• OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca
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    20 hours ago

    The Russians are at their doorstep with guns. You can’t just sit there saying “I don’t have a fight with you” and expect them to peacefully leave. They’ve already shot your neighbours. The choice is not yours. You either fight or you die.

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      18 hours ago

      The choice isn’t yours when there’s a draft. If it’s so noble to die defending your state (not people, state) then it should be no problem getting enough volunteers.

      Forcing people to fight for their government is wrong. Maybe some are ok with surrender over risking their life, maybe some are staunch pacifists, maybe some feel their lives won’t change very much under new leadership and would prefer to live.

      Sending teens into a bloodbath by force isn’t good no matter how you try to spin it. Yes the alternative might be losing, but that is their choice.

      You should go fight, they’re accepting foreign volunteers. You go do what you’re asking these children to do. It’s the right thing, isn’t it?

      • ManixT@lemmy.world
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        17 hours ago

        Same bullshit Kremlin copy pasta. Russia is the only country to blame for their imperialistic war, where they are murdering Ukrainians and stealing their land.

        Do you support Russia?

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          8 hours ago

          Yes everyone you don’t like is a Russian agent.

          You haven’t answered why you aren’t going to go fight

          Maybe we’ll meet on the battlefield ;)

          Hey by the way did you hear Hamas forces people to stay in unsafe parts of Gaza as human shields. It’s so evil when the government forces civilians into danger when they could be escaping.

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            8 hours ago

            I’m not talking about Hamas. I’m talking about you parroting Russian propaganda and how you think it’s cute to trivialize Russia’s imperialistic war in Ukraine. Where Vladimir Putin and the Russians that support him decide it’s okay to murder civilians to steal their land. That’s who you are aligning yourself with.

            • leftytighty@slrpnk.net
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              8 hours ago

              Then go fight. Where’s your answer to that?

              Go die instead of some kid. Anti-imperialists used to have balls. Go fight.

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                8 hours ago

                I’m fighting propaganda like what you spread.

                Do you feel good supporting Russia?

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                  7 hours ago

                  lol maybe those kids can shitpost instead and you can pick up a gun. Do you feel good forcing a mother to send her teen son into trench warfare?

                  Thanks for finally inspiring me to block this cesspool. You’re a scumbag.

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          17 hours ago

          They didn’t say Russia wasn’t to blame, or that what Russia is doing is justified. They said - and I happen to agree - that conscription is always wrong. No one should, under any circumstance, be compelled by force to fight and die for their state or for any other reason. The choice to risk one’s own life for a cause - even a cause of defense - is your choice alone.

          Should young Ukrainians volunteer to defend their independence? Probably, but that’s up to them, or at least it should be.

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            8 hours ago

            there’s no room for this kind of nuance in this community, it’s a bunch of what I can only describe as rabid liberals.

            oh I must be a Trump supporting Russia man for saying that.

            It’s funny how they’re all choosing to ignore that they can go fight in Ukraine right now. I wonder why they aren’t?

            It’s ok to order 18 year olds to do it for them though because “that’s what’s right.”

            Yeah, easy for them to say.

            I wonder where they’ll draw the line. By the same arguments we should be drafting women and children old enough to hold a gun.

            They should all fight and die for their country shouldn’t they? Everyone owes their life to the arbitrary governing body of the region they were born in. They own you and should be able to send you to your death. How liberal.

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      18 hours ago

      Ok lol you go enlist then if you’re so comitted.

      In fact if you support a draft we should force you to enlist against your will

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        18 hours ago

        Same old bullshit copy pasta from the Kremlin.

        How do you not understand that Russia has invaded their country and is murdering them and stealing their land?

        If someone broke into your house and was about to shoot you and your teenage daughter and wife were in the other room would you be like “yeah I don’t believe in violence”? What good would that do?

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          8 hours ago

          Yes the state you were born in is your family and you must defend them like your daughter.

          The political body that happened to be in control by force of the territory where your parents fucked owns your soul and can send you to your death when you have barely finished puberty and aren’t even done developing your brain.

          The arbitrary social construct of “the state” is a higher form of power that not only can (in the ability sense) but morally must order children to die to defend itself.

          Anyone trying to take their family and leave the warzone is a criminal and must be killed. That land must be defended, those politicians have graciously let you live for too long.

          You go fight and die in Ukraine, if enough of you did they wouldn’t be sending their kids. You go and do it, I’ll pay for your plane ticket.