Ukraine sacks army recruitment chiefs in anti-graft shakeup
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President Volodymyr Zelenskiy broadened his battle against graft on Friday, firing all the heads of Ukraine's regional army recruitment centres as the war with Russia enters a critical stage.
  • Wanderer@lemm.ee
    115·
    1 year ago

    I would be more likely to go the other way starship troopers style only those with the character to defend their country should have the right to vote in that country. Those leeching off the system and letting others doing the difficult things shouldn’t be rewarded

    • wahming@lemmy.world
      11·
      1 year ago

      So essentially install a military dictatorship, because only the military gets any votes?

      • Wanderer@lemm.ee
        11·
        1 year ago

        I was on about the book.

        The film is great but philosophically it’s a shadow of the book.

    • AnarchoYeasty@beehaw.org
      4·
      1 year ago

      So only able bodied men and women. Big yikes. Also people who aren’t soldiers are leeches. Even bigger yikes.

      • Wanderer@lemm.ee
        13·
        1 year ago

        Obviously not read starship troopers thet make it very clear that anyone can serve and will be accommodated. And they make it very clear that being in the military isn’t the only way to serve.

        It’s just above providing for your country and earning the right to vote.

        • AnarchoYeasty@beehaw.org
          3·
          1 year ago

          Oh well if starship fucking troopers says it. You do realize that’s satire right. Jesus fuck you fascists are so fucking oblivious it isn’t funny.

          • Wanderer@lemm.ee
            0·
            1 year ago

            First thing was that no draft is stupid and even something like starship troopers needing to serve the country in some way to be worth of a vote isn’t the worst idea in the world so it’s better than that. You don’t think there is anything at all in having some means of people that are willing to do more for their country be it military or otherwise should have more of a vote than those that do nothing and would leave it the second it isn’t doing enough for them? Some people want to make their country and the world a better place, why should they get less than someone that does nothing.

            I’m not arguing that Turing should have been on the front line or that the Bevin Boys weren’t serving their country and willing to do everything possible to help their country and should have equality. Just those trying to escape when things go bad shouldn’t have the same rights when things go well off the backs of others.

            • brain_in_a_box [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              Dude “You should have to provide service to the abstract idea that is ‘the nation’ in order to get your human rights” is just fascism, no matter how you try to spin it.

      • Wanderer@lemm.ee
        0·
        1 year ago

        Absolute state of the world that the view that people should defend their country is facism. I’m sure the allies didn’t see themselves as fascist in WW2

          • Wanderer@lemm.ee
            0·
            1 year ago

            You don’t think the allies out people in jail for not helping with the war effort?

            Right tell me how every example of “you need to do something for your country to get citizenship” is fascism? Plenty have people have argued that you need to be educated to vote or to have land to vote or whatever. They are shit systems yes but they aren’t fascism.

            You’re just using an over used internet buzzword. It’s going to lose all meaning eventually.