Those working in industries vital to war production and agriculture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_Training_and_Service_Act_of_1940#Class_II:_Deferred_because_of_occupation

Into 1943 voluntary enlistment for young men was disallowed to prevent those with valuable skillsets from going into the military.

Ernest said he was handing over the reigns to someone else soon. I’d like to give them a chance before I bail on Kbin. I really like Kbin.

I’m gonna give Kbin a little while longer to get its shit together, but if need be, I’ll swap to Lemmy.world in the near future.

I only clarify because in a situation where every able body is fighting you’ve already lost, there needs to be logistics, maintaining utilities, growing food, etc

Conscription is actually a way to ensure that. In the Ukrainian War, as well as at least the US during WW2 (I’m less familiar with other countries’ conscription systems during WW2), conscription is used to prioritize those with skills which are not economically vital during wartime - during WW2, even, some skilled workers weren’t even allowed to volunteer, much less be conscripted, for military service.

Both of them have upvoted posts in the past 15 hours.

https://ibb .co/GsV1znm

Some casual history promotion

!RoughRomanMemes@kbin.social

!HistoryMemes@kbin.social

!HistoryArtifacts@kbin.social

!HistoryDrawings@kbin.social

!HistoryRuins@kbin.social

!historyporn@lemmy.world

I’m not. I’m extremely anti-Israel, but not supporting a Trump presidency makes me pro-genocide in the eyes of accelerationists.

“Cool place, like a bunch of connected forums, but avoid the .ml instances and Hexbear”

You are the premier genocide denier I’ve run into on this platform

Because I want less genocide instead of more? How curious.

Hell yeah!

I’m not into politics myself and it drives me crazy that we can’t rely on fine communities because they are on instances defederated by big instances because of their political views.

I didn’t realize genocide apologia and using admin powers to push it was such a minor concern.

Marxist-Leninists in an overwhelming majority oppose the current Russian government.

Would you like to remind me what the second largest party in Russia is, currently? And what their stance is on the current government’s actions?

That, of course, is not even getting into all of the “BUT THE WEST PROVOKED THEM” apologia for Ukrainian genocide by Western MLs.

Tankies are a no-go for me as I am Ukrainian. Even mainstream leftists, who generally have good ideas, like Yanis Varoufakis, turn into complete degenerates when it comes to NATO or Russian imperialism. And Varoufakis is just the tip of the iceberg.

Based Zizek will always be around

My experience has similarities and differences - I don’t find .ml users as a whole to be shitty, but if there’s a shitty user, chances are pretty good that they’re from .ml rather than one of the smaller instances, World, or Kbin. And they’re almost always evangelical in nature - as a former evangelical, I recognize the type. The preconception of ultimate and indisputable correctness - they’re often willing to explain and honestly discuss their views, but not acknowledge any serious possible fault or flaw in them. The scriptures are holy, after all.

They swapped the opiate of the people for some synthetic Stalinist stuff.

Are people actually that serious about defederating from Lemmy.ml?

Yes. I avoid Lemmy.ml communities like the plague, but because I don’t feel there’s intentional hostility from the community towards outsiders, unlike Grad or Hexbear, I don’t think I’m in favor. I do understand the underlying thought process. It’s difficult to ‘join hands’ with a community, however otherwise normal, which is run by genocide deniers who very clearly use their power over the community to push a narrative of genocide denial.

I do hope he eventually finds a balance that works both for him and for us. I greatly prefer Kbin, when it’s, y’know, up.

Related: I genuinely feel that ml being the official or at least de-facto flagship instance is turning people away.

I had actually considered Lemmy before The Great Reddit Exodus. Lemmy.ml turned me off from that.

Now we have Kbin (you can make it, my love!) and Lemmy.world, and I feel much better.

Yeah, I made a specific point of avoiding participation in any .ml groups for that very reason.

I’m just trying to remind them they aren’t welcome in decent places. I wouldn’t go to .ml or worse, Hexbear or grad, if you paid me.

Gish gallop. It’s a common tactic used by authoritarians with no real arguments.