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In a stunning admission, Leavitt told Bartiromo that mandatory conscription – not seen since the Vietnam War – had not been ruled out by her boss.

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[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

Come on, didn't you hear the language they're using to describe war, like "double tap" 😉? It'll be fun, just like a video game. Except when you die it's permanent.

Come on! Don't be a 😺 be a penguin 🐧

Btw, this is almost definitely an AI rip off of the footprints in the sand poster, right? I know the actual picture of the penguin isn't, but if you gave AI a prompt to use that image and convey blind faith, loyalty, nationalism and Trump as a savior, what do you think it would generate?

Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but knowing how propaganda is supposed to work, I can say it definitely caught some part of my own subconscious, and reminded me of iconic Christian pop culture I was surrounded by growing up. If you're unfamiliar with the poem,

During the 1980 United States presidential campaign, Ronald Reagan used a variant of "Footprints", with himself as the human, as the closing lines in an August speech to evangelical leaders in Dallas, Texas. President Reagan used "Footprints" again in a speech at the annual National Prayer Breakfast on 5 February 1981.

"Stray from the crowd" via conscription into the king's military. Individualism is selfish. Your path has already been decided and laid out for you. So go protect the profits of the wealthy pedophiles destroying America and shitting on the constitution.

Don't think too much about it. This is God's will. It's all in the Bible (if you squint).

You'll just have to trust us.

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[–] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago
[–] DarkGamer@fedia.io 16 points 3 days ago (5 children)

A draft would ensure an entire generation never votes Republican again.

[–] kromem@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Who do you think is going to be drafted? You think the DOGE data grab plus the requests for state voter registration rolls aren't going to be used to filter a draft of the front lines to those they want out of the country?

How do you get US citizens out of the country if you can't legally deport them?

If they've been doing illegal shit the whole time with profiling, do you really think they aren't going to also profile in how they conduct a draft?

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 14 points 3 days ago

The scariest demographic group for Dictators is military age males, which can be corraled and turned into a rebel army. So it's important to gain control of them first, and putting them into the military to spread out across the globe, is a perfect solution.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

“Mothers out there are worried that we’re going to have a draft, that they’re going to see their sons and daughters get involved in this,” said Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo, speaking with Leavitt Sunday. “What do you want to say about the president’s plans for troops on the ground? As we know, it’s been largely an air campaign up until now.”

“It has been, and it will continue to be, and President Trump wisely does not remove options off of the table,” Leavitt said.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

“It has been, and it will continue to be, and President Trump wisely does not remove options off of the table,” Leavitt said.

Newspeak for “We don’t have a clue what the moron will do next, so ‘The lord moves in mysterious ways…’”

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

Fox: "It's not a war!"

Trump: "It's a war."

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

I’m old enough to where if I get called things had to have somehow gotten even more terrible. If it comes to that they can lick my fucking taint. I’m not going to war even if the put a rifle in my mouth.

The admin is fully hallucinating if the think there ain’t a bunch of folks like me that would much rather forget their life than fight for this admin.

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