• TTimo
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    71 year ago

    What country was drafting in 1932? No major war effort going on anywhere at the time afaik.

    • @[email protected]
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      151 year ago

      Idk about drafts but some conflicts in that period:

      • French-IndoChina vs Siam

      • Saya San Rebellion

      • Sino-Tibetan War

      • Kumul Rebellion

      • Idrisid Emirate Rebellion

      • Najran conflict

      • Uukwambi uprising

      • Annexation of Jimma

      • Chechen uprising of 1932

      • Two-Liu War

      • Kirghiz rebellion

      • La Matanza

      • January 28 incident (China v Japan)

      • Darre Khel revolt

      • Soviet–Japanese border conflicts

      • 1932 armed uprising in Mongolia

      • Lesko uprising

      • Constitutionalist Revolution of Brazil

      • Ecuadorian Civil War of 1932

      • Sanjurjada

      • Colombia–Peru War

      • Chaco War

      And technically the Emus vs Australia. This list has not been vetted by a professional nor is it a complete or exhaustive list.

      • @[email protected]
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        1 year ago

        And it’s just one year! Damn, 20th century was very full of events. And 21st century started with Putino-Ukrainian war.

        • @[email protected]
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          71 year ago

          Not all of them started or ended in 1932. And Russia v Ukraine is far from the first 21st century conflict, the entire official US vs Iraq war was 2003 to 2011 for example.

  • @[email protected]
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    2131 year ago

    This is based as far as I can tell.

    It’s a bummer how killing strangers for your government is glorified.

    • Elvith Ma'for
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      291 year ago

      It’s a bummer how killing strangers for your government is glorified.

      Killing for yourself: Government will track you down, kick your door in and throw you in prison and maybe send you into the death row.

      Killing for your government: Government will provide training, shelter, equipment, pay you and award you medals.

      • r00ty
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        241 year ago

        Killing for your government: Government will track you down, kick your door in and throw you in prison for refusing to.

        Fixed thar for you :P

    • @[email protected]
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      121 year ago

      Tribalism. Our tribe is good, their tribe is bad. If you are not with your tribe, you are a traitor, so people are pressurized into this, and start believing lies about our glorious pride and wise leaders.

    • Makhno
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      951 year ago

      It’s a bummer how killing strangers for your government is glorified.

      It’s definitely more palatable when the strangers you’re killing are nazis

      • @[email protected]
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        321 year ago

        But the story in the greentext takes place in 1932, before the Nazis even got into power in Germany.

          • @[email protected]
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            91 year ago

            Japan was invading China.

            But this is clearly fake and connected to the month of June.

            Anon probably read a story about this happening and assumed the heir of the protagonist. Then used online for attention and group feedback on his projection that hiding in a cave is somehow based.

            They are probably in that cave right now.

      • @[email protected]
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        391 year ago

        I can agree that there’s been an extremely minuscule amount of justifiable war in an endless number of wars.

  • THCDenton
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    831 year ago

    Based. Put the people who declared the war on the frontline.

    • @[email protected]
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      271 year ago

      That’s often the case when it’s a battle over shit like oil but for instance when Germany attacked Poland, it’s the Poles’ primary responsibility to fight for what is theirs. “Let the people who declared war be on the front line” okay well in this example that’s Germany and you’re going to lose everything your family ever worked for.

      • @[email protected]
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        101 year ago

        *if you and your family own stuff. Which is not the case for most working class people. The same working class getting shoved to the front lines.

        • @[email protected]
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          161 year ago

          Get out with this class essentialism.

          Going from prole renting a shitty apartment who barely owns a car and a washing machine, to forcibly deported or forced to renounce your culture and teach your children the invader’s language and culture is not “potato, potato”.
          Sometimes there are other things to fight for than capital, even if this might sound like a foreign concept to Westerners whose country hasn’t been directly involved in a meaningful non-imperialist conflict since 1945.

          • @[email protected]
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            11 year ago

            Wars are always about profit of one or more sides. Abolish all governments and you will have no problem with nationalistic ocupation lol.

    • @[email protected]
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      41 year ago

      My favorite is the Battle of El Sauce, at which the International Consortium of Spanish-speaking Countries defeated the Yum! Brands Taco Bell Corporate Mercenaries to save the word “salsa” from extinction

      • r00ty
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        61 year ago

        Humans? I knew it! Even when it was the bears, I knew it was them!

  • @[email protected]
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    31 year ago

    Pussy. If you not going to defend your family and your countrymen when it’s needed whats the point?

    A lot of people have died to make your life better. It didn’t come for free.

    • AbsentBird
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      Doesn’t it depend on the war? A lot of good allied soldiers died defeating the Nazis, but a lot of good would-be Nazis also found ways to avoid service.

      Every draft dodger in the invading nation is one less soldier you need to defend against.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        If they are avoiding it because they are “afraid” then yes. If they are doing it because fuck Putin then no

  • @[email protected]
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    701 year ago

    I’m going to go with based. I would not have wanted to be a conscript with the rank of private in any army at this time period. You’ll be badly treated disposable cannon fodder and you’ll be stuck in that situation until the war ends, until you get taken prisoner, until you desert, or until you died.

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    My grandfather did the exact same thing. But he was in conquered France and did it to avoid being drafted by the Nazis.

    Edit: There were also a stories of other people in the village finding other ways to avoid the Nazi draft. One of them pretended to be deaf and managed to avoid falling for a few tricks the Germans played on him in an attempt to expose him, such as dropping a coin behind his back. Another one reported to the draft medical examination after purposefully biking over an insanely long distance. When he arrived he was completely exhausted and the doctor deemed him too anemic for military service. All of those in the village who couldn’t dodge the draft were sent as cannon fodder on the eastern front and never returned, except for one “lucky” individual who lost a leg.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        But sometimes you have to invade to defend.

        How would you defeat Hitler without invading Germany or all the countries he occupied?