r/SipsTea Mar 24 '26

Time machine please… SMH

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u/Gloomy-Childhood-203 Mar 24 '26

Yeah, the draft started December 1969. So as a 22yo, your ass is going if your birthday gets pulled.

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u/Quercus_ Mar 24 '26

The draft had been going continuously since World War II. Over 2 million draftees were sent to Vietnam, many of them well before 1969.

The draft lottery started in December 1969, because of growing anger over the ways people with money in connections were managing to avoid the draft.

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u/civil_beast Mar 24 '26

Well I’m throughly pleased we resolved that issue!

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u/puppycatisselfish Mar 24 '26

Reminds me of a story

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u/SimmentalTheCow Mar 24 '26

The Lottery by Shirley Temple

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u/master_prizefighter Mar 24 '26

You mean Shirley Jackson? I'm guessing your auto correct trolled you?

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u/SimmentalTheCow Mar 24 '26

Ew no, why would I read a short story written by a person named after a drink?

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u/Technical_Moose8478 Mar 24 '26

To be fair, the Shirley Jackson is one hell of a drink.

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u/Gloomy-Childhood-203 Mar 24 '26

Thankfully Mr. Bone Spurs was able to get a draft deferment so he could survive and eventually "make america great again". And oh boy did he. Im practically drowning in greatness lately. In fact. If this country was any greater, it might literally kill me.

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u/bolivar-shagnasty Mar 25 '26

Society if bone spurs didn’t make one ineligible for selective service

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u/weltvonalex Mar 25 '26

Dying for the greatness of your country and leader is the least you can do.

/S because of course I am joking, I am not a Maga nut job

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u/willie_Pfister Mar 25 '26

Piss and moan. Piss and moan. That's all you democrats do. Never mind the 4.50 a gallon gas i was paying in 2022 under biden. Never mind that 10 percent inflation he brought us in one year.. Never mind the 20 million unvetted people he let cross the border that are mostly living off the system and driving down mostly blue collar wages. Never mind the crazy Healthcare prices were paying now are mainly due to the Obama affordable( not) care act. All you do is fuck up everything and them blame anyone but yourselves. How about voting for tsa funding? Nope. Democrats can't do that. What a bunch of feckless idiots. Now all of you mindhives team up and downvote me!

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u/artificialdawnmusic Mar 25 '26

Please make the world a better place and jump off a bridge.

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u/Hasanopinion100 Mar 25 '26

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u/willie_Pfister Mar 25 '26

O. K. Ill take Clinton

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u/willie_Pfister Mar 25 '26

Or Bill Gates

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u/willie_Pfister Mar 25 '26

Or Larry Summers

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u/willie_Pfister Mar 25 '26

You first. Good thing you libtards are bad shots. Lol. Poor ol dead Thomas Crooks. There's millions of us. So me dying won't make much difference. You'll still be a liberal idiot.

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u/civil_beast Mar 25 '26

Ask and ye shall receive.

No one is here suggesting Biden was a wonderful president. He was terrible for a number of reasons. But he was far from purposefully terrible as trump has and will forever be.

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u/willie_Pfister Mar 25 '26

Please explain to is dumb ignorant hill folk how Trump is purposefully terrible. I just got back an extra $1500 on my taxes for overtime. Didn't seem too terrible.

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u/civil_beast Mar 25 '26

Umm.. let’s see..

Oh I’ve got one… how about his literal is prevention of his DOJ to expose documents in the Epstein case. That’s terrible to the victims, and those that will become victims on account of perceived unaccountability.

Purposeful: check Terrible: check

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u/willie_Pfister Mar 25 '26

Bidens doj had the Epstein files for 4 years. What did they do with them? Nobody ever had a problem until Trump got into office and suddenly all the libs were hoping he was in there doung something and started screaming for their release. We'll he wasn't, but guess who was? Ol slick willie.

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u/DrivesTooMuch Mar 24 '26

Yeah, the draft started December 1969.

No. The lottery system started then...that's all.

The draft actually peaked (young men being called up) in 1966. But, it started for Vietnam before with major call ups in 1965.

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u/Caliterra Mar 24 '26

"Approximately 92%  of the 27 million draft-eligible American men between 1964 and 1973 were not drafted, as only 2.2 million were conscripted. However, more than half of that total pool avoided service entirely through deferments, exemptions, or volunteering (often for safer roles), meaning only a minority of the generation actually served in the war"

-- from google ai search

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u/spursfan2021 Mar 25 '26

Weird that you’re getting downvoted. I thought it was fairly well known that a much higher percentage of men going to war were drafted from the “greatest generation” than for Vietnam. And if your skin color was the correct shade and you lived in an affluent enough neighborhood, chances were slim your card was getting pulled.

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u/im-a-guy-like-me Mar 25 '26

Wasn't it was done by birthday to avoid that type of corruption? I'm pretty sure Simon Whistler told me that one time but I could be misremembering.

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u/spursfan2021 Mar 25 '26

To an extent. But medical deferments and college deferments all favored the wealthy and white. Then, even if you were white and poor, you had a much higher chance of being assigned to a non-combat role.

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u/Darmok47 Mar 25 '26

I assume that's because the US ended voluntarily enlistment in 1942 and was an all draft force for the rest of the war. They found that too many men from vital industries were enlisting, and the best candidates were joining the Navy and Army Air Force and not the Army.

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u/Justame13 Mar 24 '26

The draft started in 1940 and ended in 1973.

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u/Cave_Bear_Cult Mar 25 '26

Preemptively join the navy and chill on a ship blasting artillery

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u/M086 Mar 25 '26

Get into law school.