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Thousands of German pupils protest against military service plans (dpa-international.com)
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[–] Twongo@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 month ago

oh no the selfish german youth that has a future of low wages and no retirement ahead of them doesn't want to be part of the war machine (that only protects stock prices and takes money away from needed social spending) to defend a country that fucks them over since birth?

how could they!

[–] BlushedPotatoPlayers@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Weren't the plans about voluntary service?

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 33 points 1 month ago

It is voluntary at the start, but with the intention to turn into forced conscription if target numbers of new recruits are not reached.
By the way, this target number is expected to be raised on a yearly basis.

It is clear where this is leading.

[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I favor a national vote to declare war. Everyone who votes Yes is conscripted into service.

Most of the time, you arent defending your nation, youre invading another nation because they have:

1 Oil 2 strategic land 3 some valuable natural resource your country wants 4 some other religion

Surprise if people do t want to blindly sign up to kill people over those.

[–] Shipgirlboy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Countries that invade others for resources and land traditionally aren't very democratic in the first place. As nice as your idea sounds, it is unfortunately not viable.