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[–] simplejack@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My hot take is that, since US hasn’t done mandatory service in decades, a draft wouldn’t work. I think they’d honestly have a hard time getting a lot of the middle class and affluent right to support it.

[–] ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 10 points 1 week ago

The right just spent an entire pandemic arguing against anyone telling them to so much as wash their hands because muh freedoms, like they'll ever accept those same leaders telling them their body needs to be in a country around the world...and also shot full of a dozen more vaccines.

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 3 points 1 week ago

I mean, wouldn't physical activity (and cooperative group based physical activity at that) during one's formative years make one more likely to make a useful soldier, not less?