• stepan@lemmy.ca
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    22 hours ago

    really fucking weird comments down here. people supporting forced military service. tf

    • couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zip
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      18 hours ago

      Well I guess some people know a bit of history. It’s hard to stay a free country without a military

      • isles@infosec.pub
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        10 hours ago

        Costa Rica’s doing OK. They figured the US keeps starting military coups in the Americas, may as well remove that attack vector. Nobody’s calling them a superpower though.

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      17 hours ago

      It’s a demographic problem where the young feel fucked over by the old. The old are the electorate and the young always get the shit end of the stick.

      They won’t afford anything ever, please pay boomers pension oh and please die for your country.

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      21 hours ago

      Some of the older, really damaged boomers I’ve known in my life are pro forced military service at 18. They think it will harden the youth because either they were forced into it ir they don’t understand that their trauma damaged them, it made them compassionless, not stronger/better.