• CyborgMarx [any, any]@hexbear.net
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    21 days ago

    If there’s one thing I’m not remotely doomer about, it’s the draft, it is impossible for the United States to implement a sucessful draft, it’s not possible even if there was a popular war

    That doesn’t mean they can’t try and frankly part of me hopes they do; it would become one of the greatest generators of mass revolutionary energy in American history and simultaneously collapse multiple institutions within the military and security apparatus

    Barrack riots, millions strong student protests, fugitive networks springing up everywhere, labor shortages, shootouts, mass flight, generational mass radicalization

    It would be the single biggest mistake the capitalist class ever made; it would make imperialism real for the average American

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      21 days ago

      it would become one of the greatest generators of mass revolutionary energy in American history and simultaneously collapse multiple institutions within the military and security apparatus

      This is why no other president after Vietbam war has been stupid enough to do it. Trump could be though, and like you I hope he does.

    • bunnossin [she/her, it/its]@hexbear.net
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      Barrack riots, millions strong student protests, fugitive networks springing up everywhere, labor shortages, shootouts, mass flight, generational mass radicalization

      Part of me is timmy-pray and part of me has absolutely no faith in the American public to ever get off their asses and do anything.