kravietz 🦇Dec 7

A truly perfect composition in the context of #pacifism - what could go wrong here? 🤔

  • young, posh girls posing with pacifist banners and friendly smiles somewhere in #Germany
  • a column of aggressive middle-aged, likely drunk men driving old cars with with sticker “TO BERLIN FOR GERMAN WOMEN!!!” somewhere in #Russia

Banners in German:

  • Peace instead of war, Freedom instead of compulsory military service
  • You won’t get our brothers!
Show threadDCoder 🇱🇹❤🇺🇦Dec 7
@kravietz
Sergej Sumlenny wrote about this just yesterday: https://bsky.app/profile/sumlenny.bsky.social/post/3m7dtkaxmks2z
Sergej Sumlenny (@sumlenny.bsky.social)

In Germany, school teens go for a "school strike" against govt plans to introduce a system for possible future conscription (we don't have conscription in Germany anymore, cancelled by Merkel). The "school strikes" were tested by Pali-Greta, and are a tool of mass destruction 1/x

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Show threadkravietz 🦇Dec 7
@dcoderlt Thanks, I just saw the photos posted somewhere (X or Telegram) but he wrote quite an analysis!
Show threadifraudingDec 7
@kravietz @dcoderlt
The analysis has low quality parts, though.
Calling pupils' protests "mass destruction weapons" is a laughable exaggeration, esp. given that climate strikes had very little longterm policy effects.
Even if one argues that means that "it destroys peoples minds" (and russiatiktokinfluence is behind all this) the effect cant be measured in polls right now.
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@kravietz @dcoderlt

Also, I'd argue the "we don't fight your wars" motto comes from a more universalistic worldview that many young people have.
They assume (and somewhat simplify) that warmongering elites™ (on all/both sides) want people to fight for a propagated cause.
Therefore they assume that "on the other side also no one want's to fight" and so these wars should be "no one's war".

Dec 7 at 1:48pmWeb