My point is the exact opposite. The smiley face is to point the hypocrisy of making the loss of 3 abrams something meaningful when Russia lost far, far more.

What proportions of its planes did Russia lost? Of its warships? Of its tanks? :-)

Ukraine shows that in time of war conscription is necessary.

But indeed in peaceful and powerful countries it’s usually requested by conservative for the worst reasons possible, and I think it mostly feeds fascism. Community service is mostly the same. It’s forced labour which is akin to slavery. Conservative like those things because they want to teach obedience and respect, but they are idiots.

Still, conscription is necessary in some conditions, and I wouldn’t oppose it on principle. In France it was stopped because it was expensive and no war was in sight. Time changed and we still have atomic bombs, so in this case I guess it’s quite useless.

But then it asks the question of who the army is defending. With conservative, racists and other fascist friends making most of the police and the army I feel like it’s becoming dangerous. Maybe the army should be more representative of all people. But how can you do it without forcing people? And how do you prevent the army from being a corporation with its own interests and views otherwise?

You can’t have a country without a military to defend it.

No European country is at war. Do you really think it wouldn’t come back if war was actually starting in Europe?

I don’t think children have been stolen yet, but maybe you have sources about it?

Please tell me of one country where you can refuse to obey a call to arms.

Is there a Foss alternative to unity?

Available space is free to build? That’s the least ecologist sentence I read in an ecology or energy discussion. Next you’ll tell me green fuel is renewable and green won’t you?

A lot of lies of wrong stuff here. The environment for example is much more damaged by renewables, because you need truckloads of space to build the wind or solar farm. China demonstrate how hydro can be damaging too. And it usually ignores the need for energy storage. Both solar and batteries need high quantities of minerals, so that’s not better than anything else here. Nuclear is arguably a lot better because of the energy density of the mined material.

Ecologists these days seem like a cult that would rather see the world burn in coal and oil than to see even one nuclear power plant built. And this based on ignorance, fear and lies. It’s sad.

No one is more zealous than the fascists we have in France. But apparently you share their views so whatever.

So it’s a competition and you have to be more of a zealot than them?

Laicity is tolerance. What’s happening currently is the opposite of tolerance. It’s extremism the same as the most zealous fanatics, it’s merely fascist zeal instead of religious zeal.

Modesty is not a religious value. Many philosophies promote it.

The fascist way to inclusion!