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Germany votes to bring in voluntary military service programme for 18-year-olds

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126 points petermcneeley | 4 comments | 06 Dec 25 19:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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appreciatorBus ◴[06 Dec 25 23:48 UTC] No.46177701[source]▶
> "We don't want to spend half a year of our lives locked up in barracks, being trained in drill and obedience and learning to kill," the organisers of the protests wrote in a statement posted on social media. "War offers no prospects for the future and destroys our livelihoods."

Is the idea that it’s better for your livelihood to just start learning how speak Russian now?

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lawn ◴[07 Dec 25 07:30 UTC] No.46179918[source]▶
Learning to speak Russian, and to live with the massive amount of corruption, prosecution, genocide, and much lower quality of life.

Assuming you survive the initial wave of plunder, rape and murder of course.

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jasonvorhe[dead post] ◴[07 Dec 25 10:02 UTC] No.46180564[source]▶
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disgruntledphd2 ◴[07 Dec 25 10:14 UTC] No.46180622[source]▶
Do you think Russians have a better quality of life than Germans?
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jasonvorhe[dead post] ◴[07 Dec 25 10:22 UTC] No.46180663[source]▶
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1. fifilura ◴[07 Dec 25 10:49 UTC] No.46180789[source]▶
Maybe you should look for other sources than random YouTube videos of people shopping in central Moscow.

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/04/02/indoor-plumbing-st...

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2. jasonvorhe ◴[07 Dec 25 11:24 UTC] No.46180949[source]▶
And you're posting a 6+ years old news report about indoor plumbing for a country with the lowest population density (in squared kilometers) of ~8.5 compared to ~35 (US) and ~100 (all of the EU) as if it had any meaning.

Good luck, man.

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3. fifilura ◴[07 Dec 25 11:42 UTC] No.46181037[source]▶
Says the guy who is "Looking at various videos of people going shopping in Russia I see lots of full cabinets"
4. Amezarak ◴[07 Dec 25 11:50 UTC] No.46181075[source]▶
Indoor plumbing doesn't have anything to do with population density. Millions of rural Americans have indoor plumbing without municipal water and sewer systems, using wells and septic tanks.