It's only not compulsory if enough people volunteer. It's like robbing someone and telling them at gunpoint: "I'll only take your money by force, if you don't give it to me out of your own free will." "We'll force half a million of you to die and kill for the oligarchy unless of course you volunteer to do that. (And by the way, we just destroyed the economy and the job market and brutally cut social services, so...)"
woodenghost
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Exactly, the scenario has nothing to do with veganism, it's just a strawman
They don't though. They do not have any right to do this protest during school hours at all. They literally disobey orders and risk being kicked out of school for participating. Those brave children are being threatened and punished by principals, teachers, parents, politicians and the police. All of whom have abandoned them to be grinded into mush at the eastern front for a pointless war. And the children stand up for live and peace anyway against the coming of the fascist death cult. Don't let them stand alone. Read Karl Liebknecht.
They already passed the law that will bring back compulsory military service under the pretense of only resorting to it if not enough young people volunteer.
It's even spelled wrong in the comic!
A prerequisite to any sensible solution of the conflict must be the complete disarming of the various armed groups of the white Minnesotians. They are all religious extremists controlled by the KKK anyway and mostly motivated by their hate of the fact, that Minnisomalia is the only real democracy west of Cuba.
Minnisomalia has a right to defend itself! Also this conflict is very very complex and involves ancient religious claims on both sides, so there really aren't any easy solutions except for keeping on increasing the funding for weapon shipments to Minnisomalia.
Thank you. Can we please acknowledge the beautiful design of the cover? Apparently it's from a figure in the book that illustrates the divergence of value and prices. It's also in this shorter article from monthly review. The cover even looks a bit used and dirty on purpose, indicating it's meant to be carried with you and read, rather than just displayed on a shelf.
Moths, they're cool and cute.
Looks delicious!
You're right, maybe adolescents would have been a better word. "Child" can be meant as developmentally before puberty (which wouldn't fit here), but in most English countries it also has a legal meaning of being under 18 (or 21) years old - that's what I had in mind.
The participants of the protests are mostly underage and objectively lack the many privileges and rights of autonomy which our society awards older people. That they protest despite that is all the more impressive.