@MSugma71483 Many cultural and even linguistic "traditions" come from 18th/19th century nationalists going to some village, observing how they do things and then deriving from that the country's entire culture and history.
@TrapForBeaches@EdbieLigerSmith Liashko was a famous politician and he himself is now serving as a soldier.
There surely is an issue with corruption, but it's not like the political elite is sitting in an ivory tower.
@yourekindadumm@thetchuck@EdbieLigerSmith Ukraine is a flatland right next to Russia, whose population used to be largely sympathetic towards them. The Russians still only got the bare minimum and now have thousands of men sitting in Georgia.
Russian technocrats are already afraid they'll end up like Iran or North Korea.
@yourekindadumm@thetchuck@EdbieLigerSmith Russia remains free of criticism, even though they did do a mobilisation wave, deployed mercenaries and continue to deploy criminals and the homeless.
Not to mention the fact that they crossed the border in 2022, not the Ukrainians.
@thetchuck@EdbieLigerSmith You complain about young people being conscripted and now you also decry middle aged/older men being conscripted.
Who's supposed to do the fighting?
Ukraine has been quite lenient towards younger cohorts, because there simply are not that many young men.
@PalmyrPar If women openly and consistently stood by their actual opinion on matters like these, we would have far fewer social problems today.
How many switch street sides when seeing migrants and still advocate for them?
It's not like they cannot see it, they are just cowards.
@PalmyrPar When it comes to their own direct safety, they can read statistics quite well.
Though judging by the defensive responses to the whole matter, they won't even stand by that, instead preferring to assume the role of a victim.
@SororAdriana@Slatzism There is no force, they simply assert that it is homophobic.
Which it is, but it is fine to make a homophobic decision when it comes to your personal life.
Women are just cowards who'd rather play victim than stand by their position and its implications.
@UsingLyft The more astonishing thing is when construction workers are fat.
How can you eat enough to be fat while doing bone breaking labour every day?
@PrussianKalisch The worst offender is probably France. Their "pragmatism" lead them to side with the Ottomans in *1536*, not even a decade after the Siege of Vienna.
Not to mention their generous deployment of colonial troops later on.
@EuropeanPan Only admitting women is the most shortsighted bleeding heart nonsense ever.
Who'll give birth to and raise Afghan men? Afghan women.
The issue you try to avoid by only admitting women, who are of course statistically less violent/criminal, will just arise 14-20 years later.