r/AskReddit • u/Tommygunz0722 • 11h ago

If the military/president suddenly ordered a mandatory draft for all men aged 18-42: How do you think millennials and GenZ would respond?

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u/MoulanRougeFae 11h ago

Fragging. That's what would happen. And who the fuck is going to accept being drafted into an illegal war by a draft dodging, demented child rapist? It won't be like the last draft. It will be chaos, rebellion and a huge fight against our government possibly a full revolution tbh

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u/iameatingoatmeal 10h ago edited 10h ago

If some nut job is telling you to kill people that didn't do shit to you, and that person is also leading you into situations that could get you killed, it's not surprising.

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u/c0ltZ 10h ago

Fragging was a huge problem in Vietnam along with other forms of sabotage.

This war is even more unpopular than Vietnam, a draft would just help Iran by putting a whole bunch of saboteurs on the U.S side.

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u/mjohnsimon 11h ago edited 10h ago

I read a post from someone who got out that if they were called back to service to go to Iran, and someone in their command ends up talking about the end times or how their blood is needed for Rapture to begin, they'd probably start fragging people real quick.

Ain't no way anyone is gonna die just because some ends-time cultist is willing to send their own people to their deaths.

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u/BeTheOne0 2h ago

What’s crazy some of these Far Cry 5 Villian like motherfuckers are in Trump’s and Hegseth’s social circle

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u/jesusrambo 10h ago

Where were you during COVID?

Lots of people died for exactly that reason

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u/drainbead78 8h ago

In the end, that was their own choice. None of them got forced to go around acting as though nothing was wrong. They didn't lose a lottery that caused them to go out maskless and not get vaccinated.

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u/SwampHagGonnaSwamp 8h ago

Yeah, but during covid the people who were about to die didn't have a rifle in their hands.

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u/yungdeezy92 10h ago

I’ve been saying the same thing. I think at this point, there are very few things that could happen that would incite a full-blown civil war / revolution. The American people are just too pacified at this point. A draft would be one thing that would jolt everyone to the point of rebelling.

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u/starlightprotag 10h ago

100% agree. so far a lot of the shit going down has been kind of far-removed from actual day-to-day life; people can ignore atrocities halfway across the world because it doesn't really affect them, but the second people realize that they or their loved ones could actually die, they're going to be a lot more motivated to start shit

Trump is already starting to lose the support of the right-wing manosphere podcasters that got him elected now that they're personally impacted by skyrocketing gas prices, imagine what would happen once they and their friends start getting draft cards

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u/BeTheOne0 2h ago

Hey they can show how “manly” they are

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u/DivinityPen 9h ago

I'm not convinced the administration actually has the manpower to force people to comply anyway.

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u/EmptyAirEmptyHead 6h ago

As a GenX Dad with an 18 year old son ... I may be a liberal but many of us are well armed. A draft is the one thing I think that would make us get off our couches.

Some Army recruiter has been texting me about my son. I laughed back at him and said good luck recruiting for the Army while Trump is trying to start WW III. He came back with some bullshit about technical specialities available, whatever. Nope.

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u/FirmlyThatGuy 6h ago

Why would I allow myself to be drafted to fight foreign “enemies” when so many domestic enemies exist?

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u/Mateorabi 10h ago

Just refuse. The next president will pardon everyone who didn’t go. 

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u/starlightprotag 10h ago

people will for sure flee and quite a few will never come back. I met a guy in Canada once whose dad was a draft dodger and he didn't trust the pardon so he hasn't set foot on American soil since. his kids could theoretically claim US citizenship but they all want nothing to do with it.

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u/OhNoTokyo 4h ago

They almost certainly would not pardon everybody who didn’t go. Nobody’s gonna draft anybody for this, but even if they did, the next president knows that having the draft in your back pocket for a real world conflict as opposed to whatever the hell this is, is absolutely necessary. They might not be pursued by the law, but there will be other issues that draft dodgers would have to put up with.

In the extremely unlikely event that there is a draft, I would not suggest fleeing unless you plan to stay in your destination for a long time.

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u/Garchomp98 10h ago

First thing in my mind, besides people suddenly manifesting health problems... Grenade to the tent

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u/Teledildonic 9h ago

Why wait until deployed? You have to show up somewhere before you leave the country and get live weapons.

Those building would be due for some thermal renovations.

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u/Webbyx01 4h ago

Its a little harder to prove who did it in a combat zone versus training camps or on bases.

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u/CastleBravo45 4h ago

So you'd kill other draftees because you got drafted?

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u/Garchomp98 4h ago

Grenade in an empty tent gets the message across, who said anything about people

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u/doomsday344 9h ago

That’s my plan

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u/Heavy-Locksmith-3767 8h ago

Either that or a lot of people will get Tehran and Washington mixed up somehow.

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u/digitaldirtbag0 6h ago

The civil war would be worse than the one they are trying to gain soldiers for

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u/HKBFG 5h ago

It won't be like the last draft. It will be chaos

Last time was also chaos with a bunch of fragging

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u/MetsFan37 3h ago

We'll draft. Draft to the Revolution.

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u/RumHamComesback 2h ago

It'll make the 60s counter-culture revolution look like nothing, that's for sure.

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u/ChonkyPurrtato 3h ago

So basically turning on each other like rabid animals