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@fkamiah17 Not in the uk but military recruiting propaganda is ramped up here too...disgusting. "Kill your fellow human beings cuz it's hip and fun!"

@leguinian_utopia I'm pretty sure from what I've seen it's happening across quite a lot of Europe
I don't have a TV, so I don't see the ads, but I can imagine the glossy "ooh, war's such a big adventure, it's just like those video games you kids like" style.

@leguinian_utopia How are the students reacting? I assume there was a pro-Palestine movement on your campus last year, so I can't imagine it's going down that well.
Conscription is just around the corner.

@fkamiah17 Students often don't even have the tools to engage with challenging the establishment of the academia, but even if they're slow to mobilize sometimes, they tend to at least do *something*...mostly if someone eg. deans misuse their powers. So slowly but surely the solidarity is building, especially with how cross-mobilization is becoming a thing, we just need to make sure it doesn't fizzle out.

@leguinian_utopia I imagine there'll be a tipping point, and then everything will explode.

@fkamiah17 The biggest setback I see is that everything is usually centered around the latest most salient political offense and that kind of strangles building strong, long-lasting and intersecting networks of solidarity...and the culture of apathy too

@leguinian_utopia I hear you. It feels like the shortening of attention spans over the years, and the grinding down of expectations across all demographics, is going to play right into the hands of the fash.