• @deafboy@lemmy.world
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    -252 years ago

    A real crime here is the draft. And before the tankies start circling this post, it applies to russia as well.

    • @occhionaut@lemmy.world
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      572 years ago

      I usually dislike picking hairs of evil when the alternative solution was getting annexed back into a cultural meat grinder

      • @gmtom@lemmy.world
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        72 years ago

        A lot of keyboard warriors that like to belive they would gladly fight and die for the glory of their country if the time came, but are so far removed from the realities of war, that when they think of war they think of movies and video games, not watching your freinds get blown into chunks by an artillery shell or rocket while you’re making an MRE in your trench.

      • @mea_rah@lemmy.world
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        -122 years ago

        Calling it a crime is fucked up. Especially in a thread where actual crime (taking bribes) is discussed.

        • @CoffeeGrounds@lemmy.world
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          112 years ago

          You can’t seriously be equating the moral shortcomings of taking a bribe to the complete immorality of imposing a draft on others and forcing them to march towards near certain death

          • @mea_rah@lemmy.world
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            -22 years ago

            I definitely can. It would be a completely different topic in russia where they draft people to sustain occupation. If Ukraine stopped defending now, you’d have Buchas and Mariupols all over Ukraine with many dead. So I don’t really see it as immoral as much as it sucks for everyone involved.

            Compared to that, taking bribes from desperate people is next level fucked up and it’s effectively profiteering on genocide.

    • @soviettaters@lemmy.world
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      242 years ago

      Dude, Ukraine was invaded. The last time the US has had to use a draft for circumstances like this was the Civil War, and everyone now thinks it was warranted then.

    • @SwedishFool@lemmy.world
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      222 years ago

      You won’t find a single country on this planet that wouldn’t draft their citizens in a wartime situation while you’re running out of soldiers. Not a single one.