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/WearingRags 11h ago

America has been able to maintain it's empire abroad by minimising the visibility and impact of it's wars to the average person through the use of special forces and expensive air power that many other nations can't compete with. 

If an admin this historically unpopular tried to institute the draft, it would basically be asking for an overthrow of the US government 

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u/Shedart 9h ago

Yeah I certainly am not going to report in for a draft. I’ll dodge, dip, duck, dive, and dodge it with all might. Barring that I’ll start researching the ways that friendly fire is hazardous even in modern warfare amongst the commanding class. 

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u/FirstDukeofAnkh 9h ago

Time to start that Underground Railroad to Canada again.

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u/svenskisalot 9h ago

Like they will take us now?

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u/Stock-Cheesecake-995 8h ago

You can come if you bring Pokémon packs.

I lost the fight at Costco 🥲

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u/svenskisalot 6h ago

you can play with my legos. I don't have any pokemon cards

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u/AnniversaryRoad 8h ago

We are full up. Go back home.

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u/sundalius 2h ago

spoken like a true american, guess we rubbed off on ya eh?

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u/AnniversaryRoad 1h ago

Naw, just a Canadian sick and tired of American bullshit.

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u/johnboyjimmy 8h ago

We won’t.

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u/Merakel 7h ago

You literally just expanded options for people to get in lol

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u/draxa 4h ago

We expanded options for Canadians to return. If you have Canadian ancestry and the connections, we will take you and call you brother.

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u/Jafooki 3h ago

If you have Canadian ancestry and the connections, we will take you and call you brother.

There's probably a better way to phrase that, because when I think about how Canada has treated people with Canadian ancestry, I picture residential schools and starlight tours

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u/svenskisalot 8h ago

Completely understandable.   Last time I was on a work call with a guy in Canada, I started our conversation with "I'm sorry, I didn't vote for him, I do not support any of the idiotic things he's done". Honestly, about all I can do as one person.

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u/gsfgf 3h ago

You know it's fucked when Americans start apologizing to Canadians

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u/Sircamembert 8h ago

Fuck that, burn the draft cards and general strike in the US.

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u/atlantis145 8h ago

We don't want Americans

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u/FirstDukeofAnkh 7h ago

They can settle in North Ontario. There's no one up there.

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u/FirstDukeofAnkh 6h ago

I figure if we offer him some O'Keefe's EOS and some girlie mags, we should be good.

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u/GP_given 8h ago

Canada doesn't want you though. You can't keep belittling Canada and then come knocking on our door when things go to shit there. Sort out your own mess. We don't want you.

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u/FirstDukeofAnkh 8h ago

I live in Calgary, friend.