serious question: if you refuse to serve during a war, do they just arrest you? And wouldn’t it be better than… going to war?
Dig this trench to protect your landlord's ability to gouge your decendants.
Submitted 3 weeks ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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eager_eagle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Arbiter@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Depends on how the country decides to treat its prisoners.
mosiacmango@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Getting shot is also a common response in some nations.
Gigasser@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Serve? In WW3? Will just be suicide. Motherfuckers will deploy, and immediately be hit by a fucking nuke. Imagine this, 1 million troops land on a beach, and then in one instant, 1 million troops are gone immediately. The only real survivors in that war will likely be submarine crews and suited up, souped up, CBRN troops either way too deep into enemy line or way away from the front lines. Any warfare after the nukes drop will just be indicative of whatever fucking spite or malice that’s deep in humanity’s heart. I mean shit, I’ve asked my military friends about WW3 once, and they said that if the world is suffering nuclear hellfire anyways, and they’ve somehow survived? They’d immediately turn their tanks and guns towards the very leaders who sent the world into such a Holocaust.
Aux@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
They arrest you and send you to war, but without weapons.
VitoRobles@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
The pandemic showed us that we are willing to throw nice words around and call people heroes and then watch them melt down because nobody wants to work anymore to make my fajita.
Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
*work for poverty wages while inflation hits 40-year highs, brought on by 14+ years of open-purse monetary policy.
Labor is always available at higher points on the supply curve.
BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m just gonna volunteer to go on the front lines and home I get taken out as quick and painlessly as possible
Samskara@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
You get assigned a task in an office.
TaiCrunch@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Computer infrastructure is the front lines now
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’ve seen many war movies where you just stick your head out of the foxhole and suddenly you get hit in the head in a very gruesome way. But very quick. Better than pissing off hulk and then getting your head grabbed and used to smash your body onto the dirt in full hulk rage. One thing not to do is to casually drink coffee or chocolate. That’s when they get you in the stomach. That’s a painful death.
Valmond@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You can always volunteer today even.
blackstampede@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
This design of molotov is unsafe.
You want the rag (soaked in fuel) to be affixed around the neck of the bottle so that it doesn’t blow up in your hand.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
The real life pro tip is always in the comments.
kamen@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Technically correct if you die… with the caveat that you won’t be able to do much else.
DJDarren@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Don’t threaten me with a good time.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
I thought I was sad before reading this…
DeusUmbra@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I won’t have to go into the office, doesn’t mean I won’t be putting in work.
girlthing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I think the assumption is that WW3 will involve nukes, and we’
WereCat@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Working as in ten dead?
disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I see comments like this from Americans who are surprised that Ukrainians are still working and going to school. Do they think people just stop needing food and rent money because the streets are getting bombed?
Stovetop@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Weird that it would be coming from Americans given how often US media has depicted the importance of the homefront during the various wars that America has participated in.
Militaries still need food and supplies to operate, so someone has to be making/raising/growing all of that stuff. And those workers need to be paid, accommodated, and kept happy, so every other industry like banking, education, healthcare, entertainment, etc. needs to keep running at full steam to prop up all aspects of the supply chain.
disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They have Rosie the Riveter on a vintage tee but have no clue what she represents.
Aux@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Many US states like Mississippi have a higher gun death rate than Ukraine during an active war. If people can go to work in Mississippi, they definitely can do the same in Ukraine.
bugg@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
It’s similar to how Americans can have domestic terrorism be a constant occurrence but it barely is a concept. It’s not uncommon to have small cells blow up and sabotage electric grids during the dead of winter now. It’s common enough where every winter I have some prep just in case my grid is attacked.
Or even more regularly, lone wolves mass shoot people waiting for a 4th of July Parade, or the movies, or the grocery store, or a school, or anywhere really because being shot dead for no reason is always a consideration for an American. My family always has eyes out for mass shooters. There’s a few in my city every year.
Hell we even had domestic terror cells plan to plan to kidnap and murder a Blue State Governor.
But still Americans generally won’t connect all of these things and call it what it is: an irregular war on a domestic level.
Americans who haven’t gone to war themselves, or haven’t studied this issue, think of war mostly and only as Total War. Where everything is bombed out 100%. There is no functioning anything and there’s only apocalyptic style survival. More like a zombie apocalypse scenario.
They don’t realize war for normal people keeps going. Which is just only a few grades above what most Americans live under every day.
This concept of, the only real war is Total War, is partly why it’s so easy to sell to American Conservstives that Ukraine should just give up because they’re already dead. I think that the Americans who believe this propaganda would be shocked to know that anything still stands in Ukraine. I assume they assume that 95% Ukraine looks like post-bomb Dresden.
real_squids@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Also, wars are hella expensive. Taxes going up is inevitable, the cost of living will go up, it’s just a question of “when”, not “if”.
disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Property tax, and subsequently rent, is already going to go up thanks to the dismantling of the Department of Education. People just haven’t realized that yet. The federal taxes previously used to supplement schools will be going toward the wealthy tax breaks. We’re not getting that back.
mmddmm@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
They think that once all the capital is destroyed, they’ll get to live like kings by taking the full value of their work.
And they won’t accept to learn their work is only that valuable because of that capital.
Draces@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
We think we’ll be dead ya jackass