Things are going the right way :D

[Nimos]

So just read that Russia wants to add military training to the curriculum in their schools, what a good idea. I know that Poland has done the same.

If there is anything the world needs at the moment, it is to teach children the important value of military training. You never know when you are going to need the skill of being able to fire an assault rifle

The chances of this world ever getting any better seems to get worse day by day, people (world's leaders) are more interested in killing and exploiting each other than solving problems. The chance of ever dealing with the climate issue is a joke at this point.

Russia reintroduce 'basic military training' to teach pupils how to use assault rifles
Russia is reportedly reintroducing “basic military training” to the school curriculum from next year teaching young children how to assemble automatic rifles in a return to “Soviet-era school classes”. Boys and girls in Russian schools will be taught how to “get to grips with assault rifles”, according to a Russian newspaper, in a move that has divided opinions among locals. Reading out an extract from the paper, BBC Russia correspondent Steve Rosenberg reported that one Russian mother supported the move because it was important to be “prepared for the reality of today”, while another Muscovite said there was “no place” for military drills in schools and that they should be a place of “peace and happiness”.

Russia set to teach schoolchildren how to assemble assault weapons

 

[Revoltingest]

I keep hearing about the rich Russian culture.
(And Putin says Ukraine has no culture.)
What I see of this Russian "culture" is disgusting,
eg, longing for return to Soviet greatness & empire,
invasion, death, corruption, alcoholism, blind patriotism.

 

[Aštra’el]

I absolutely approve. I would see this implemented in American schools as well.

 

[Debater Slayer]

I absolutely approve. I would see this implemented in American schools as well.

So teaching children about gender issues is "grooming," but teaching them how to use deadly weapons or about military doctrine is okay.

It's always important to listen to people when they reveal exactly what their values are.

 

[metis]

I absolutely approve. I would see this implemented in American schools as well.

Oh sure, all we need are more dead children.

 

[exchemist]

So just read that Russia wants to add military training to the curriculum in their schools, what a good idea. I know that Poland has done the same.

If there is anything the world needs at the moment, it is to teach children the important value of military training. You never know when you are going to need the skill of being able to fire an assault rifle

The chances of this world ever getting any better seems to get worse day by day, people (world's leaders) are more interested in killing and exploiting each other than solving problems. The chance of ever dealing with the climate issue is a joke at this point.

Russia reintroduce 'basic military training' to teach pupils how to use assault rifles
Russia is reportedly reintroducing “basic military training” to the school curriculum from next year teaching young children how to assemble automatic rifles in a return to “Soviet-era school classes”. Boys and girls in Russian schools will be taught how to “get to grips with assault rifles”, according to a Russian newspaper, in a move that has divided opinions among locals. Reading out an extract from the paper, BBC Russia correspondent Steve Rosenberg reported that one Russian mother supported the move because it was important to be “prepared for the reality of today”, while another Muscovite said there was “no place” for military drills in schools and that they should be a place of “peace and happiness”.

Russia set to teach schoolchildren how to assemble assault weapons

This is just another stunt by Putin, to instil in the Russian population fear of attack from the evil democracies in the West and thereby try to bolster nationalistic feelings of support for his failing invasion, now that the conscript deaths are mounting. He'll be handing out gas masks and radiation pills next.

All part of his domestic narrative of Mother Russia being under existential threat. Hysterical lies of course, but some poor saps will believe it.

 

[Father Heathen]

What I see of this Russian "culture" is disgusting,

They send their poorly trained, poorly equipped young men to die in droves. They abandon their dead to fertilize Ukraine fields. When their soldiers aren't raping civilians they rape each other. Their regime is corrupt and repressive; those who cross them tend to fall out of windows or down a fight of stairs. They persecute LGBT. Countless war crimes, Human rights violations, etc.

And yet some in the west still find them admirable.

 

[Father Heathen]

So teaching children about gender issues is "grooming," but teaching them how to use deadly weapons or about military doctrine is okay.

It's always important to listen to people when they reveal exactly what their values are.

It's only "grooming" when children learn about things they don't like.

 

[Revoltingest]

They send their poorly trained, poorly equipped young men to die in droves. They abandon their dead to fertilize Ukraine fields. When their soldiers aren't raping civilians they rape each other. Their regime is corrupt and repressive; those who cross them tend to fall out of windows or down a fight of stairs. They persecute LGBT. Countless war crimes, Human rights violations, etc.

And yet some in the west still find them admirable.

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**** Putin.
**** Russia.
Let Russian soldiers *** in droves.

 

[Debater Slayer]

They send their poorly trained, poorly equipped young men to die in droves. They abandon their dead to fertilize Ukraine fields. When their soldiers aren't raping civilians they rape each other. Their regime is corrupt and repressive; those who cross them tend to fall out of windows or down a fight of stairs. They persecute LGBT. Countless war crimes, Human rights violations, etc.

And yet some in the west still find them admirable.

I think people should also note that the above are symptoms of Putin's regime and don't necessarily reflect on the whole Russian population, which, like any other, includes good and bad people.

 

[Revoltingest]

I think people should also note that the above are symptoms of Putin's regime and don't necessarily reflect on the whole Russian population, which, like any other, includes good and bad people.

Not all.
But most.
Russia Re-Elects Putin

 

[Debater Slayer]

Not all.
But most.
Russia Re-Elects Putin

We've been over this before. I absolutely don't believe that "election" numbers announced under an oppressive regime like Russia's can be taken as accurately reflecting the will of the people.

 

[Revoltingest]

We've been over this before. I absolutely don't believe that "election" numbers announced under an oppressive regime like Russia's can be taken as accurately reflecting the will of the people.

It's still a pretty overwhelming majority,
even with coercion.
To find their culture disgusting doesn't
mean that every person is.

 

[Mock Turtle]

So just read that Russia wants to add military training to the curriculum in their schools, what a good idea. I know that Poland has done the same.

If there is anything the world needs at the moment, it is to teach children the important value of military training. You never know when you are going to need the skill of being able to fire an assault rifle

The chances of this world ever getting any better seems to get worse day by day, people (world's leaders) are more interested in killing and exploiting each other than solving problems. The chance of ever dealing with the climate issue is a joke at this point.

Russia reintroduce 'basic military training' to teach pupils how to use assault rifles
Russia is reportedly reintroducing “basic military training” to the school curriculum from next year teaching young children how to assemble automatic rifles in a return to “Soviet-era school classes”. Boys and girls in Russian schools will be taught how to “get to grips with assault rifles”, according to a Russian newspaper, in a move that has divided opinions among locals. Reading out an extract from the paper, BBC Russia correspondent Steve Rosenberg reported that one Russian mother supported the move because it was important to be “prepared for the reality of today”, while another Muscovite said there was “no place” for military drills in schools and that they should be a place of “peace and happiness”.

Russia set to teach schoolchildren how to assemble assault weapons

We did this when I was a kid - with catapults and peashooters - but on a very informal basis.

 

[Debater Slayer]

It's still a pretty overwhelming majority,
even with coercion.

Those are most likely fake numbers. In many such dictatorships, "high numbers" of votes are announced by the state even when a lot of people don't vote.

These nuances are unfamiliar to a lot of people living in relatively free democracies, but it's important to be aware of them before painting a population with a broad brush based on the actions of an unelected tyrant.

 

[Revoltingest]

Those are most likely fake numbers. In many such dictatorships, "high numbers" of votes are announced by the state even when a lot of people don't vote.

These nuances are unfamiliar to a lot of people living in relatively free democracies, but it's important to be aware of them before painting a population with a broad brush based on the actions of an unelected tyrant.

OK.
I still find Russian culture disgusting.
Exceptions of some duly noted.

 

[Debater Slayer]

OK.
I still find Russian culture disgusting.
Exceptions of some duly noted.

I would find it disgusting too if I believed it was mostly or entirely limited to the actions of Putin's regime, but just like China, I believe the country itself has a rich, long history that extends far beyond the tyrants currently in charge of Russia.

 

[Revoltingest]

I would find it disgusting too if I believed it was mostly or entirely limited to the actions of Putin's regime, but just like China, I believe the country itself has a rich, long history that extends far beyond the tyrants currently in charge of Russia.

Rich long histories can become lost to the modern world.
Countries are what they are.

 

[Twilight Hue]

I absolutely approve. I would see this implemented in American schools as well.

It already is, or was...

It's called ROTC.

 

[Nimos]

This is just another stunt by Putin, to instil in the Russian population fear of attack from the evil democracies in the West and thereby try to bolster nationalistic feelings of support for his failing invasion, now that the conscript deaths are mounting. He'll be handing out gas masks and radiation pills next.

All part of his domestic narrative of Mother Russia being under existential threat. Hysterical lies of course, but some poor saps will believe it.

I think it's more about the mentality that one instills in a nation. Hitlerjugend was also just some kids running around playing soldiers and scouts, nothing wrong with that. Sure it will not have any impact on Ukraine as such, but over the long run, as this becomes the norm, the training might expand maybe they are taught other "important" things.

People and whole nations are fairly easily brainwashed/forced into submission we have seen countless of examples of that.