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They’re even drafting Olympic athletes?

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Nah, dude went out Patrick Tillman style.

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Why would Olympic athletes not be drafted?

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Because Olympic athletes getting blown up in a dumb war is bad for morale.

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God I’m tired of Lemmy.ml users

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The Ukrainian government clearly reckons that famous people getting special treatment is worse

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Might be bad for morale, but I assure you it would strengthen my resolve.

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Never heard of a thing called a “celebrated war hero” and what it can do for the morale of ordinary conscripts?

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See Mohammed Ali. See Elvis Presley.

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In both cases, they were seen as subversives who reactionaries were glad to be rid of.

It’s not an automatic system, they stood in front of a draft board who ruled they’ll either join the army or go to prison.

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I’m too old and a foreign national, but since my late teen years I was committed to doing a ted nugent if it came to it.

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Ali was convicted of draft dodging when he very publicly burned his draft card and refused enlistment. He was arrested, in Houston, after repeatedly refusing to acknowledge his name during induction. Then he spent the next eight months fighting the charge of draft dodging as a conscientious objector, ultimately appealing and winning his defection in a SCOTUS decision. Along the way, all his titles were revoked.

Presley got an absolute sweetheart deal and spent his two years “at war”, living in a West German hotel, recording for RCA in his ample downtime, getting addicted to amphetamines thanks to a ahem helpful senior officer, and then being discharged with honors after being promoted to sergeant as part of a giant photo-op.

It does not look like Pielieshenko’s experiences were comparable in either respect.

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Rather irrelevant to the original question. Any man can be drafted, whether they go or not is another question we aren’t addressing here. But thanks for that history brush up!

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He volunteered.

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o7

Slava Ukraini

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RIP

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Maybe ban Russia from the Olympics? Totally, none of this Russian Olympic committee bullshit.

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Sure if we ban israel from the Olympics too.

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Sounds like a win win to me

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Yeah, any moment now …

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I wonder if the reason Greek stopped conflict during the Olympics was because everyone kept banning eachother.

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Yeah I’m down.

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Sounds a lot like US House of Representatives, but in this case I don’t see why not.

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Maybe ban Russia from the Olympics?

They’re already banned from the Olympics. Their athletes compete under the “Olympic Athletes from Russia” banner and represented by the Olympic Flag.

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I think that’s what OP is referring to.

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That gets tricky, because there are a number of other Russian nationals competing under different national banners.

Israel has welcomed the highest number of athletes, with 25 former Russian athletes now competing under the Israeli flag. Serbia followed closely with 19 athletes, while Germany and France attracted 13 and 12 athletes respectively.

Would all these athletes also become banned?

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That will teach them 😎

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Needless.

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BlacRock and JPMorgan disagree.

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Politicians hide themselves away

They only started the war

Why should they go out to fight?

They leave that role to the poor, yeah

Time will tell on their power minds

Making war just for fun

Treating people just like pawns in chess

Wait till their judgement day comes, yeah!

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Surprise, Sue-fucking-prise.

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