Dr. M.A. Davis: there's always the Paul Douglas approach - but note that Douglas (who became a fighting Marine at the age of 50 to go fight in WW2) did it himself! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Do...

Love when I open Instagram, and the first story is a leftist moot reposting anti-draft anarchism tweets ???

IG has basically become unusable in that I am now constantly confronted with the dumbest and most aggressive politics posting.

It's funky for me bc only stories are this, the craziest leftist moots don't actually post anything, just make stories

Being against the draft is not that fringe a belief, unless I’m missing context here?

I'm not pro-draft! It's just a really random thing to happen upon and then was being argued in the most cursed "individuals don't have obligations to societies they live in!" way

one of those moments where i think about @dov.bsky.social saying "only an american would think like this"

no to be fair this is something i almost understand

you see i actually swerve hard pacifist on drafting people in peacetime simply because that's something that my country actually tried to do to me

idk, in light of recent events I think the world would be better if you'd had military training.

i don't exactly disagree but i also kind of see this as a don't tread on me policy issue

you're more American than you let on.

I'm also just objectively more of a wartime propaganda poet than a GI

that is not something to be proud of.

just being realistic

I am not exactly completely physically useless but I am such a parcel of mental illnesses and find physical activity so unenjoyable that I would not be any good for them as anything other than cannon fodder. The military needs the tough and the brainy in the computers way, not the humanities person.

Plainly, I am bad at numbers, passable at computers and terrible at physical exertion. So wartime poet. Or military command point clerical assistant.

Oh, and my hand-eye coordination sucks, my reaction speed below average, and I found trying to learn how to drive unbelievably stressful to the point that I simply decided I will not do it.

I just finished rewatching The Pacific, which was based on Eugene Sledge and Robert Leckie's memoirs, two super nerdy writer types. I am unconvinced.

Sledge enlisted in a military college. He was literally trained to be an officer. Completely different situation from what a draftee's life would look like

there's always the Paul Douglas approach - but note that Douglas (who became a fighting Marine at the age of 50 to go fight in WW2) did it himself! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Do...

Paul Douglas (Illinois politician) - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

fifty was older in those days! sez I, as it approaches.

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