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*everyone who is willing to fight for their country will fight for the people, not the politicians.

Is that better?

I really don’t think that its the size of the country or population that meant push back against a national ID. I’d argue it was the weird “rugged individualism” thing that Americans have, I mean just recently I was reading about how Americans were against postcodes and one of the reasons they mentioned was this attitude of individualism, anything the big scary government does is seen as a personal insult and a slippery slope towards some sort of authoritarian state.

From what I’ve heard and seen the main motivations for Americans to join the military is the pay and getting a education (scholarship? Idk the details). Now the pay is not that good, the education doesn’t matter because things are going down the toilet anyway… And you still have to go bomb girl schools and stuff. I completely understand the reluctance to join up, forcing people to do so is not going to help either.

Dont get me wrong, I have no good things to say about the US military actions and deployments. Vietnam was a atrocity, borderline genocide, a environmental crime of stupendous proportions.

Some Finnish troops were deployed in Afghanistan but didnt do much. Finland has been quite involved in peacekeeping missions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_Defence_Forces#Peacekeeping_operations

I mean the first Gulf War was initiated because Saddam attacked Kuwait lol. Out of all the wars the US has been involved since 1945, that was the least worst. Saddam needed to be kicked in the teeth and they should have finished the job back then, not leave it up to Junior to fuck up in the 2000s.

Eugh, I feel disgusted for having to mildly defend a US military action. Why’d you make me do this?!

Yeah the major difference is that the US forces fight to keep a global hegemony and the military industrial complex running.

The fight we have always been preparing for is to defend against a attack from russia. There was a funny thing that happened, a Finnish military person was being interviewed by a foreign media, the guy was explaining about our defenses on the east of the country. Then the reporter asked “what if the enemy comes from the west?” and the military guy replied “well, then the enemy has made a large flanking maneuver.”

America has been protected by two massive oceans, a friendly neighbor in the north and a weak neighbor in the south. For an American to go “defend” his country means to invade another country thousands and thousands of kilometers away.

Finland has been cursed with a 1300km long border with a maniac. For a Finn to go defend his country means that he is going to be in a trench that goes through a farm that was owned by his fellow citizen. Thats a completely different perspective and attitude.

Last time I checked the support for the mandatory military service was at over 80%, that was a year or so after the escalation of the Ukraine war. It might have come down from that, but pretty sure the vast majority still support it.

No one is going to fight for Stubb’s interests. No one is going to fight for Orpo’s interests. No one is going to fight to keep the government safe. Everyone is going to fight to defend our country, the land, the people. The way our system is set up is not to use the military to go abroad and slay dragons, as I’ve heard it put by someone, somewhere… Our military isn’t even called the army or military anymore, its Puolustusvoimat, defense forces. And here it actually means that, unlike in that one country on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean. Our forces do take part in peace keeping operations and such but those are 100% volunteers, you have to actively want to go there, nobody will be forced to do that.

Also, a minor detail, even though the President is the commander-in-chief of the military, that will change if a war breaks out. That also happened in the past, the highest ranking military person will take over the duties of the CIC, President will continue with the civil duties etc.

Well, as a Finn, we already have that.

Every 17 year old male gets a letter telling them to show up at a time and a place, then they get interviewed and asked where you wish to go, a specific military unit, civil service or jail. They also get a health check up.

Ireland and UK: lets not discuss this to avoid unnecessary whining

The French: LISTEN UP EVERYONE

Rejoice!

That’s fine. Others appreciate the annoying twat spamming every thread about it. I’d rather read about it many times than not know about it at all. Thanks to that particular annoying twat, I read up on it and put it on my block list. So, yay for the annoying twat! :)

Electric hydrofoil.

From the thumbnail I thought maybe they were hovercraft of some sort… But nope, its even less “flying” than a hovercraft.

Why couldn’t you do exactly that in the first place though?

At least over here theres laws about having your vehicle inside the parking space. If its over the lines, you get a fine. Just need to enforce that, double the fines and the morons who buy these stupid things will finance our cities out of financial problems.

If true, good.

I don’t mind these stupid trucks coming over here, as long as you need a C-license to drive one and if they are limited to 90km/h.

Yup I understand the choice you made with Fluxer, I have nothing against using that :) I just got burned with having to migrate from one chat app to another. I started with IRC back in the day, 1700 years ago. When Discord started with their stupid shenanigans, I realized that IRC is still going and because the way it works, it will never ask my ID or anything. And if it does, I can just change a client or make one myself. So I found a couple of nice IRC communities and decided that I’ll be fine with just using that. :)

I am interested but I am not interested in installing and joining yet another chat app that will be enshittificated within the next 5-10 years. I checked your Mastodon profile but it seems you have forgot or abandoned it. Perhaps create a lemmy instance for us Luddites who don’t want to install Fluxer?

I do wonder why don’t they just send them home

Get rid of abortion clinics. They are not needed.

Have the procedure done in a hospital. If a person walks into a hospital, who knows what they are going in for? Unless their leg is at a 90 degree angle, or something equally obvious, the privacy of the patient is preserved.