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Laeserin | 5 months ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +4 
 Mandatory military service to be reactivated. 
(It was only paused, the Basic Law was not changed.)

https://www.welt.de/debatte/kommentare/article251988104/Pistorius-Plan-Die-Rueckkehr-zum-Wehrdienst-ist-richtig.html
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₿logging₿itcoin | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Conscription sucks.
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Maxim | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 CDU is sceptical, so they will try to push it before the elections.
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Laeserin | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I guess my kids will soon get a letter.
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jericho | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Article talks about conscription for women too. This is insane, though there are roles they can play, combat is one that women should never be subjected to. All war is bad and stupid… *big sigh* …
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Laeserin | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Yeah, I have a boy and a girl.

Germany already hardly has any kids and now they're trying to send the young women to the front. 🥴
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5d8e79cb | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Well to be fair they did once all but lost in the mists of time now, but it wasn't for an abstract entity called the state.
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Laeserin | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 They could raise the birth rate really fast by exempting pregnant or nursing mothers. 🤣
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jericho | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 This is a fact!

What scares me, beyond the inevitability of these coming wars (or so it seems) is the declining birth rates worldwide. We have four (on girl/3boys) and just the maintenance of first world infrastructure is going to be challenging, not to mention having progress on the technology front at the same time with rapidly decreasing populations…
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LibertyGal | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Besides the fact that most (all?) women are not good candidates for war/soldiering, adding women to the battle endangers the men.  They will be so worried about defending and protecting the women (or sexually distracted) that they won't be focused on their job as soldiers leading to them failing at their objectives and/or being killed.
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Laeserin | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I wonder if the migrants can be conscripted or only citizens.
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LibertyGal | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Conscription is slavery.  Anyone who supports conscription or a draft needs to accept that they support the government owning slaves.