• Bobr@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org
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      1 day ago

      Ah right, thanks for pointing out my mistake!
      When talking about army of kidnapped slaves I of course meant the one from the country where busification (act of violently kidnapping someone to send them to the meatgrinder, obviously against their will) has become “the word of 2024” according to a dictionary organization from that same country.
      Would you be so kind to help me to identify this country, pretty please?

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        Russia. They conscripted. They also ran out of them so had to empty prisons and use them. And when that wasn’t enough, conscripted again. And also enlist from overseas, offering lavish pay to Africans and Pakistanis et al for engineering and analytics jobs in the army but were actually sent to the front lines (so they’d die and not have to continue paying them).

        A marked difference from conscription in defence of the homeland wouldn’t you say?

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            11 hours ago

            Thank you. Sometimes it feels like shouting into the wind!

            But yea, two things can indeed be true.

            When your country is under invasion and you have a legally mandated conscription … of course people will be scared and try to evade it.

            But they try and hand wave over the fact that Russia also does it and much worse, especially when they don’t need to because they’re fighting an offensive war (badly).

            America had the draft and so did Britain. Was that decried as abhorrent?