• Weslee@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    This is an opinion piece, how can one person make such sweeping claims about an entire generation without even doing any interviews or anything.

    It’s a stupid opinion piece too. Ofc the army numbers go down during peacetime… What would be the point of paying for a 500k+ army you aren’t using?

    Also I’m pretty sure when most people were drafted for WW1 or WW2 they weren’t happy about it.

    Ah just saw the note about the site being an opinion news site, makes sense then

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      10 months ago

      LBC is generally just shit rage-bait and controversy farming.

      They don’t do journalism.

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      10 months ago

      Actually many people were happy to be drafted in WW1 and 2. They volunteered. Women wouldn’t date you if they thought you were a coward. People wouldn’t hire you.

      It was such a problem that people with invisible handicaps (epilepsy, hearth issues, flat feet, etc.) carried around their 4F papers to show that it wasn’t their fault they weren’t at the front.