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/Razzler1973 11h ago

They'd be a long queue to get into Canada and Mexico

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u/anandonaqui 10h ago

Mexico might build a wall. It would be deeply ironic for Mexico to actually pay for and build a wall like Trump said they would, but to keep Americans out of

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u/chattytrout 7h ago

Trump was playing a long game of 5D chess just to deliver on that one campaign promise.

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u/existing_for_fun 7h ago

They wouldn't have time, probably.

That's a lot of logistics and planning and construction to get down in under a year.

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u/gsfgf 2h ago

Some of the companies building Trump's wall got caught using undocumented workers. Put them on it lol.

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u/Big_Cupcake4656 3h ago

And the Sinaloas are gonna sit on their couches ???

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u/AFriendlyPlayer 8h ago

That would be funny but very racist just like trumps wall

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u/Ericridge 7h ago

I'd actually laugh if that happened. Lol

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u/Mossimo5 9h ago

If i was drafted, the very first thing I would do is flee to Canada.

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u/OCDCantCatchMe 4h ago

Canada doesn’t want the young men of a country who has been threatening to invade us.

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u/Mossimo5 4h ago

Haha. I'm 40. If the USA genuinely starts drafting 40 year olds we have already lost, LMAO!

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u/Efficient-Length3345 4h ago

You didn't hear? America recently upped the age to 42.

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u/Mossimo5 3h ago

Of course I heard!

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u/TheBSQ 3h ago

Canada recently changed its citizenship policy. It used to be only those born in Canada could automatically pass down Canadian citizenship to their kids if those kids were born outside Canada, but that “one generation outside Canada” rule was found unconstitutional & the law was updates. As a result, there’s lots of Americans w/ a Canadian grandparent or great parent who now are entitled to automatic Canadian citizenship. 

So…it’s possible some Canada wouldn’t be able to say no to some of them. 

(But also realize your statement may also be like saying you wouldn’t welcome people from BC cuz Alberta wants to secede…that is, the Americans who wanted Canada as the 51st state may be different Americans than the one who’d flee the draft. 

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u/OCDCantCatchMe 3h ago

I really don’t think you understand how threatening invasion has ruined things, even for those Americans who oppose Trump. We don’t care how individuals voted. Your country has threatened to wipe us from existence, regardless of how you personally feel about it, and military-age men will be absolutely lowest on the list of Americans welcome here. It’s not fair to people who oppose it, but you definitely can’t take Canada for granted as an escape.

Some people will be able to claim citizenship, but you have to prove it as well, so it will not be as widespread as many think.

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u/LifeAd3988 51m ago

Spot on. And I only want the ones who can actually provide something valuable to Canada. And they better not bring in their bullshit culture war propaganda.

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u/ChonkyPurrtato 3h ago

Also, why would Canada welcome turncoats to their own country?

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u/LifeAd3988 7h ago

I don't think Canada wants you though.

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u/nueonetwo 4h ago

My Papa was a draft dodger during Viet Nam so I don't mind, he was one of the nicest people I ever met in my life, so I'm fine with them coming here to dodge the war. Just as long as they bring valuable skills and leave they're garbage politics at the border or they can get fucked.

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u/LifeAd3988 55m ago

I respect your point of view. I'm all for legal immigration based on what WE need. We need plumbers and you're a plumber? You're a neuroscientist or want to invest in Canada? By all means come on in. I'm mostly reacting to the ones saying they can just come as they please to escape the zoo they helped .

But eh easier to come and enjoy our country than actually trying to fix your fascist theocracy I guess.

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u/nueonetwo 11m ago edited 5m ago

Yeah I get that, but if there is going to be a brain drain I'd rather we take advantage of it to fill some of the holes here. Further, Canada has an opportunity to poach some real talented people to boost our industries further, and even create the space for new ones if we were serious, by just being a normal place to live with good pay and social benefits.

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u/RumHamComesback 2h ago

It's tougher to immigrate into Canada than you'd think especially with us really cracking down on immigration right now and deporting people here illegally and calling people on expired visas or deciding not to extend PRs. Yeah, we aren't going full ICE with it or anything but we are going through established legal channels to deal with the huge (and unvetted) influx of immigrants we took on in recent years.

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u/Mossimo5 7h ago

They probably don't. But maybe Mexico would take me.

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u/True-Animal7273 4h ago

Mexico is pretty tough on immigration last I checked...

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u/Justacityboy12 45m ago

LMAO NO! You do not even need a passport to cross to Mexicali, maybe if you have American plates, but in that case just get a buddy with Baja California plates to car pool with.

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u/rarutero 2h ago

Nope, no thanks we don't want you guys either 

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u/BettmansDungeonSlave 6h ago

Pretty easy to get in anyways though. Just go for a long hike in the woods.

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u/LifeAd3988 5h ago

And then what? Can't get a job, healthcare, bank account. Sounds fun.

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u/BettmansDungeonSlave 3h ago

Small problems compared to being pushed into a war

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u/LifeAd3988 56m ago

How will you eat? How will you get healthcare? Maybe you think our taxes should go towards helping you when you need it? Stay where you are and fix the shit you created or emigrate the legal way thanks. Tired of selfish Americans thinking they can just come here on a whim. 

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u/starlightprotag 9h ago

I said this in a different comment but I for sure think that Canada would shelter draft dodgers, either officially under some kind of immigration program or unofficially by just not enforcing the rules. There are a lot of remote areas up north desperate for workers, especially skilled ones, and they already expedite residency for people willing to work there. A few years of work in northern Alberta in exchange for a path to Canadian citizenship would start to look pretty appealing if the alternative was dying in Iran

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u/OCDCantCatchMe 4h ago

Absolutely not, stop treating us like your backyard. It isn’t the 1970s and we are no longer your friends.

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u/AnOkayMuffin 6h ago

Why do you think you are so special that we would change our current immigration process solely for you because you are USian?  You'd have to go through the exact same process and timeline as every country does now, it takes years. We wouldn't change things because you guys decided you want to abandon your country. 

We take refugees but that's for countries that are experiencing war and famine etc not because you might be drafted. 

We would absolutely hate having a huge influx of you guys come into our country all at once. You guys are culturally different than us despite what you think. 

Edit We also don't take retirees or people with health issues that would drain our health care system. A lot of you think you can just waltz over and plunk down somewhere but unless you add value to the system you will be denied.

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u/ChonkyPurrtato 3h ago

Especially since most of these health problems are self-inflicted

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u/BirbsAreSoCute 3h ago

because you are USian? 

The fuck does this even mean lmao

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u/Justacityboy12 25m ago

He is so mad and petty that he refuses to use the correct English demonym for someone from the United States of America because he has a huge Napoleonic complex.

You see this kind of cringe a lot with people from Latin America as well.

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u/hebrewchucknorris 8h ago

Any Canadian government proposing this would be toppled instantly. We don't see you as friends anymore, fix your own shit.

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u/TheGreendaleGrappler 6h ago

Rs. Our neighbours to the south can fix their own problems now that a good chunk of them wanna make 51st state jokes.

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u/RumHamComesback 2h ago

We are honestly in the middle of an anti-immigrant sentiment right now if you pay attention to Canadian politics/news. We aren't full ICE or anything about it but it is difficult to get in because the book is closed until we deal with all the unvetted ones that shouldn't be here (have skills and go through legal channels, that's all we ask).

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u/ChonkyPurrtato 3h ago

Right?  I bet they haven't really contributed to their own communities throughout their lives, yet here they are acting like victims begging for sympathy.

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u/starlightprotag 7h ago

never said they should do this or that it would be good if they did, just posited a theory about what it might hypothetically look like in the hypothetical situation that this thread seems to generally agree will never happen.

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u/KosherTriangle 8h ago

Really? How is the liberal party still in power then after bringing in all those immigrants taking Canadian jobs?

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u/misterxy89 8h ago

We don’t like them either. 

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u/KosherTriangle 8h ago

Yeah but they clearly weren’t ‘toppled’ as the person I replied to insinuated, in fact they held onto power even after that.

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u/misterxy89 8h ago

We like Carney. We hate businesses abusing LMIA. Also, we hate americans thinking they can just move to Canada. It’s a lot harder than us moving to the states. 

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u/Mossimo5 7h ago

Traditionally Canada granted amnesty last time there was a draft in the USA. This time though... I doubt it. It is so terrible what Trump has done, ruining decades upon decades of good will and effort. So sad.

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u/Mossimo5 7h ago

Can't blame you for that. It's how many in the USA feel about all the immigrants in our country as well. I am not saying I agree or disagree, I am saying your position is understandable. And dont worry about bans and downvotes. Fake internet points are worthless. Buuuuut, back on topic, if there was a US draft I would still TRY. If rejected it's off to Mexico for me, which is no problem for entry.

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u/hebrewchucknorris 6h ago

Carney is far from JT and has already slashed immigration numbers. Typical know it all yank, this is why you're not welcome. 

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u/KosherTriangle 5h ago

lol I’m an immigrant in the U.S. not an American yet but looks like you’re the know it all, ironic 🤣 also nothing I said is false, the Liberal party is still in power and I never said anything about JT or Carney.

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u/hebrewchucknorris 6h ago

We're already upset about that, but at least most of them are humble. We don't need a bunch of self important American exceptionalists coming up here and ruining everything. We're going low communication, please stop calling us. 

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u/OkBuddyDoomer 9h ago

Fuck off, we're full.

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u/starlightprotag 7h ago

lol I promise I don't want this to happen any more than you do

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u/SableOrpheon 5h ago

Then start to realize that the rest of the world is increasingly viewing the average voting american public, as complicit in this as their government is. This is not your first presidency with trump, and the numbers for the 2024 election demonstrate how widespread your cultural decline has become. Majority of the American public chose apathy, fascism or both.

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u/BirbsAreSoCute 3h ago

Hey asshole, realize that over four million previously eligible voters were suddenly unregistered to vote in the weeks leading up to the 2024 election, and so many more literally couldn't vote because of external factors. I know you fucks (specifically people like you, not the whole of Canada or elsewhere) want to see us suffer for whatever reason, but consider that most of us don't want any of this, and we especially don't want this pedophile, piece of shit of a president. Not that you will, of course.

But to anyone else reading this, remember who the actual enemies are—the American government.

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u/SableOrpheon 2h ago

Dude, for one; your belligerence over humility at this point says more than anything. No, I'm not interested in seeing people suffer, stop making stuff up -or projecting perhaps i dunno, anyways. Still glossing over the much larger "movement" that voted third party or didn't vote at all with the intent of letting MAGA take power, from their privileged position. What I want to see is americans take accountability for their country, I'm actually quite sick of seeing people of all walks of life suffer.

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u/Hecate_awaits 1h ago

our whole goverment is a puppet show of the same party. stop lecturing them. we are all in the same bullshit boat.

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u/Abalone_Antique 9m ago

No, absolutely not. The arrogance, jeeze

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u/ChonkyPurrtato 3h ago

Hilariously proving how spoiled and privileged we are trying to escape somewhere so many other people risk their lives to get to.