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Gen Z Is Not Getting Drafted To WW3

2025/6/30
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主讲人: 我认为Z世代不会被征召参加第三次世界大战,因为我们这一代人普遍不适合参军,并且对参战意愿不高。即使第三次世界大战发生的可能性很小,仍然让我感到害怕。我个人而言,如果真的发生征兵,我可能无法通过训练,或者我会选择坐牢而不是参战。Z世代普遍对可能发生的战争持戏谑态度,通过制作表情包来应对。我们更关心个人生活和经济压力,而不是参与战争。我们正在努力建设自己,但高房价和经济压力让我们对未来感到担忧。即使我们成为退伍军人,也可能无法在当前的经济环境下维持生计。如果我参战回来,我只想休息,不想再做任何事情。总之,Z世代对第三次世界大战和征兵持逃避和不严肃的态度,更倾向于关注个人生活和未来发展。

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The podcast discusses the recurring online discussions about a potential World War III draft and Gen Z's reaction to it, marked by humor and memes rather than serious concern. The speaker expresses their personal unwillingness to participate in a war and questions the likelihood of a draft.
  • Recurring discussions about a potential World War III draft.
  • Gen Z's humorous and meme-filled reaction.
  • Unwillingness to participate in a war.
  • Unlikelyhood of a draft.

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Just a quick disclaimer, if you're here for the most thorough political takes on this situation, you're in the wrong place. But I just wanted to talk about this topic because I feel like it happens every year at this point. I'm sh*tting my f*cking pants because there's news about a draft in World War 3 possibly happening. I think everybody in Gen Z, we as in Gen Z, can say, "We're not going to World War 3."

We are not being drafted to the military. Well, I mean, unless you want to be in the military. If that's your thing, then go for it. And of course, thank you very much for your service. But me personally, I'm not going. I'm a bitch. I'm not about that life. I am not built for the military. You put me on the front lines, I would probably cry.

I actually would cry and like run away bush camp if I had to. I'd have the aim of a stormtrooper and I probably wouldn't be able to hold the gun straight. And I'm sure a lot of you agree like, bro, I'm not built for this. I don't want to get

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Drafted. And the amount of times I've heard World War III thrown around in the news or the draft coming back, getting thrown around in the news is unreal. And now I'm not saying it's not going to happen. I'm just saying there's a very slim chance of it happening. I'd say maybe there's like a 0.5% chance that it would actually happen. And that's if World War III actually does start.

The amount of defense systems and all this other shit that we have now, I think the last thing they would do is call just regular Joes and Gen Z on the battlefield. Now, what started all this news about World War III possibly happening and all this other shit? Well,

the iran military whoever is managing that twitter was tweeting like 2016 bomb like i don't know what's going on bro but they tweeted quote everyone will feel it feel what and who's everybody not me i don't know why everybody's involved now but and all i'm asking is ref please do something bro i'm trying to see gta 6 and what further escalated this fear is that trump

attacked three Iran nuclear sites. And then he tweeted about it. At this point, bro, what is Twitter even about? That is the last place I expected to see news. And of course, because that happened, it just raised people's concerns even more about a potential World War III. But it seems like every goddamn week, World War III is trending. Like I'll open Twitter reluctantly and I'll see that World War III is trending. And at this point, I'm like, okay, what the hell happened this time?

Because everyone was talking about in 2018, 2020, 2023, and 2024. So at this point, I'm shaking my goddamn boots every week when I see World War 3 trending on Twitter. Okay, and obviously I know the odds of it happening are very slim, but the fact...

that it could happen just scares the out of me even that slim possibility sometimes keeps me wide awake at night that world war iii could happen and that me i would be on the front lines well that's if a draft actually happens at sierra i discovered top workout gear at incredible prices which might lead to another discovery your headphones haven't been connected this whole time awkward

Discover top brands at unexpectedly low prices. Sierra, let's get moving. I thought about how the draft was pretty much a last resort option that I felt a little bit better about it. I remember last year I was freaking the hell out about it. Everyone thought it was cooked. It was over. We were going to get drafted tomorrow. Our summer 2024 was going to be the last summer we ever had.

But obviously, that was not the case. And I'm sure a lot of you are wondering, hypothetically, what would actually happen if there was a World War III draft? Basically, anybody who is 18 to 25 would be selected in the first group. And they select it based on your birthday. That's how they did it in 1973 for the Vietnam War.

And if they needed a second group afterward, they would select people 26 to 39. And they'd start with people who are turning 20 the year of the draft. Then they go 21, 22, so on. Then 19 year olds, then 18 year olds. And then that second group.

And by some shot in the dark, if I end up getting drafted, I don't even think I'm going to pass training. So they're just going to send me home. They're going to be like, dude, we do not want you. But if they do want me, then I got to think about my options. Either take the five years of prison time that you get for refusing the draft or just nut up and do it. Because I mean, I do like living here, but then again, I'm not built for the military. Like I was saying at the beginning. And also I'm not trying to die either. I'm trying to stay alive.

But Gen Z has got to be the most unserious generation of all time. Like they are not going to want most of us. But it's crazy that we got to be the ones to settle the beef for these old ass politicians. Like most of us would be using chat GPT to get through military training and would probably have to use it on the battlefield too. And I don't know if I could speak for everybody else, but I know I would. And Gen Z is already making memes.

about the possibility of World War III. And we've done this every single time this has come up in the news at all. And that just shows how unserious our generation is, bro. Or well, at least most of us, okay? I think most of us know that we are not fit for a battlefield. These memes are funny as hell. Like, yeah, sure. Should we be taking this situation more seriously? If you went on a road trip and you didn't stop for a Big Mac...

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Yeah, but I'm not gonna lie, bro. I've been spam liking these. The amount of memes I've been seeing about World War 3 relating to Fortnite is wild. We'd be wondering where the materials are when we get on the battlefield or we'd use the rocket ride method to win or something. I don't know. If you scrolled on TikTok,

or reels once you've definitely at least seen one this week especially at the peak of the conflict everybody was making memes about it or you'd see memes just about like a draft happening in general and how gen z is going to avoid the draft we are dead ass cooking up methods to avoid the draft if it ever happens and can i even blame them

No, because shit, I'm trying to avoid it too. People are saying if that were to happen, they'd flee the country. Some people would fake an injury, illness, or disability. Back in like the 1930s, 40s, a bunch of people wanted to be in the military. People were doing the most to try to get in the military. But in 1973...

Bro, nobody wanted to go to the Vietnam War draft. Everybody was fed up with all the wars and all this other shit going on. Now, people have been protesting for peace ever since the 1960s. If our asses get called to the front lines, oh, it's gonna go even worse for them this time. Because back in the 70s, people were also brewing up methods to avoid the draft as well. There was...

570 000 people that were classified as draft offenders and a lot of people got out of serving time in prison But if it were to actually happen this time, oh they're hunting our asses down They're making sure we spend that time in prison or we go to the military and fight in war But I don't even know if they're gonna have enough room in the prison for everybody taking the prison time at this point If we really were out there, what would be happening is people would be posting pre-war fit people

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Nobody's hyped for this shit. But now I'm bumping that playlist. We got to see what's in here. Okay, so here it is. We got World War III hype playlist. Safe and sound, capital cities. Ric Flair drip. Plain Jane. Walk it like I talk it. Oh my God, bro. This is a banger playlist. I can't lie. Summer, Calvin Harris. Look alive. All right, bro. We are bumping this if we get on the battlefield.

And it has to be mentioned, okay, we're going to take our phones with us. We're not going to want to leave our phones behind. Like, I have to make sure I attack in the Klan more. It has to happen. And of course, people won't break their Snapchat streaks, bro. They got to send them every single day. But seriously, who is doing streaks in the Big 25?

I can't lie. That is pretty crazy. And there's going to be people doom scrolling. And I'm going to be honest. I'm going to need a quick doom scroll too. At this point, there is no microscopic percentage. What if we went? At this point, we're not going. It's just not going to work. Because we're already becoming adults in like the worst era to freshly become an adult. Because we had the pandemic.

Thank God I wasn't an adult yet during that. We had that inflation era in 2022 where gas prices were an arm and a leg. Then we had the beginning of this year where the economy just fucking shit itself. Like, I don't know what happened there. People gotta use shit like Klarna to finance their lunch at Subway. Like, it's just not good. So yeah, we all just want to worry about our own life and the shit we got going on.

We're trying to build ourselves up right now and house prices are higher than ever. So I got a lot of work to do clearly. And even if we were war veterans, I don't even think we'd be able to provide for ourselves. Like the benefits just wouldn't be enough in this economy. Like if I come back after doing that shit, bro, I'm

never gonna want to do anything again i'm gonna want to lie down and just do whatever the hell i want i'm not gonna get a job i'm not doing anything else like that bro because at that point i would have done enough but yeah if you want other videos on this topic check out tommy nfg and alex way i thought their videos are very good so i'm gonna put them in the description and i'll see you guys in the next one peace