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Mandatory military service for a free college tuition = WHAT?!

posted 12 years ago by gloops_new_account
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This scene kind of blew me away with it's idiocy. Even the most hawkist neocon wouldn't make such a crazy suggestion as mandatory service (whether it be military, peace corps, etc).

When Ryan Gosling said "it's a complete win, those who are against it, can't vote yet!", I literally laughed. Yeah, like the parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc who are old enough to vote would go along with this knowing that their family member would be forced into service in a few years. Any candidate who even breathed such a suggestion would be have a huge chunk of his base abandon him.

[–] firstwinsgop 11 years ago

It would not be popular at all, but you have to remember that Gosling's character is a committed liberal so it makes sense that he might be so blinded by his own ideology that he'd think it would be popular. Liberals tend to be like that. And "national service" has historically been a popular idea with the left going all the way back to the Hitlerjugend.

[–] denise1234 11 years ago

firstwinsgop^

Yep ~

~~ If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story ~ Orson Welles

[–] S_Prowsky 11 years ago

"And "national service" has historically been a popular idea with the LEFT going all the way back to the HITLERjugend."

Troll

[–] glass_goblin 9 years ago

Except that Hitler was a reactionary, aka Right Wing on the political spectrum.

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[–] saturnchick 9 years ago

I think the concept you're misunderstanding is "free". Don't plenty of people voluntarily enlist for the armed services in the U.S. to earn college education benefits?

Gosling's character wasn't suggesting that military service was mandatory for admission to college, but for *FREE* college.

Screws fall out all of the time. The world's an imperfect place.

[–] atmegh 8 years ago

Israel does it and we still give them billions of dollars.