Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 month ago‘We’ll die before enlisting’: Ultra-Orthodox Israelis storm army basethecradle.coexternal-linkmessage-square81fedilinkarrow-up1209arrow-down12
arrow-up1207arrow-down1external-link‘We’ll die before enlisting’: Ultra-Orthodox Israelis storm army basethecradle.coEvilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square81fedilink
minus-squareJusticelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 month agoBecause the “rather die” is an exaggeration people use to mean they really really do not want to do something Example: “I’d rather die than eat British food.” It could be meant literally and in earnest, but I doubt it
minus-squareEelBolshevikism [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·edit-21 month agoin the article they’re apparently using “we will die and not enlist” as a protest chant which feels far more specific than that
Because the “rather die” is an exaggeration people use to mean they really really do not want to do something
Example: “I’d rather die than eat British food.”
It could be meant literally and in earnest, but I doubt it
in the article they’re apparently using “we will die and not enlist” as a protest chant which feels far more specific than that