• @[email protected]
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    281 year ago

    Millennial here. Can confirm, I’ll be staying home and doing my own thing. One live isn’t worth more then another and I’m not going to war. If you’re going to put me in jail because I refuse, then maybe I need to find a different country to live in.

    • Kusuriya
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      On the very off chance they restarted the draft, there are tons of reasons the Pentagon would fight conscription, make sure you know asylum procedures or have the stuff ready to immigrate. Run don’t try to just ignore the draft.

      They, the last time they did the draft, didn’t just throw normies into jail, they grabbed them then kicked them over to the military and then if you ran away and got brought back after being AWOL they just deployed you and let happen what happened, regulars frequently discovered that these sorts had… uhh… “accidents” at a more frequent rate.

      • @[email protected]
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        Well in times of desperation they probably don’t care. If it’s real bad it’s not “can you hold a gun?” it’s “can you take a bullet?”

        Anyway, just do a Ted Nugent. Take as many drugs as you can and shit yourself.

    • @[email protected]
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      1 year ago

      If you run against a war with Russia then the war will catch you eventually. Are you planning to live the rest of your days in an obscure South American nation?

      • Pons_Aelius
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        111 year ago

        As opposed to to your life ending in a few short months on a battlefield?

        Sure. Why not.

        It doesn’t have to be Sth America. US men dodging the draft were given political asylum in Canada or Sweden during the Vietnam war and an estimated 60-100,000 fled the US.

        So it is actually:

        Decades in another modern western nation or weeks/months on a battle field?

        Easy choice.

        • @[email protected]
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          31 year ago

          I asked it in question form because I was legitimately curious. Where do you plan to go while the world you leave behind devolves into an authoritarian hell? What other “modern western nation” would be left if Russia and/or China expands all the way across Europe as well as onto US Shores?

          You don’t have a second life to flee to if the west fails to defend itself.

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              I asked a legitimate question. I want to rationalize running away against a threat like that, I would never sell my soul to the military complex for anything other than necessity, but it absolutely doesn’t make sense other than for selfish shortsighted cowardice.

              • Herbal Gamer
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                51 year ago

                Nah fuck ya’ll Ima sign up if we have an enemy worth fighting for the first time in my life.

                Yet you say things like this.

                • @[email protected]
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                  11 year ago

                  Yes, because as I explained, running away against a threat like that doesn’t make any sense. Did the sentence structure confuse you?

    • volvoxvsmarla
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      11 year ago

      then maybe I need to find a different country to live in

      I was born and raised in Germany and never changed my foreign citizenship, it was always on the bucket list. My husband immigrated in 2019, and since 2022 I am freaking out at the thought that we would change citizenship. Being a foreign citizen sucks sometimes, but in case of war it is extremely beneficial. Avoid drafting at home, avoid drafting where you live.

      So, moving in case of a war would be more than beneficial, you just got to do it early on, before they close borders. We had friends dropping everything and packing just their cat and passports the same night Russia attacked Ukraine.