{"id":86327,"date":"2023-10-26T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86327"},"modified":"2023-10-26T10:02:26","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T15:02:26","slug":"the-futures-so-bright-i-gotta-wear-shades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86327","title":{"rendered":"The Future&#8217;s So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen a bit of a resurcence of the traditional 20-something paranoia about &#8220;the draft&#8221; that pops up whenever the world seems turbulent.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Gen-Z is just not prepared for the draft. They\u2019re genuinely worried about what it would mean for them.  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/X8RF38OFqn\">pic.twitter.com\/X8RF38OFqn<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stillgray\/status\/1717164462342647992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 25, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But this post isn&#8217;t about Selective Service.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ll come back to that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Minnesota&#8217;s &#8220;Peace&#8221; creep community isn&#8217;t any smarter than it&#8217;s ever been<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rep Betty McCollum was too busy affirming \u201cIsrael&#39;s right to defend itself&quot; (aka GENOCIDE AGAINST GAZA) to talk to Us Palestine Solidarity Activists, arresting us instead.<br><br>As Representative McCollum must know, apartheid Israel isn\u2019t \u201cDEFENDING ITSELF\u201d it is occupying Palestine. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/e7hEsguVJM\">pic.twitter.com\/e7hEsguVJM<\/a><\/p>&mdash; MN Anti-War Committee (@AntiwarMN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AntiwarMN\/status\/1717345412476997726?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 26, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My first response:  Our GenZ &#8220;activist community&#8221; has gone from &#8220;Punch a Nazi&#8217; to unquestioningly supporting a literal fascist government that obsesses over race and advocates and practices the annihilation of the Jews.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;ve come a long way, Zeepers!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But let&#8217;s go back to the top of this post, with the other Zoomers fretting about the draft.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The draft &#8211; being flooded with and responsible for paying, training and managing hordes of unwilling recruits who&#8217;ll spend a year or two as mediocre to poor soldiers &#8211; is the last thing our military wants.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;d always assumed &#8211; mostly correctly &#8211; that that was for doctrinal reasons; willing soldiers are better, more trainable, more capable soldiers.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But looking at the caliber of the demographic pool, at the top and especially in the second videos above, I can think of a other reason&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve seen a bit of a resurcence of the traditional 20-something paranoia about &#8220;the draft&#8221; that pops up whenever the world seems turbulent. Example: But this post isn&#8217;t about Selective Service. We&#8217;ll come back to that. Minnesota&#8217;s &#8220;Peace&#8221; creep community isn&#8217;t any smarter than it&#8217;s ever been My first response: Our GenZ &#8220;activist community&#8221; has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86328,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86327\/revisions\/86328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}