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German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad

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You got to admire the fantastic mental gymnastic some people are able to pull off to evade the arrows of accountability and integrity...

I more astound by the mental gymnastics how people can point at every single thing where women get an advantage but at the same tome ignore all the others where they are still disadvantaged

The difference is the "de facto" advantages - provided by nature for example - and "de jure" advantages - when the law is not the same for everyone.

I happen to believe it is pointless to "fight" the former, while governments/societies who put in place the latter are just hypocrites.

But hey, don't let facts and logic stop you in your crusade :)

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In the United States, adult males have to sign up for the Selective Service for the same reason even though we haven't had conscription since the Vietnam War in the late 1970s(?). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_Service_System

I don't know how it worked for anyone else, but I remember the selective service PSA ads when I was growing up -- (that's a manual emdash) If you don't sign up for selective service when you turn 18, you'll be celebrating your birthday at pound-me-in-the-ass federal prison. Or maybe you couldn't get a welfare check, college loan, or federal job. The details are a bit fuzzy. Then a month or two before my 18th birthday…

Most states default to registering you when you get a driver's license, but you can opt-out. Some are opt-in.

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Name 10 common soldiers who liberated a concentration camp , from the top of your head. If you care so much about that as you give the impression of doing.

Sorry I am failing to see your point. Are you implying that the fact there are no common soldiers famous for liberating concentration camps, means that saving further millions that would be killed by the eventual Nazi occupation of Europe, is in vain?

You - who ask for people to sacrifice their lives in the most horrific ways - don't even care to know the names of any of those who have done that before.

To most people, these soldiers are just part of a nameless and faceless mass of flesh and meat to be utilized and expended.

Who would want that to be his destiny? Certainly not you, because you are here on HN typing and not putting your life on the line to defend innocent people in Ukraine, in Haiti, in Africa, and so on.

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No, they are not paid. Their husbands get paid, they have all the pensions and social security benefits, not them. Means total dependence on their husbands. If they get a divorce they have nothing.

> If they get a divorce they have nothing. In a divorce, they typically get half of all assets, child support and alimony. Like I said, it's a terrible system, but you're also terribly misinformed.

They don’t get half, the get half of the martial gains at best, if a prenup exists it could be completely different.

There is a reason why so many women face poverty when they retire.

The system isn’t flawed, it’s skewed on purpose historically.

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> If they get a divorce they have nothing. In a divorce, they typically get half of all assets, child support and alimony. Like I said, it's a terrible system, but you're also terribly misinformed.

They don’t get half, the get half of the martial gains at best, if a prenup exists it could be completely different. There is a reason why so many women face poverty when they retire. The system isn’t flawed, it’s skewed on purpose historically.

> The system isn’t flawed, it’s skewed on purpose historically.

Ah yes, it's a conspiracy.

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Under U.S. federal law, men ages 18–25 must register with the Selective Service System to be eligible for most federal jobs. Federal agencies enforce this under hiring rules in 5 U.S.C. § 3328.

The wording is a bit strange - technically all men (18-25) must register. When I tried to register, I was told I couldn't because I was already registered. The Selective Service auto-registers people from various data sources. But this puts me in a weird spot: I've never actually registered. I am registered. But I did not register - which is the requirement. There are Kafka-esque parts of the US government where this…

You did register, you just didn't realize you did. Time honored tradition in the U.S.

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This is… just false. The US 2024 election saw the election of a whole regime of very male chauvinistic types, and that’s being as neutral and charitable as I can be. In the EU there’s a number of fairly far right parties with adjacent views polling well with a chance to win significant representation in future elections. Asia is very heavily male led, probably more than the West. Same with the Middle East. Around the…

We need to distinguish between "representation" in the sense of belonging to the group vs advocating for the group. For example, most politicians in the West are White. However, zero of them dare to openly advocate for White interests. Many of them openly champion the interests of other racial groups, often to the detriment of Whites. Likewise, most politicians in the West are men. However, zero of them advocate for…

I’ll do the forbidden on the Internet thing and give a nuanced answer.

There are some “woke” policies that might harm groups they’re not designed to help, and some that just do nothing but make people feel good… like the social reform equivalent of trying to save the ocean by banning plastic straws.

Then there are some that do work well and don’t harm anyone else. Every policy is different and has to be evaluated on its merit, which is a big reason I don’t like hyper partisanship. It’s rotting everyone’s brains.

What I said is that the blanket statement “men have no representation” is obviously false, as is the idea that all politicians only try to appeal to women and minorities. I certainly don’t see that in the USA. Don’t know where you are from.

But you said something else: that it feels this way to you. I could see that, but I have to ask: are you sure the people telling you this aren’t full of crap? Or are they telling you this to sell you their own agenda? All media is biased. No exceptions. These days all media tends to be selling something.

I also think what you feel might have less to do with gender or culture war stuff and more to do with the general impoverishment of our societies by a mixture of kleptocracy and incompetence. This harms everyone regardless of gender, race, religion, politics, or a sexuality.

The corrupt and incompetent politicians though… they want us all to blame each other instead of them. So on the right they feed male resentment and on the left they feed female resentment (“femcel” ideology is a thing too). They fan racial and cultural resentments. Anything to keep you from blaming them for the fact that you can’t afford a house and prices keep rising and, at least if you are in the US, your leadership just decided to piss away another heap of money on another war in the Middle East.

Get everyone arguing while you rob them is an old scam.

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They don’t get half, the get half of the martial gains at best, if a prenup exists it could be completely different. There is a reason why so many women face poverty when they retire. The system isn’t flawed, it’s skewed on purpose historically.

> The system isn’t flawed, it’s skewed on purpose historically. Ah yes, it's a conspiracy.

I mean... Yes. Not in the in the dark sense, but in the "working as designed, and you weren't around to be asked input from" sense. Jefferson was really big on sunset dates on these sorts of things specifically so each generation could weigh in on the old and change things over time instead of living in an ossified mausoleum of the collective institutional detritus of the dead.

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My proposed solution is understanding what this scene means: In front of a blood-stained chessboard littered with mutilated chess pieces finely dine two royal couples - black and white - cheering their endgame.

How does that solve any problem?

Kill the royal couples, no problem. There is an argument to be made that those that start wars should be sentenced to death for doing so. Particularly frivolous ones of aggression.
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