So this non-serving ass clown wants OTHER people to sign up for a draft to protect his “unparalleled freedoms and opportunities” while he sits back and enjoys them. Says our freedoms are the envy of the world. My brother, have you ever even left the country? Because nothing says “unparalleled freedom” like going bankrupt from a hospital visit, watching your kids do active shooter drills, and needing a draft to staff a military that already has the biggest budget on the planet. But sure, the whole world is just green with envy. Absolutely seething. They’re over there with their universal healthcare and paid parental leave just WISHING they could be us.
dude’s apex was the ‘making copies’ guy on SNL. one bit.
all downhill from there. he’s a no-service shitbag who wants to say other people’s kids should be conscripted.
all of this ignores the enormous harm a draft would do to our military - because I guarantee you the rich still won’t serve, they’ll all have bone spurs and asthma that fixes itself after a decade. and the poor will have to serve instead.
meanwhile, today, we have one of the best militaries in the world because the people serving genuinely want to be there - either for the service itself or benefits after - and all of this ignores the giant elephant in the room: conscription’s great for meat waves.
anything requiring skill gets fucked. small unit tactics take ages to learn. logistical operations take longer. and you’re not going to get conscripts in the backbone combat service and support units because that shit takes even longer to teach that infantry stuff. two year hitch? hell that’s just barely enough time to get through basic, AIT and airborne school. that’s when you’re qualified to no longer be a danger to your fellow servicepeople.
I don’t want to serve with conscripted people who are gonna get high/fucked up and get us all murdered. we saw what happened in vietnam, no thanks.