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Germany to send out survey, mandatory for males, about willingness to fight

by acadapter on 11/7/24, 6:04 PM with 8 comments

  • by fxtentacle on 11/7/24, 6:13 PM

    After all of their successes in making gender-neutral language mandatory in all government documents, I'm hoping that there'll be a feminist outrage about this. This should be gender-neutral, too, meaning mandatory for everyone.

    I mean it's just a mandatory paper questionnaire. There's no harm in asking young women about their opinion, too.

  • by bell-cot on 11/7/24, 6:47 PM

    Location, Location, Location:

    Germany, population ~82M, has about 180K active duty military

    Poland, population ~38M, has about 250K active duty military

    Finland designates >90% of its fit-for-service males (age 16-49) as military reservists

    (all per Wikipedia)

  • by gus_massa on 11/7/24, 8:48 PM

    I don't understand how can this work. Is it the shame of marking the "nein" checkbox?

  • by mistrial9 on 11/7/24, 6:14 PM

    must be filled out with two copies and the correct account details ?

  • by numewhodis on 11/7/24, 8:43 PM

    Despair.