• Flori
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    11 months ago

    Since taking office at the beginning of 2023, Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has been thinking about ways to make the Bundeswehr more attractive as a career.

    No amount of money or benefits will ever make me a government’s boot licker. Sorry, not sorry

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      11 months ago

      Maybe you personally. But money would actually solve all their problems.

      All they provide today is a shitty job with bad pay and no future prospects.

      They are not finding enough soldiers because all these soft modern young adults are too selfish for that job, just like companies find no employees because those spoiled brats are too lazy to work. Obviously none of it has to do with not providing reasonable payments of course. So forced labor is the the proposed solution.

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        11 months ago

        It sounds like you earn too much, or you are projecting. Maybe both. Also, I hope you’re better than them and have already joined the military.

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          11 months ago

          Yeah, sure… I am “projecting” personal experience in the Bundeswehr two decades ago. It was already a shitshow back then with only those with no job prospects anywhere else considering to join (outside some special and very limeted numbers, using their time there to study… but that’s not the bulk of soldiers). It went downhill from there ever since.

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      11 months ago

      So what is the alternative? Let any authoritarian asshole who has managed to convince many boot lickers to join him, take over your country?