• Rentlar@lemmy.ca
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    1 hour ago

    That training is funded from the Swiss military budget for the purpose of protecting the state of Switzerland? Suggesting that conscription, aka a mandatory military service term, is akin to a training program for stateless militias seems to me a bit of a stretch…

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      52 minutes ago

      If a fighting force assembles when its home country is attacked and disbands once they’re no longer being invaded, it hardly feels like “the military” at that point. That’s not how it works these days, at least in most places.

      I’m pro abolition of the state, but this comment thread had no mention of a stateless society.