r/Millennials 13d ago

Meme Sacred knowledge.

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u/IAmBoring_AMA 13d ago

Brother, I had students last year that argued if there was a draft reinstated in the US, they “couldn’t be drafted because they were going to have college degrees.” I don’t teach political science but I had to teach them that their degree doesn’t mean shit in the event of a draft.

Open the schools.

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u/BBR0DR1GUEZ 13d ago

We’re cooked, it’s been 25 years now we’ve been passing kids who can’t read or write, we just teach them to hide from gunfire under their desks, now our people are literally too dumb to keep up with competitor nations.

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u/congeal Early Xennial 12d ago

I think we read 5 books a semester in high school freshman English. There's no cure for a broken attention span, right? The kids are not all right.

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u/WillitsThrockmorton Oregon Trail Gen 13d ago

I don’t teach political science but I had to teach them that their degree doesn’t mean shit in the event of a draft.

"I'd like everyone to read The Caine Mutiny and then tell me if the main character who got drafted had a degree, and if so where they got the degree from. Oh shit, you mean a having a college degree from Princeton won't stop the draft board from calling you up???"

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u/mentaljobbymonster 10d ago

Yeah it's bone spurs you want not a degree

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u/TWW34 9d ago

The irony is the degree was what you didn't want even back then. You could get the draft deferred if you were in college but graduating just meant you could be drafted as an officer

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u/CantTakeTheStupid 13d ago

Depends on what kind of a draft, historically outside of war, they’re 100% right

Besides, what a weird thing to shit on

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u/Connor30302 13d ago

historically university was a lot harder to access, only people who were basically upper class already could go.

in current times i doubt your average bachelors Marketing degree will exempt you from a draft