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Cake day: October 9th, 2023

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  • Slavery isn’t always life-long, and it isn’t always done to just one group. Indentured servitude and serfdom are forms of slavery. It’s forced labor against your will and with no way to avoid it if you’re subjected.

    Mandatory service means forcing you to work at the point of a gun.
    This sounds hyperbolic, but what happens when you refuse and simply want to keep living your life freely instead?
    You are given a prison sentence, and if you refuse that, in the last consequence, the state reserves the right to use deadly force to make you comply.

    You can ad-hominem every young person as useless basement-dweller, assign beautiful words to your forced labor, use bad comparisons, and pay people to do it.
    It doesn’t change the fact that you want to force people to work, and their only other option is prison (where they will also be forced to work) or death.








  • It’s an internal message. The German government just had 60 billion of their planned budget yanked away by a Supreme Court ruling. (They had planned to reroute unused money set aside for covid measures to the general budget. The court denied this, because our constitutional debt ceiling can only be ignored in an emergency, not for general spending)

    Now every department is facing harsh budget cuts and every minister tries to argue why the cuts shouldn’t hit their department.
    Pistorius is saying “if you cut my budget, you might as well start learning to speak Russian”.