• percent@infosec.pub
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    5 days ago

    Are there plans to force people to join the military and participate in those invasions? AFAIK, the US hasn’t drafted people since the Vietnam war (>50 years ago), so that seems like a pretty extreme move

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      5 days ago

      That is why every 18 year-old male fills out a Selective Service form. The preparation is complete.

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        5 days ago

        🤔 I’m not sure that answers the question. So… You don’t know of any imminent plans to use the Selective Service to force people to invade those countries, correct?

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          4 days ago

          No imminent plans, but thanks to the Selective Service, a military draft would be quickly implemented.

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            4 days ago

            Why would it be implemented for those places, but not implemented in any of the other conflicts in the last 50 years?

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              3 days ago

              The US had enough unemployed poor people looking for a future and they deployed the National Guard and US Army Reserve units to the conflict zones.

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      We a similar problem as MAGA in that a large part of the base doesn’t actually understand how anything works and lives in a world of memes and hot takes.

      The amount of people who don’t know basic civics lessons like “Who is responsible for the US Budget?” or “How does military service work?” is frightening.

      No wonder democracy is starting to crumble. A large number of our population has no idea what democracy is about, the day to day that they live in is more akin to authoritarian totalitarianism (corporate life, smh). It’s not surprising that people don’t value democracy… they never experience it and don’t have the education to understand it.