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LearnedHand

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2. Not sure i understand how the draft could be related to engagement with political parties

Reply to hlthe2b (Reply #1)

Sat Mar 29, 2025, 08:03 AM

Mar 2025

I mean it's fair to ask, but might it be a little like comparing apples and chainsaws? Also, lest we focus through the wrong end of the microscope, to horrible mix metaphors, it's probably better to demand that the parties explain why they're driving young people away than to demand that young people shape up and get with the parties.

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Why Young Voters Are Ignoring Mainstream Politics [View all] Celerity Mar 2025 OP

Is this what decades of avoiding mandatory military service/drafts does? (not that that is not a good thing) hlthe2b Mar 2025 #1

Not sure i understand how the draft could be related to engagement with political parties LearnedHand Mar 2025 #2

Conscription with possible deployment does tend to focus the mind. Think about it. hlthe2b Mar 2025 #6

Conscription returns to Europe? Celerity Mar 2025 #3

WOW hlthe2b Mar 2025 #5

I'm very tired of that "indictment" about getting news from social medai LearnedHand Mar 2025 #4

Curated news has become highly problematic Sympthsical Mar 2025 #7

Information was curated for us long before social media leftstreet Mar 2025 #8

Of course Sympthsical Mar 2025 #9

All very excellent points leftstreet Mar 2025 #11

I get it LearnedHand Mar 2025 #10

This and let's say legacy media was not profit driven the people currently reporting it are rich AF and don't relate uponit7771 Mar 2025 #12

I'm not sure the medium really matters cadoman Mar 2025 #13

Both US parties are deeply indebted to the wealthy. usonian Mar 2025 #14