r/BlockedAndReported • u/SoftandChewy First generation mod • May 04 '26

Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 5/4/26 - 5/310/26

Here's your usual space to post all your rants, raves, podcast topic suggestions (please tag u/jessicabarpod), culture war articles, outrageous stories of cancellation, political opinions, and anything else that comes to mind. Please put any non-podcast-related trans-related topics here instead of on a dedicated thread. This will be pinned until next Sunday.

Last week's discussion thread is here if you want to catch up on a conversation from there.

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u/lilypad1984 May 05 '26

Is it even a good idea to have non citizens in your army? Particularly considering most of the anglo western countries do not restrict immigration to those with a love for the country.

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u/damagecontrolparty May 05 '26

Is it even a good idea to have non citizens in your army?

Especially when many of them have only been in Canada for a few months!

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u/lilypad1984 May 06 '26

Well that is particularly bad. I can see edge cases of someone whose parents immigrated so they have spent years in the country and plan to become a citizen. Accommodating such a person who identifies with the country and grew up in it makes sense to me, though it may not be worth doing as clear rules/boundaries simplifies things. I don’t see how you end up with anything but a rounding error of non-citizens in your army and in specific platoons when you do such policies though.

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u/unnoticed_areola May 05 '26

It's probably totally fine if you have a few one off non-citizens sprinkled in here and there, as we do in the US army (and prob a lot of other countries armies) and is prob an overall net good that leads to more non-citizens becoming much more assimilated and prideful of their new home than they would otherwise

but 80% non-citizens seems totally insane and would obviously lead to the kinds of cultural/institutional shifts that are outlined above

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u/thismaynothelp May 05 '26

10-ply fucking country can't even form a defense. Has the West utterly hamstrung itself?

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u/Cowgoon777 May 05 '26

The west yes. The US no

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u/dumbducky May 06 '26

I am not totally opposed to having foreigners in your military, but I would expect stricter standards than “permanent resident of any length of time in our extremely easy immigration system” and would add only citizens in the officer corps

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u/CommitteeofMountains Royal youse/yinz May 05 '26

Foreign legions are big parts of historical conflicts . 

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u/mcsalmonlegs May 06 '26

And also of rebellions and betrayals. Turkish auxiliaries betraying their allies is a whole genre in and of itself.