Comments by "Luredreier" (@Luredreier) on "Combat Arms Channel"
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@stephenrohaim382 Okey, so you're complaining about the unions supporting the left wing political parties.
But hey, it's not like anyone is holding a gun to your head forcing you to join said unions.
And there are right wing and center-right unions out there even if they're few, and don't exist in all sectors.
But seriously, there's nothing stopping you from making one yourself.
As it is, the left wing political parties was created by these unions and other workers organizations as a alternative to armed conflict (the original plan, the one used in many other countries, causing the Russian revolution among other things).
And it's not corruption, but simply the political parties in question being a part of a bigger overall left wing movement.
Yes, there's tax breaks for the labour unions, but that's because that money is meant to be used on the workers in question and their interests.
The same tax breaks would apply to a right wing labour union if you created one.
Also, what is NHOs tax rate?
And of course LO and other unions are elected, by its members.
When you refrain from joining one of these organizations you vote against them, if you join one you vote for it.
Got any particular example of NGOs and corruption?
Yeah, sorry, but I'm just not seeing any proof of actual corruption here.
At most incompetence and rare individual cases.
As for the whole media and academia thing...
The political left has always been more open to change and new ideas.
While the right has tended towards just holding one idea and sticking to it regardless of what evidence there is pointing in the opposite direction.
So it's not really that weird that both the media and academia is closer aligned with these movements, simply because these movements are more ready to actually accept information from both the media and academia and make informed decisions about things.
While the right has argued for autoritarian measures with arguments about national security or preserving national values and religion etc, etc.
Something that doesn't really jam well with the media.
And there's the whole alt-right movement that essentially lives of "fake news"...
Some poor Indian or something somewhere makes a youtube video or something somewhere making a controversial claim that he or she knows will generate a lot of views by either the left or right, truth be damned, and then it starts making the rounds in these alt-right communities...
As for the academia, the right keeps wanting to curtail the freedom of these organizations and focus them on just creating a economic output, the exact fully educated people needed for the jobs that various companies need, instead of being research institutions that tries to improve the country as a whole, giving people the tools to understand the world around them and do some critical thinking.
That said, there's plenty of people in both of these groups supporting the liberals (center-right) too.
So it's not like that left bias is as strong as you're claiming.
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Remember, Ukraine is expecting a invasion from Russia.
And they're not a NATO country.
Their very independence is at stake.
Being reminded that joining the army might end your life might be a good point to make for some people, but for others it'll discourage them.
However that shovel...
By pointing to that it makes people think, even as they're doing everyday tasks.
Should I join the army and help defend us from Russia?
I might not be much good at actually killing someone.
But I can dig a hole, that's what I'm doing right now with this shovel.
Perhaps I should join. (etc).
So yeah, I totally get that one.
If our situation here in Norway was more desperate then that might have worked here too.
As for it being a bit too "extreme".
In a way that's good too.
It reminds people that they do not want their loved ones to experience this.
Also, remember that while you as a marine do have to defend yourself at times.
You're ultimately a offensive unit, a offensive weapon.
The regular infantery man however, specializes in defense above everything else.
They dig in, hold, then move and dig in again.
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Okey, so the thing about nordic armies.
First of all, we don't really have gung ho action crazed people here.
So instead of focusing on what the armed forces can offer you or what type of roles you have our ads tends to focus on what the armed forces are defending, the peace that we love so much, our freedom etc.
And yes, it's more generalized ads, because honestly we have conscriptions, so we just need people to be motivated to do their part for the army, show up in good shape and willing, and then you can be assigned to a speciality later, rather then signing up for anything in particular up front like in the US.
If you want to go to the army, navy, air force, special forces etc, it's all the same entity that you'd go to in order to get recruited.
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So, the Netherlands was occupied during WW2.
That's why the ministry of defense is just 75 years old.
WW2 ended ago today, when I write this comment.As for freedom...The Netherlands has struggled a lot with that.Their lands where a battleground between Romans and Germanic tribes.Then the Franks who took over after the vaccum left by the Romans in France and later also Germany and even Italy.The Franks where christians who defeated the people of what's today the Netherlands and forced their christianity onto them.Then after being defeated by the Franks the Netherlands ended up as a battlezone between the Danes and the Franks during the beginning of the viking age.The empire of the franks where splilt into three parts, a western part (the origine of what's today France), a eastern part (the origin of what's today Germany) and a central part (containing areas like the Netherlands, Italy, Belgium and so one and so forth...)Of course the eastern and western part ended up defeating and eating up the central part pretty fast...
The Netherlands ended up under the Hasburg dynasty, a family that ruled Spain and Austria among other things.When the Netherlands turned protestant they had to fight for freedom against the catholic Hasburgs...
And there's been so much conflict over that area and the rights of the people living there...
Religions wars and civil wars...
Dutch people have had to fight for their freedom for so, so long.
It's no wonder that talking about freedom is the main thing they're going for here.
Just like we in Norway have a army that argues that it's there to protect our peace.
Our army is there to avoid fighting by being a deterance.
Theirs is there to fight for freedom and international law.
They've been refugees.
They've been bullied by bigger nations.
We've been lucky to stay out of most wars, and we value just nature and serenity, but understand that we do have dangerous neighbours and we did get occupied during WW2 just like they where.
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