater European Water Wars (2041-ongoing)
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