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Tag: the draft
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Chrissy Houlahan, a US Congresswoman whose parents were Jewish refugees from Ukraine who is very eager to have young Americans registered for the draft. (Image source: Wikipedia)
Chrissy Houlahan, a US Congresswoman whose parents were Jewish refugees from Ukraine who is very eager to have young Americans registered for the draft. (Image source: Wikipedia)
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The House of Representatives passed a bill earlier this month that will require all men aged 18-26 to be automatically registered for conscription into the military. The bill was spearheaded by Representative Chrissy Houlahan, a Democrat from Pennsylvania whose parents came to the United States as Jewish refugees from Lviv, Ukraine in the aftermath of the Second World War. The bill doesn’t officially change government policy, as all male American citizens aged 18-26 were required to register for the draft even before this new bill was passed, and by itself may be unremarkable or merely symbolic, but the circumstances surrounding it may suggest that the US is planning to escalate the situation in Ukraine, the Middle East, and/or Taiwan. (more…)
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1,831 wordsAfter talking about mass deportations of illegal immigrants and describing them as “poisoning the blood of our country” to the dismay of many an elderly NPR listener, Donald Trump has now proposed giving a green card to anyone who graduates from college, even with only a two-year Associate’s degree. (more…)
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5,525 words- Only 23.1% of all respondents and 30.2% of Republican respondents can think of a concrete example of Israel aiding American interests off the top of their heads.
- 68.4% of respondents oppose direct intervention in the Gaza conflict with airstrikes or boots on the ground.
- 25.7% of respondents aged 18-29 would oppose a draft through peaceful protest, and 16.9% through non-violent civil disobedience.
- 4.4% of respondents aged 18-29 said they would oppose a draft through violence against government property, and 4.4% through violence against government officials.
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1,516 wordsIn a 180-degree reversal after years of celebrating Bio-Leninist rejects, the US Army recently released a recruitment video featuring white chads jumping out of an airplane. Emma, their previously-lauded girl with two moms from California, is nowhere to be seen — presumably because a real war is brewing. (more…)
