boem@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoGermany may introduce conscription for all 18-year-oldswww.telegraph.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square125fedilinkarrow-up1352arrow-down117cross-posted to: worldnewsnonus
arrow-up1335arrow-down1external-linkGermany may introduce conscription for all 18-year-oldswww.telegraph.co.ukboem@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square125fedilinkcross-posted to: worldnewsnonus
minus-squarefunkless_eck@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·7 months agoit’s interesting to me that you see childhood obesity as “an absence of military training” and not such things as lack of support for health education in schools lack of health meal choices for school cafeterias lack of free support materials for parents subsidies and support for low income families to get access to fresh and healthy foods tariffs on high fat and high sugar foods regulation on grocery store prices more free activities for young people subsidized sports programs and facilities etc etc “oh that’s expensive” the us military spends $64,000 per second every second.
minus-squareWanderer@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·7 months agoI didn’t say that. I say conscription would help these overweight people and it would help in other ways. Then I also said that getting to that point is a failing of the state. You don’t know where I stand on any of those points because we weren’t talking about it. I don’t really care what the US military spends per second.
it’s interesting to me that you see childhood obesity as “an absence of military training” and not such things as
“oh that’s expensive”
the us military spends $64,000 per second every second.
I didn’t say that. I say conscription would help these overweight people and it would help in other ways.
Then I also said that getting to that point is a failing of the state.
You don’t know where I stand on any of those points because we weren’t talking about it.
I don’t really care what the US military spends per second.