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Cake day: August 6th, 2024

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  • Here’s my honest answer:

    I, like most men, just like looking at a beautiful woman. But I try not to stare at said woman in order to not make her uncomfortable. I’m very aware that many men stare at beautiful women openly and I do not want to be viewed as being one of these men. However, I’m fiercely on her side when it comes to her rights to dress however she wants.

    And those troglodytes who would blame her for attracting unwanted attention disgust me. Even if a woman was raped it can never be her fault, even if she went outside nude.

    That’s also why, while not being anti-Islam, I very much view the Islamic dress code as a symptom of a male-dominated social consensus that the victims of male aggression are to blame for it.

    TL;DR: In what I view as an ideal society, women would be comfortable wearing revealing clothes and not be afraid of anything.








  • If this comment saves only one person from wasting their money, it is worth it:

    Do not buy Focal Bathys.

    The build quality is super cheap, mine broke not even two years after purchase. The plastic surrounding the metal bits that connect the central part to the ear pads will break sooner or later.







  • glorkontoMemes@lemmy.mlImperial soldiers be like
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    I never specifically said “joining US military is bad”, I said joining the military in general is a bad thing. And neither did I talk about nukes, which are the ultimate evil.

    I also never demanded to remove the military capabilities of one country, leaving it open for other countries to attack. I never talked about these things, about balance of power, about mutually assured destruction and all these geostrategic aspects of military logic.

    All I said was - if you are a person who joins your country’s military, I despise you. Period. This is a statement I made completely disregarding all these other aspects you mention, and it is completely logically valid on its own.


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    You failed to get the point I was making. Just because the military is a driving factor to technological progress, doesn’t mean it’s a good thing all of a sudden. And all that progress could also have been made by science. Wernher von Braun didn’t care who funded his research into rockets.



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    Thank you very much for saying that, but in hindsight it was actually a great life experience. I met a man who was 103 at the time, in 1997. So he was 21 years old when WWI broke out. He later joined the German socialist party SPD, he resisted the Nazis and was forced to emigrate, he had such amazing stories to tell.

    I think he played a big part in why I became interested in politics, German history and also why I became an antifascist and anti-militarist. Him and the fact that the Nazis executed one of my two grandfathers for “defaitism”.


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    Feeling you have no other option (despite a lot of other jobs being on offer) and totally not having any other option (because they’ll put you in jail for not paying taxes) are two completely different things.

    With all due respect, but there is no reason to join the army unless they force you to. Even when Germany still had mandatory military service and they wanted to draft me in 1997, I opted to wipe old peoples’ butts in an old people’s home instead because that was the only way out. Don’t you dare tell me there is no other option.