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over and over again, we see that governments are pretty bad at doing their job. over and over again, they prove to us that they cant handle money, that they are corrupt, that they put the interest of their political class above that of the people.

so are you surprised?

id rather be left alone as much as possible in my pursuit of happiness. On my own terms!

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Forget the government, what about your fellow humans? Is defending your country an obligation towards your government or towards your neighbor?
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My country and my neighbors I would defend, my government not so much.
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How is refusing to kill your fellow men selfishness? For one organization over one other?
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In Bucha members of the Russian army systematically raped and murdered the towns occupants after it was occupied.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucha_massacre

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"Fuck you got mine" is the attitude of the boomers expecting young people to die for a country that the boomers left economically and demographically ruined. Young Germans have the worst life prospects of any generation in the past fifty years.
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But if you look at serious polls then not many young people will actually fight for this. I remember reading a number of around 15%... And those probably don't have a high IQ.
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That's a generation of people who had to never suffer the prospect of invasion and occupation of German soil by hostile armed forces. Even so, this number of willing recruits would already be much more than the Bundeswehr can possibly arm, and are unneeded as long as there is no military altercation actively involving Germany.
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You're discussing boomers in the context of an awful lot of history.
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