Draft the rich. Working class solidarity is fundamental for revolution. Boomers and Zoomers need to co-operate to defeat the Epstein class.
A modest proposal
Submitted 2 months ago by MTZ@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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bearboiblake@pawb.social 2 months ago
pulsey@feddit.org 2 months ago
if they would start drafting the rich, wars would suddenly stop and there would be world peace.
bearboiblake@pawb.social 2 months ago
There are many, many millions more of us than there are of them. If we can organize, we can make it happen.
FatVegan@leminal.space 2 months ago
Soldiers would suddenly make tax free millions while not actually going to warzones. They’d still rape children, like real soldiers
the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This is exactly the time, send them off to die for the bullshit they voted for.
gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I confess to tapping the speaker icon in the corner. I must be punished.
Tja@programming.dev 2 months ago
Did it work??
gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Shut up. 😡
deacon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If you want to be punished I can connect you with some people.
ygurin@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It would also solve the global birth rates declining, just saying…
MTZ@lemmy.world 2 months ago
5 problems at once. 😁
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
How about just republicans. If you vote for trump, it automatically signs you up for the draft.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Nah, to partisan. Id agree with, if your representative doesn’t vote in the war time resolution to not go to war, then you are added to the draft list. Doesn’t matter if you are a Republican, Democrats, independent, or didn’t vote. It would make the representative actually have to represent their constituents, and face the wrath of their constituents if they go against them.
uberdroog@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Send ICE
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You want to send grandma and grandpa to war?
How about we send the people who support it, and started it, and the filthy rich?
shane@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Definitely. Generational divide is another tool of capital to reduce solidarity of the working class.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 2 months ago
Discrete generations aren’t even a real thing. The idea that 2 people born in consecutive years are in different generations is absurd. They have more in common than 2 people born at the opposite ends of a generation label.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Bernie isn’t a boomer. He’s actually so old he’s in the silent generation that was before the boomers.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Would also be legit hilarious.
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Complaining about age discrimination? OKAY
welcome to the US Army
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Dude why do you think they had Vietnam?
Wasn’t enough houses, colleges, and jobs for all of the boomers that were coming of age.
Cull the herd a bit. Problem solved.
BigBrainBrett2517@lemmy.world 2 months ago
puts blunt down coz shit just got too real
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Marijuana is not a drug. I used to suck dick for coke. Now that's an addiction. You ever suck some dick for marijuana?
tempest@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Nah Vietnam was because there cold war was too cold and that’s not good for military industrial complex. 60k people is not really enough to make a huge difference in housing.
Agrivar@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I ran into an elderly man at the grocery store this weekend, proudly wearing a crisp new “Trump 2028” baseball cap. Make his dumb ass a front-lines infantryman.
Nomorereddit@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Silly child, we send the young and poor to die. Welcome to Humanity.
WoodScientist@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I mean, with modern drone armies, there’s less and less need to restrict the draft to they young…
DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The Old Bastard have proven the “need” did not exist during World War II. Doubt it existed at any point after that.
merc@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Can you imagine how horrific it would be for the sergeants to wrangle a squad or platoon of boomers and actually get anything accomplished?
Fishnoodle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I mean modern weapons are so easy to use that even the elderly can be effective with them. I agree, let’s draft them. More jobs, more houses for real Americans
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Dude, I have trouble operating a cell phone.
Rooster326@programming.dev 2 months ago
It’s just like their videogames on the AARP website.
Source: My grandma is a daily top scorer (they reset at midnight every night LMAO)
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Except this is a War by, of, and for Millennials
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Generational cohort analysis has no business here.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Boomers did this
Applause
Wait, it looks like Millennials/GenX
“Hey hey! Enough of this generation blaming!”
:-/
Tja@programming.dev 2 months ago
Famous millennial, senile and bloated trump.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sort of the joke. “Trump’s brain dead! He’s being led around by the nose!”
“Okay, who is leading him around”
glances at the Millennial/GenX cabinet “Trump is playing 11D chess!”
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 month ago
they’re gung ho until they have to sleep in a tent
Redvenom@retrolemmy.com 2 months ago
Let them show us how “lift yourself up by your bootstraps” work
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
There is a compelling argument to partially revert to the days of warrior kings. Every government who wants war has to be conscripted to fight on the front lines.
totally_human_emdash_user@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Is this community no longer going to be about posting shitposts? Because if I want political posts then I can get that from the many politics communities that already exist, or by reading newspapers.
NotSteve_@piefed.ca 2 months ago
Seriously, I love the actual shitposts posted here but most of the time it feels like I’ve accidentally subscribed to USA politics or something
Digit@lemmy.wtf 1 month ago
Well if it’s working for the Ukraine. …
modestmeme@lemmy.world 2 months ago
lol old people hate. Because blaming any other group for the world’s problems is very bad…. It’s as if the boomer generation was obligated to create utopia; not any generation previous or since. Just them. And when the last of them have died off, the youngins will scapegoat whoever is old in that time. So Millennials, you might want to get your excuses ready; you didn’t leave the world a better place for them…
Turret3857@infosec.pub 2 months ago
The baby boomer generation holds 51.1% of the total populations wealth. They watched Regan rise to power, strip new deal legislation, neuter unions, kill millions with the AIDS crisis, and funnel cocaine into minority neighborhoods. You all have had a literal lifetime to take that wealth and fight for the future generations to have a better life. Instead of doing that, the vocal majority told ALL OF US (Gen X, Gen Y, Millenials, Gen Z and now Gen Alpha) that we are entitled little shits who are lazy, and need to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps.
If you want the old people hate to stop, maybe look at your peers and get them to realize the mess that has been made fell largely on your shoulders to clean up, and you did nothing.
Maybe you’ve spent your whole life protesting and promoting progressive candidates. I dont know you. I only know the statistics and history about the generations. If you have been fighting for progress your whole life, thats great and I’m happy you did that. but understand when people say things like the OP, it isnt directed at those who tried to make a positive change, it’s directed at the majority who sat around and let fascism happen.
modestmeme@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’ve heard stats presented that way all my life, usually in terms of “immigrants”, “Jews”, “Catholics” , etc. You want to look up some stats? Look at voter turnout amongst young people. Or the population of the United States vs available land, 1960’s to present. Or look up post war economic booms and how they affect things.
Here we are, with decades of low voter turnout, a waning economy that is completely gamed not by an age group but by the wealthy, and too many people to allow the old ways of “growth” to work anymore.
And somehow amidst that we’ve decided that part of our very identity is the range of years in which we were born. Who decided what a boomer or millennial or gen X/Z/Alpha is? Was it a consensus amongst social scientists? Or was it something more useful for marketing strategy?
I reject your comment outright. Everything you said was perpetuated (or not) by the entirety of people living in that/this time. We are all part of this world and othering a group of people, i.e. scapegoating others does jackshit for solving our problems.
lumettaria@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
I’m cackling for this one folks
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Old Man’s War by John Scalzi
altphoto@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Thanks to Amazon there should be a good 40,000 houses available pretty soon.
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
And they all seem to know so goddamn much, I’m sure they’d be really effective on the battlefield.
FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I dont see the issue, obviously they’ll just pull themselves up by their bootstraps and win the war, it was easy back in their day so it’ll be easy for them now. Kids today are just lazy
blitzen@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I don’t think Vietnam is views as easy nor was it successful.
nonius@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Seems the comment you replied to was a joke, friend
waterSticksToMyBalls@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Vietnam war medals are participation trophies.