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    10 hours ago

    Ohhhh shit, ok, i don’t believe we’ve done that since before the revolutionary war

    … doesn’t really seem like a wise way to get loyal soldiers, but perhaps we’re due for another revolution

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      Drafted soldiers were fragging their officers in Vietnam. Better the unit potentially catch a charge back home than everyone get torture-killed in VC pit traps. I imagine you’d see much of the same with a modern conscript army and in fact I’m pretty sure the laundry fires and plumbing failures in the US Navy were just such events.

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        Yeah, it’s been morally justifiable for an extremely long time, but the masses are only now beginning to see through the wool.

        I think the oligarchs may have overplayed their hand.