| Trotskilicious |
12-24-2006 10:00 PM |
You know what's interesting is the relationship between the draft and the anti-war movement. It seems that unless there is a possibilty that any young person could go at any moment, no one really seems to care about protesting in huge numbers and doing counter-cultural things. Maybe the reinstatement of the draft would spark a new era of creativity and inspiration like it did in the 60s. Or maybe we'd just run amok and loot Best Buy.
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Originally Posted by Corganist
I just think a lot of people would be more apt to fight for their right to stay lazy than they would be to let themselves get drafted and let the military shape them up into useful citizens
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How dumb is this comment? There's the assumption that the military makes everyone useful (it doesn't: you get out what you put in, like college), there is the assumtion that a particular generation is lazier than the rest (I don't even know how you quantify that), and then there is the hilarious fact that Corganist isn't lining up at the recruitment centers to go out and fight for his rights in Iraq. I mean, really, dude, can it.
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Originally Posted by Corganist
I'm not saying that I think the military would actually shape people up.
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That's funny because:
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Originally Posted by Corganist
the military [would] shape them up into useful citizens
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That's exactly what you said! I mean who the fuck are you, Republican John Kerry? You backed away from the original statment immediately.
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Originally Posted by Corganist
It seems that the people who crow loudest about how people need to be patriots and die in some senseless war, are the same ones who sit back on their asses and do nothing at all.
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The fact that you have to clarify this should go a long way explaining why your original comment was kind of confused to begin with.
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