Would also be legit hilarious.

Generational cohort analysis has no business here.

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

I don’t think Vietnam is views as easy nor was it successful.

Draft the rich. Working class solidarity is fundamental for revolution. Boomers and Zoomers need to co-operate to defeat the Epstein class.

The fuck it is, we were students during 9/11 and watched our peers get fucked up and die in Iraq and Afghanistan for no reason. The conversion of SCOTUS to conservative and the godamn Patriot Act was already in place before most of us could even vote. The only millennials with the wealth to change anything are nepo babies with fascist dreams who never suffered when the economy collapsed, twice.

How about just republicans. If you vote for trump, it automatically signs you up for the draft.

You want to send grandma and grandpa to war? They fought in Korea and Viet Nam, and some of them in the Gulf War. They're sick of war. And, while some of them are MAGA, they are those who voted for "no new wars" and are now pissed at Trump.

Bernie is a boomer and so are many of the people who support and voted for him.

If you want to stop being painted with one brush, be the change you want to see. It's not a generational war, it's a fucking class war.

How about we send the people who support it, and started it--the filthy rich?

Seems the comment you replied to was a joke, friend

No doubt. In response to such a joke, boomers would take credit for a time when the military was successful. My reply is an attempt to preemptively take the wind out of their sails.

Millenials don't run anything. The senate is still dominated by Boomers and the Reps are dominated by Boomers and Gen X. Boomers have been holding on to jobs so long that by time they die it will be Zoomers time to step up.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/01/16/age-and-generation-in-the-119th-congress-somewhat-younger-with-fewer-boomers-and-more-gen-xers/

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

Vietnam war medals are participation trophies.

What do you mean? Vietnam was successful at destroying free press so no conflict after it would ever show the people the true horrors of war.

Did it work??

Famous millennial, senile and bloated trump.

Dude, I have trouble operating a cell phone.

If you want to be punished I can connect you with some people.

Can you imagine how horrific it would be for the sergeants to wrangle a squad or platoon of boomers and actually get anything accomplished?

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.

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.

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. Get the ones that couldn't afford to avoid it into the military. Problem solved.

Not enough? Have a domestic war on "drugs", selectively target blacks and Latinos, and give them free housing in a state or federal prison.

Let them show us how "lift yourself up by your bootstraps" work

if they would start drafting the rich, wars would suddenly stop and there would be world peace.

There are many, many millions more of us than there are of them. If we can organize, we can make it happen.

Definitely. Generational divide is another tool of capital to reduce solidarity of the working class.

puts blunt down coz shit just got too real

This is exactly the time, send them off to die for the bullshit they voted for.

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

I mean, with modern drone armies, there's less and less need to restrict the draft to they young...

Soldiers would suddenly make tax free millions while not actually going to warzones. They'd still rape children, like real soldiers

It's just like their videogames on the AARP website.

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.

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, Democrat, 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. (Also, no one exempt from the draft, don't look at age, sex, wealth etc. random selection off of everyone). If your 76 year old grandma gets called to go, she goes. Overweight? You'll probably die in boot camp.

It would probably end all wars ever from starting involving our country ever again, lol

Bernie isn't a boomer. He's actually so old he's in the silent generation that was before the boomers. 1941. Basically he was born before WW2 ended, so no one came back and had all the wreckless sex starting the baby boom yet

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…

You skipped Gen X. Typical.

Gen X owes you nothing

And they all seem to know so goddamn much, I’m sure they’d be really effective on the battlefield.

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. In response to all that, the baby boomers... elected him to a second term. 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.

Slacker.

It would also solve the global birth rates declining, just saying...

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.

Complaining about age discrimination? OKAY

welcome to the US Army, private.

Old Man's War by John Scalzi

The Old Bastards have proven the "need" did not exist during World War II. Doubt it existed at any point after that.

Silly child, we send the young and poor to die. Welcome to Humanity.