• Flori@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    10 months ago

    Since taking office at the beginning of 2023, Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has been thinking about ways to make the Bundeswehr more attractive as a career.

    No amount of money or benefits will ever make me a government’s boot licker. Sorry, not sorry

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      10 months ago

      Maybe you personally. But money would actually solve all their problems.

      All they provide today is a shitty job with bad pay and no future prospects.

      They are not finding enough soldiers because all these soft modern young adults are too selfish for that job, just like companies find no employees because those spoiled brats are too lazy to work. Obviously none of it has to do with not providing reasonable payments of course. So forced labor is the the proposed solution.

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    10 months ago

    I believe it is a good idea, not only will it foster a closer feeling of unity and understanding between citizens, it will also be something all citizens have in common, and something you can talk about with anyone.

    I am a bit sad that I never got to do it, I did muster, but failed the hearing test, at the time I was relieved, but now, I miss it sort of.

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      10 months ago

      Being forced to risk your life for something you don’t believe in won’t create a feeling of unity.

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        10 months ago

        So you don’t believe in fighting against invasion by a foregin power?

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          10 months ago

          In what reality would Germany ever get invaded and not deserve it?

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              10 months ago

              They’re sending weapons to Saudi Arabia and Israel. They put sanctions on Afghanistan that are causing a famine. They’re funding Frontex, which kills migrants in the Mediterranean and those who make it get put into concentration camps. And that’s just some of it. The German government are war criminals and serial human rights abusers. Anyone who takes up arms to defend these people is complicit.