In Switzerland, the basic training lasts a year I think? And is meant to teach how the army works and how to use weapons and not just rifles and pistols and knives. Depending on their role they also learn how to use artillery, mortars, how to use maps, how to use vehicles and tanks, how to make calculations and navigate and so much more.

The whole point of this is that when shit hits the fan, any additional training takes a lot less time.

It has to be well implemented and taught well. Maybe in your case it wasn’t and you have a bad experience of it.

Any country that’s serious about training it’s people to be ready for combat in case of a serious invasion will probably do a better job than one that isn’t because they want to be prepared.

In any case, I can understand why you would feel the way you do if it was implemented poorly in your country.

Mandatory military service only trains them in the basics so they are ready when the risk becomes reality.

Switzerland has mandatory service. France used to have mandatory service. It never created what your said it creates.

I think you’re making a lot of assumptions.

You have a better idea for NATO members and other US allies when Trump decides to break all ties and befriend Russia? If they don’t have enough resources in the military to defend themselves, what are they supposed to do?

Time to make military service mandatory again.

You reap what you fucking sow.

It’s pretty convenient to call aid organizations terrorists. That gives you an excuse to kill them and prevent any aid to be delivered to the people you’re trying to wipe out.

Yeah, it does.

In Montreal, about 0.1% of the people own about 30% of the properties. Most of them are rich property investors. Many of which are real estate agents, too. They own the market.

Maybe the one child per family policy was a bad policy…

It’s funny how the Chinese government can’t admit to making any mistakes. This would only prove they are human.

Yeah but can we try to stop it before that happens?

I’m asking you to explain to me what is so different from what is happening in Gaza to a Holocaust.

They’ve been systematically eliminating Gazans at this point. Concentrating them in camps and them bombing the camps. Setting fire to them with incendiary bombs. They’ve had snipers shoot children. They’ve been systematically and indiscriminately killing everyone. They’ve almost wiped out the entire population of Gaza.

What makes that different from a Holocaust?

According to History.com:

The Holocaust was the state-sponsored persecution and mass murder of millions of European Jews, Romani people, the intellectually disabled, political dissidents and homosexuals by the German Nazi regime between 1933 and 1945. The word “holocaust,” from the Greek words “holos” (whole) and “kaustos” (burned), was historically used to describe a sacrificial offering burned on an altar.

After years of Nazi rule in Germany, dictator Adolf Hitler’s “Final Solution”—now known as the Holocaust—came to fruition during World War II, with mass killing centers in concentration camps. About six million Jews and some five million others, targeted for racial, political, ideological and behavioral reasons, died in the Holocaust—more than one million of those who perished were children.

What’s happening right now is no different from that. Anyone that’s Arab in the region has faced state-sponsered persecution and mass murder. Israel is burning everything down from Gaza to the West Bank to Lebanon and it’ll keep going beyond those borders into Syria and even Iraq and Saudi Arabia.

That’s their “final solution”. It’s to kill everyone in those region or get rid of them one way or another. They’re experimenting how far they can push the limits of their international support.

If you think I’m wrong, I’d like to hear your arguments.

I’ve lost faith at this point.

Canada’s Prime Minister just posted something about the October 7th incident like it’s the most horrible thing to happen in the Middle East, when there’s a literal Holocaust happening in all of Palestine.

It’s fucking tone deaf.

But he’s got the anti defamation league and B’nai B’rith breathing down his neck at the same time. So it doesn’t matter what we do or say or how much we write to them or protest, they still won’t fucking listen.

And somehow, the conservatives are high in the polls for the next election somehow.

It make zero sense.

It’s pretty dumb to produce an article like this. The whole Gaza strip has been destroyed. There’s no real job left. Everybody’s just trying to survive.

No, getting drinking water and chasing whatever provisions are left is not a job.

Whatever job is left is nurse and doctor and I bet even they are not getting paid, so does it even qualify as a job?

C’mon.

How optimistic.

What’s a good alternative though? Tech giants have taken over Internet search and are pretty much all striving to be alike in generating the most revenue possible through ads and incorporating AI.

Trump would tell Netanyahu to nuke the place and he’d fucking do it. It would be a catastrophe the likes of which we haven’t seen since WWII.

Right? I think that’s when the US will eventually say stop.

But who knows.

Then they’ll do Syria, then Egypt with the Muslim brotherhood, then they’ll attack Iraq, then they’ll attack Saudi Arabia, and it’ll continue on and on like this.

Public libraries often have CDs tout can borrow.