▲ 1979 ▼ Schools in America apparently have their own army recruiter (lemmy.world) submitted 2 years ago by robocall@lemmy.world to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world 453 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] jj4211@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (2 children) Well, depends. Note that US military history picks me from trusting them in this fashion, but if mandatory military service were: -severely limited term -purely domestic (prepare for defense from active attacks, relief, and rescue) -not used in any vaguely law enforcement capacity. Then I could see that as possibly reasonable. Of course I'd be skeptical that a nation would display that sort of restraint, but just saying I could imagine a hypothetical that included that permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [+] unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent [–] Miaou@jlai.lu 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child) I think you just described most military services actually (from democratic nations at least) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TheControlled@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago HA! Sure, like countries that are protected by the US military? Like countries insulated on all sides by close allies? C'mon. Also, America is the superpower. Nobody comes close to their wealth and power and military technology, and superpowers don't become or stay superpowers by being totally chill and getting cats out of trees. I would fucking love that alt-universe though. Sadly, it's power by force or show-of-force. USA kinda straddles the line of both. But so does France, India, and Finland, to name a few. permalink fedilink source parent [–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 3 points 2 years ago Have you seen the Nordics? They manage both pretty well. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (2 children) Well, depends. Note that US military history picks me from trusting them in this fashion, but if mandatory military service were: -severely limited term -purely domestic (prepare for defense from active attacks, relief, and rescue) -not used in any vaguely law enforcement capacity. Then I could see that as possibly reasonable. Of course I'd be skeptical that a nation would display that sort of restraint, but just saying I could imagine a hypothetical that included that permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [+] unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent [–] Miaou@jlai.lu 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child) I think you just described most military services actually (from democratic nations at least) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TheControlled@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago HA! Sure, like countries that are protected by the US military? Like countries insulated on all sides by close allies? C'mon. Also, America is the superpower. Nobody comes close to their wealth and power and military technology, and superpowers don't become or stay superpowers by being totally chill and getting cats out of trees. I would fucking love that alt-universe though. Sadly, it's power by force or show-of-force. USA kinda straddles the line of both. But so does France, India, and Finland, to name a few. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Miaou@jlai.lu 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child) I think you just described most military services actually (from democratic nations at least) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TheControlled@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago HA! Sure, like countries that are protected by the US military? Like countries insulated on all sides by close allies? C'mon. Also, America is the superpower. Nobody comes close to their wealth and power and military technology, and superpowers don't become or stay superpowers by being totally chill and getting cats out of trees. I would fucking love that alt-universe though. Sadly, it's power by force or show-of-force. USA kinda straddles the line of both. But so does France, India, and Finland, to name a few. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TheControlled@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago HA! Sure, like countries that are protected by the US military? Like countries insulated on all sides by close allies? C'mon. Also, America is the superpower. Nobody comes close to their wealth and power and military technology, and superpowers don't become or stay superpowers by being totally chill and getting cats out of trees. I would fucking love that alt-universe though. Sadly, it's power by force or show-of-force. USA kinda straddles the line of both. But so does France, India, and Finland, to name a few. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 3 points 2 years ago Have you seen the Nordics? They manage both pretty well. permalink fedilink source parent