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Hey frustrated friend, I've been commenting in this thread in your support, trying to give you a more experienced perspective on this community. But as it stands, my instance lemmy.ml has been defederated from your instance infosec.pub, so you're not able to see any posts or comments from that instance (although it's the main dev instance).

Here's a link to your comment thread via the lemmy.world instance where you can see all comments.
Early on I tried to warn you, that you will not get any kind of open or constructive discussion in this community and as it turned out, looking at the ending of your conversation with Wildmimic (which himself has blocked the lemmy.ml instance, so he couldn't see any of my commentary either), and the tangential discussions I provoked, I think sadly I've been proven right.
In my comments I also provided you with some ideas on where to get good information about the geopolitics of this war, explicitly non-communist, as the political thought of Marxism is not needed to deconstruct the dynamics (although, it's the best approach over all, but that's just my experience).

Ya, anyway, just wanted to let you know. Doesn't matter if you care or not, but now you got the full picture of the conversation. Have a nice day and don't let you get dragged down by these people, you've done nothing wrong.

You just had a conversation with an account that specializes in western propaganda against China and Russia, the two big adversaries of the USA.

@Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org as well as several other accounts do exactly that, by only posting explicitly anti-China and anti-Russia articles, often from the most obscure sources. Daily.

As with this post, it‘s US propaganda and financed by the CIA run Voice of Tibet as outlined here.

Not ML, but you mean like that? Glad I could help.

Or, you know, you check the sourcing and realize:

according to a report by the Dharamshala-based independent radio station Voice of Tibet (VoT).

And so you check their about us page and find: 

It was founded by three Norwegian NGOs; The Norwegian Human Rights House, The Norwegian Tibet Committee and Worldview Rights. The project has been funded through donations from supportive organizations and private individuals.

… and start to wonder, as this dosn‘t seem very homegrown, why‘s the west involved here? So you check Wikipedia and find:

It receives funds from the United States National Endowment for Democracy.

And you might wonder, oh what‘s that and you check them out and realize, that the NED is a known CIA operation being directly funded by the US government and exists:

with the stated aim of advancing democracy worldwide and countering communist influence abroad by promoting political and economic institutions, such as political groups, business groups, trade unions, and free markets.

🦅 Hurr Durr! Democracy! Freedom! 🦅

Extra source, but be careful, it‘s from the evil Chinese government: Fact Sheet on the National Endowment for Democracy

Ya, you just got rage baited by US propaganda to be more angry at China. GJ, be proud! Keep on hating on the evil leftists from ML, lol.

Maybe, also avoid @RandAlThor@lemmy.ca posts, because they keep posting exactly this kind of shit.

So you never learned basic English? And now you have to refer to your passport in order to be able to distinguish men from women? lol, sure bro.

Man/men, woman/women, people, humans.

Male and female are adjectives to describe sex. Man and woman are cultural gender roles, which would be the right choice here.

Probably a bit complicated in some cases, as all this a a fairly recent cultural topic and some people actively struggle with a changing culture that‘s not strongly patriarchal, but either way, male and female is something you use maybe in more clinical or scientific settings, i.e. a female human.

Using female for woman is a bit like using „Weib“ in German.

Only, that‘s not „one of the reasons“ these people protest. That‘s a dumb culture war talking point, but not based in reality. I‘m sure you can find people that moan about women not having the same rights as men to die for their capitalist nation state, but as I said, that‘s not a protest reason. Inform yourself.

Also, you explicitly chose that non-reason to give as an answer (instead of actual reasons), which would be either ignorant as hell or willful agitation as a divisive tool by the use of half-truths. And I‘m inclined to think you‘re usually doing the latter.

You are the one using derogatory language towards women, calling them „young girls“. This whole whiney bullshit, how women are so privileged when it comes to the hard burdens, that the poor men have to suffer, but women are exempt from is straight up right wing incel yapping. It‘s chauvinist and sexist.

Sure, there is a debate to be had about this, but the societal progressive perspective would certainly not be to also invite women to die at the frontlines, but to actually not reinstate compulsory military service, but get rid of it altogether.
And then maybe open up the service for everyone that‘s willing to participate by their own motivation … oh wait, that‘s already the case …

The basic law dictates compulsory military service, but that has been suspended for a while now, because after the fall of the Soviet Union the need for that went down, the Bundeswehr was of little relevance.

The basic law also grants you the right to refuse the service for conscientious reasons (like not willing to kill, religion). Usually in those cases you‘d end up doing some substitute civilian service, anyway, if otherwise you‘d be fit for military service.

What‘s happening now is, that Germany is gearing up for war against Russia. Militarization is in full swing, money is funneled towards military spending, as well as infrastructure spending that benefits the military (west-east axis to transfer equipment and units), all while spending on social, cultural and educational sectors is being cut.

And with that the state has a renewed interest in human military stock that would be available, if that war actually happened.

So the suspension is cancelled and slowly, but surely, the younger generation will be compelled to join the compulsory military service. And you‘re right, for changes in the basic law, you would need a two thirds majority.

Now here comes the „conscientious reasons“ into play, because the threshold of what counts as such is defined through normal laws and these can be changed more easily (simple majority, I believe).

Basic law defines: „you can refuse for conscientious reasons“; normal law defines: „what actually is a conscientious reason in case of refusal“.

So the problem here is, that citizens are granted the right to refuse, but the state dictates the conditions on what counts and what not.

In practice the state will create the conditions to get the amount of people into the military, they think they need. Against the will of the individual, if need be.

So the youth is protesting against compulsory military service because of gender inequality, that‘s your take here? I wish you‘d just not comment at all, if you have no idea, what you‘re actually talking about. That‘s really the dumbest take I‘ve heard, yet.

Also, if anything: „If you‘re a young ~~girl~~ woman“, because I do hope you‘re not talking about child soldiers, but are merely a sexist dipshit.

Schönen Frauentag.

Point three is just you freestyling thoughts now. I just read of the Laconia Incendent and besides how fucking grim all of this is, ya, there actually are more honorable procedures and lengths to go through, other than straight up and purposely killing everyone. But that‘s just not how the US rolls.