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Aloc
01/22/23 9:49:33 PM
#1:


Why is that?

I think we should raise the military minimum age to 21.

Not 18.
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XxKrazyChaosxX
01/22/23 9:50:41 PM
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Sir, this is a Wendy's.

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Cheater87
01/22/23 9:51:09 PM
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People aren't falling for their propaganda as much?

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KobeSystem
01/22/23 9:51:30 PM
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Make all the soldiers robots and recruit GAMERS

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CableZL
01/22/23 9:54:36 PM
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Decades of military veterans being treated like shit
Decades of people who get sent to war getting stabbed in the back when they get home with all sorts of injuries, mystery illnesses, mental issues, etc.


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Antifar
01/22/23 9:56:40 PM
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People have access to the internet

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Solar_Crimson
01/22/23 9:56:45 PM
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CableZL posted...
Decades of military veterans being treated like shit
Decades of people who get sent to war getting stabbed in the back when they get home with all sorts of injuries, mystery illnesses, mental issues, etc.
[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

These.

People are starting to realize that there's no point in going off to fight in a war and potentially die to fill the pockets of some fatcat who can't be arsed to do it themselves, and then they'll be swept under the rug when they get back.

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Lonestar2000
01/22/23 9:59:49 PM
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We aren't in any wars, why do we need such a giant military?

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VampireCoyote
01/22/23 10:03:20 PM
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who the heck wants to be part of such a corrupt system

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Flauros
01/22/23 10:03:26 PM
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Time to cut back on boots on the ground and octuple down on drones patrolling the skies and streets. Maybe get some Peace Walker type bots out there.

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ThyIlls
01/22/23 10:08:26 PM
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Only a serial killer looking to commit some state-sanctioned murder would join the military in this day and age. We have no business in any other country on Earth, save for SK and Japan.
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FigureOfSpeech
01/22/23 10:13:27 PM
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not surprised. The advertising seems to be full on these days.

Just like religion. I see random-ass ads I don't even understand and at the end they're like "he gets US" with "US" referring to "JESUS" like whatever nonsensical bollocks I just watched was some Christianity commercial, which it literally was... but the message made no fucking sense and I don't get what the point of it was but I don't trust it because it's religious propaganda so it's auto-dismissed as far as I'm concerned. I know religion is declining, but this desperate tomfoolery is straight up annoying.
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billcom6
01/22/23 10:13:57 PM
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We better increase their budget then.

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NeonTentacles
01/22/23 10:19:35 PM
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Hope yall ready for a draft! What's gonna be your guys' excuse for being disqualified from it? >_>

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ThyIlls
01/22/23 10:20:54 PM
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NeonTentacles posted...
Hope yall ready for a draft! What's gonna be your guys' excuse for being disqualified from it? >_>

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dummy420
01/22/23 10:26:44 PM
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Meanwhile they are going hard against the ones they retained because they retained to many when covid hit.


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Kim_Seong-a
01/22/23 10:26:58 PM
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NeonTentacles posted...
Hope yall ready for a draft! What's gonna be your guys' excuse for being disqualified from it? >_>

Pretty sure most of CE has aged out of the draft range by now lol

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Glob
01/22/23 10:43:08 PM
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NeonTentacles posted...
Hope yall ready for a draft! What's gonna be your guys' excuse for being disqualified from it? >_>

Im British.
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NeonTentacles
01/22/23 10:56:42 PM
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Kim_Seong-a posted...
Pretty sure most of CE has aged out of the draft range by now lol
The draft range is whatever they want to make it

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NeroxDante
01/22/23 10:57:20 PM
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Thank god I did my time already
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Zanglerfish
01/22/23 10:58:47 PM
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Cheater87 posted...
People aren't falling for their propaganda as much?

People have literally complained that making college affordable makes it harder to get military recruits.

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MrResetti
01/22/23 10:58:57 PM
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The bonus is pretty good nowadays honestly

Still wouldn't take it though

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_____Cait
01/22/23 10:59:55 PM
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People are more educated now

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Imit8m3
01/22/23 11:00:03 PM
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CableZL posted...
Decades of military veterans being treated like shit
Decades of people who get sent to war getting stabbed in the back when they get home with all sorts of injuries, mystery illnesses, mental issues, etc.
As a veteran, this^

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FortuneCookie
01/22/23 11:03:54 PM
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We spent two decades fighting in countries that were not directly responsible for 9/11 before Trump surrendered. Why anyone would enlist at all is beyond me.

I admire bravery and dedication to one's nation. But there's no point to put your life on the line for a government that is anything but loyal to you. War is treated like a film franchise. When business is good, it continues on well past what should be its natural stopping point. When business is bad, we pack up and go home. The war should have ended with the death of Bin Ladin. If we were really trying to bring democracy to Afghanistan, we should still be there now chipping away at it. That isn't why we stayed. We stayed so that suits could profit from the war. Nobody should be dying to line another person's pockets.
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MabusIncarnate
01/22/23 11:07:53 PM
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Something i've brought up before that I don't see mentioned much. A lot of the conservatives/Republicans are the "patriots" that live and breathe murica. Most reside in the South of the USA. The Southern USA has the highest obesity rates in the nation, over 30% are obese. Not overweight, obese, damn near a third of them.

Military doesn't take fat kids, you need to meet a weight parameter to join, along with a taping (not sure anymore) around your waist. A lot of these obese kids become obese adults, and cannot join because they are too large. So they cosplay as Army boys on the weekends in their 4XL BDUs and intimidate voters instead.

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Orestes417
01/22/23 11:10:08 PM
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I can't imagine why young folks wouldn't want to go be shot at in the middle of nowhere for goals not even the commanding officers are sure of.

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Jx1010
01/22/23 11:11:32 PM
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Why are they struggling?

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ssj3vegeta
01/22/23 11:50:28 PM
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what about all dem magas joining

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R_Jackal
01/22/23 11:52:41 PM
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I mean, fighting for your country where everyone is scathingly bitter to anyone outside an echo chamber, prices go up wages stay the same or go down, everything is in fuckin' disrepair, and the people they want to recruit are constantly told how problematic they are on the internet doesn't sound too appealing.

Plus they can go and make ten times the money workin at some app that's going to be sold off and shuttered in 6 months.
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MrCokeacola
01/23/23 12:21:04 AM
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It's America's job to police the world. I say the Yanks should bring in conscription to solve the problem.

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Nirvanas_Nox
01/23/23 12:22:53 AM
#36:


KobeSystem posted...
Make all the soldiers robots and recruit GAMERS

They tried that before. It didn't work

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Smackems
01/23/23 12:24:49 AM
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They'll institute a draft in no time if it drops too much. Gotta line those pockets somehow

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Nirvanas_Nox
01/23/23 12:27:21 AM
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Glad im legally considered blind without glass. They won't take me even with a draft.

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Uta
01/23/23 12:46:20 AM
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NeonTentacles posted...
Hope yall ready for a draft! What's gonna be your guys' excuse for being disqualified from it? >_>
Already 80% disabled. They couldn't take me back if they wanted to.

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kage_53
01/23/23 12:52:03 AM
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Most people arent qualified because they are overweight.
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RchHomieQuanChi
01/23/23 12:53:20 AM
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Because younger generations realize a) veterans are treated like shit in this country and b) this country isn't worth fighting for

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Nirvanas_Nox
01/23/23 3:28:44 AM
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RchHomieQuanChi posted...
Because younger generations realize a) veterans are treated like shit in this country and b) this country isn't worth fighting for

This too. Also while people like to think kids these days are stupid (some are don't get me wrong) but they aren't. They aren't gonna full for the bs the military is pushing.

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SapphireOfChaos
01/23/23 3:37:50 AM
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Imit8m3 posted...
CableZL posted...

Decades of military veterans being treated like shit
Decades of people who get sent to war getting stabbed in the back when they get home with all sorts of injuries, mystery illnesses, mental issues, etc.

As a veteran, this^


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KStateKing17
01/23/23 3:50:15 AM
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NeonTentacles posted...
Hope yall ready for a draft! What's gonna be your guys' excuse for being disqualified from it? >_>
I'm old and fat

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TerraSeeker
01/23/23 3:51:33 AM
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I wouldn't mind joining for the most part, but there are some things that have always kept me. Like you have to have almost no hair.

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BaphometFlux
01/23/23 4:04:44 AM
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Military culture sucks and most higher ups are shitty leaders who cover up for other shitty leaders, but I don't regret joining the military , still one of the best decision I ever made in my life :P

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Tom_Joad
01/23/23 4:04:57 AM
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It doesn't help that Congress got rid of the 50% retirement pay system in the mid-2010s.

Every time they get rid of that system, the military suffers recruitment problems. It happened in the early '90s as welland it didn't work out, so much so, that they had to bring the 50% retirement pay back.


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Hoodroar
01/23/23 4:17:32 AM
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America and society are increasingly less worth fighting for.

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MrCokeacola
01/23/23 4:17:39 AM
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Sure a lot of yanks with excuses in here. How well did those excuses work for the Russian men who got conscripted?

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Hoodroar
01/23/23 4:19:14 AM
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MrCokeacola posted...
Sure a lot of yanks with excuses in here. How well did those excuses work for the Russian men who got conscripted?

Russia doesn't have a 2nd amendment.

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