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by justrealist 1102 days ago
Yeah... but if they can be tricked into joining the military, they're incredibly likely to waste their potential on other internet traps than divert it into something productive.

This give them a couple years of (mostly) internet detox before getting sent back into it.
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justizin 1102 days ago
“Anyone who can be fooled by an internet scam should be sent to war” is faulty in two ways, given that it hinges on a young person making poorly informed decisions:

  - being sent to war should probably not be the result of being young and gullible
  - if we need to send anyone to war, should we send the dumbest people we can find?
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more_corn 1102 days ago
Productive… not sure the military produces much. More on the blow things up side of the divide if ya ask me.

But sure, if they don’t lose a limb, die or become traumatized and kill themselves it’s not a bad life course.

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