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Rob Schneider Says the U.S. ‘Must Restore the Military Draft’ Amid Iran War: ‘These Freedoms That We Cherish Do Not Come Without Cost’ (variety.com)

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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.

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

This is only the first time I've seen someone call for a draft, but I've known all along that a Draft is coming. Trump and his Wormtongue Stephen "PeeWee Himmler" Miller can't wait to send millions to die, and drafting an entire generation of young potential troublemakers solves a big problem as well.

For context, we lost 58K in Vietnam over about 12 years, and we lost over 4K in Afghanistan. Russia has lost over 1.2 MILLION in 4 years in Ukraine. Trump is going to want to COMPETE will those Russian numbers.

Trump is a profoundly mentally ill human, literally raised by sociopaths to be a sociopath, and he hit it out of the park, blowing right past sociopath, and into Psychopath territory. He will see all those war casualties as people who sacrificed their lives for him. He will brag to his Sociopathic Oligarch buddies around dinner at Maralago about how many have died for him. He will brag how more Americans have died for him, than Russians died for Putin. That's how he will keep score.

I remember when the Soviet Union wouldn't let their people travel outside the country, and I wondered why not. If they want to leave, let them leave. But now I understand. If Trump launches a draft, a LOT of young people are going to want to leave America, and their needed to run up Trump's score. So they won't allow people to travel outside the country anymore, unless they're, y'know, wealthy. Their kids won't be going to war to die for a point on Trump's scoreboard.

More Freedoms to be lost in the name of Freedom. Freedom isn't free, and sometimes you have to surrender your freedom to stay free. There's some MAGA logic for you.

I have a beautiful, intelligent, funny, talented son who is smack in the middle of draft age, and he is all I care about in the world. He is NEVER going to die in a Trump War. If ANYTHING were to happen to him, I would have nothing left to lose, and I would become a very dangerous person.

A Draft is one of those Red Lines that MAGA better not cross, or it's instant Civil War. Suspending Elections, and a Third Term are two others.

MAGA can't have our children.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

I hate the claim that freedom isn't free so much because it's true and always used poorly. The cost of freedom is being an educated voter, it's jury duty, it's accepting crime that could have been prevented by giving the government more power, it's resisting demagogues and fascists who tell you easy answers at the cost of neighbors. Freedom isn't free, but here in America the military hasn't fought for American freedom since the 19th century and we had to be dragged kicking and screaming into fighting for European freedom 90 years ago.