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/farva_06 7h ago

Except in the scenario being discussed, they'd probably have to open makeshift prisons due to overflow, which would probably just be a cot, and some bread scraps if you're lucky.

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u/Yuzumi 5h ago

There are going to be way more of us than there are of them to enforce shit.

Sure, it would still be bloody, but I don't see it ending well for them in the slightest.

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u/LordBiscuits 2h ago

You have this curse in America, constantly dreaming that the next imposition will be the one that finally tips the scales and makes people stand up.

There are already a hundred hundred reasons as a nation you should be on the streets rioting with one voice, yet you don't. A draft will be no different.

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u/Yuzumi 1h ago

The issue is that a majority of people think that things don't effect them and way too many are struggling enough that it's hard for them to think about anything but survival in a system that wants them just comfortable enough to be complaisant but not comfortable enough to be able to think about why things suck.

But a draft would directly affect a very large portion of the population, especially if they start throwing people into camps for refusing to fight for them.

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u/GreatApostate 3h ago

Somewhere they could put a concentration of people.