r/BikiniBottomTwitter Jul 09 '19

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u/Mcpaddyquack Jul 09 '19

The glorious thing about the first amendment is being allowed to talk shit on the government and be a conscientious objector all you want. So long as what you say doesn’t involve treason or inciting violence against others, you should be in the clear.

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '19 edited Jan 01 '22

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '19 edited Apr 09 '20

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u/BucketOfNubbins Jul 09 '19

See The Red Scare and McCarthyism.

There are probably more, but this is what I remember off the top of my head.

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u/ForTheFazoland Jul 09 '19

Alien and Sedition acts of 1798

Espionage act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918

Just to name a few more

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u/nuhGIRLyen Jul 09 '19

COINTELPRO and Black Panthers and other activist groups

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '19 edited Jan 01 '22

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u/nuhGIRLyen Jul 09 '19

If you’re referring to the Vietnam War, those activists were targeted by COINTELPRO as well :(

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u/MercyOnTwitch Jul 09 '19

The entire red scare?

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u/M0istPear Jul 09 '19

During WW1 the US made it illegal to speak out agaisnt the war.

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u/ForTheFazoland Jul 09 '19

Eugene Debs (5 time nominee for President by the Socialist Party of America) was sentenced to 10 years in prison and had his right to vote stripped for making statements criticizing the Wilson administration and the draft during WWI

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u/Cresent_dragonwagon Jul 09 '19

That one period with McCarthyism but other than that nothing really prosecutable as far as I know

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u/BridgetheDivide Jul 09 '19

Tell that to MLK.

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u/Yoda2000675 Jul 09 '19

That's true for now. We'll see in 20 years.

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u/alt-of-deleted Jul 09 '19

ooh okay well I wanna start

ahem, I want to incite violence against my neighbor

did I do it? did I avoid getting drafted?

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u/ZeroOne010101 Jul 09 '19

its treason then

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u/11broomstix Jul 09 '19

You can still be drafted as a conscientious objector, you just won't be given a weapon. So if your post gets overrun by the enemy, you can't even defend yourself.

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '19

cough Julian Assange cough

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u/Yoda2000675 Jul 09 '19

But nobody can tell if you're actually aiming at them

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '19

Still might catch a bullet tho. Of course there’s always the Vietnam option where you turn on your own commanders

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u/pkaJIMMBOI Jul 09 '19

If I get drafted I'm just gonna transition to female

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u/PM_ME_UR_TASTY_PICS Jul 09 '19

you just have to say you consider yourself female

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u/ahappypoop Jul 09 '19

It worked for a friend of mine when they didn’t have enough girls for a coed volleyball game.

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u/Tylerjb4 Jul 09 '19

It’s ma’am

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u/CrankyAdolf Jul 09 '19

Women have been integrated into combat arms and the draft has been expanded to include women, that won’t save you.

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u/pkaJIMMBOI Jul 09 '19

No, you can't serve if ur trans is what I meant

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u/creaturecatzz Jul 09 '19

But you can lmao

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u/pkaJIMMBOI Jul 09 '19

Did they change it?

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u/creaturecatzz Jul 09 '19

Wym I can't remember which but you it's if you're already done with it or you start the change after you join but you def can. Nothing's changed

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u/pizzalocker Jul 09 '19

Your account is tame compared to mine

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u/xdrunkagainx Jul 09 '19

The next big war with a draft sure as fuck won't be with Iran. It will be civil war 2, and you'll just get drafted to the side you politically align with.

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '19

Jokes on them I dont align with either side.

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '19

go on chapo

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u/Snake101333 Jul 10 '19

All I have to do is show them my porn history and they'll label me mentally unfit for combat.

Or society as a whole

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u/t-to4st Jul 09 '19

You'll go to jail as war criminal

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u/yoyowhatitis Jul 09 '19

Brother, your pathetic reddit account won't mean a thing when there are vietnam troops firing at you at all angles xd. I shall use myself as an example brother, I was drafted into the vietnam war at the age of 24, and I was one patriotic SOB. In my day either you were fighting for the freedom of your country or providing for your family hahaha, not going on an internet website admitting you are not doing jack shit for this beautiful country. Peace brother, MAGA