No that’s exactly what’s happened.

I said Facebook because we know they’re doing it and you’d still have to actually prove that case.

The argument here is more along the lines of, “you can’t make a law that defines something as murder only when I do it.”

Legally it is a very good argument. A law targeting a single company in name or effect is literally unconstitutional. It’s called a “Bill of Attainder”.

The counter argument is indicting Facebook because they never stopped selling information directly to the CCP.

He did. But the proponents of Greater Israel do actually include Lebanon. They also include Jordan, Syria, parts of Egypt, Parts of Saudi Arabia, and parts of Iraq.

This ideology is dominant in the ruling party of Israel.

So that kid was Hezbollah too then?

What you’re missing is that PugJesus is trying to push the narrative that anyone unwilling to vote for modern Democrats is an accelerationist, just like a bad German.

Yes accelerationism is bad.

No that doesn’t mean you automatically get voters.

Yeah I found that out and was flabbergasted. They aren’t even trying to run in congressional seats. It’s all this attempt to jump straight to state and presidential office.

Horseshoe theory is shit.

Just to be clear.

Enemy action is not what horseshoe theory describes either though.

Yeah we lost 2 people to mental health. It’s a big stress test and some people are going to have hidden things.

Yes, 11% are because of weight. However you have to very very overweight, like 300 pounds, before they don’t just give you a waiver and a weight loss program at the replacement company everyone goes through before basic. Same with convictions and alcohol issues. In that age group alcohol issues usually means an under age drinking ticket. Which is a waiver. Alcoholism, if it’s on your record somewhere, is waiverable after some years dry. Most people with convictions actually have a single drug possession charge which is also a waiver. Medical is a lot harder but there’s millions of kids who are ADHD kids and they just get a waiver for their Ritalin use.

The 70% percent number is strictly without waivers involved. Most of them are very easy waivers to get, and in the case of a draft they’d have a standing waiver for draftees. Nobody is going to be 4F for carrying some chub through high school.

The study they’re referencing is specifically 17-24 but they’re also severely misquoting it. Which isn’t surprising because conservative news sources spent a lot of time trying to use it to paint our youth as useless layabouts.

The topline of the study is specifically the percentage of 17-24 year olds who can join without a waiver. There is no “beyond a waiver” category in the study. Surely some of them are beyond a waiver, but the study does not make that distinction.

And it straight up says the reduction of availability is because of an increase in standards, not a decrease in the population’s capacity.

Something like 70% of all Americans are unable to be drafted

Under the widest interpretation of the strict medical rules. This has been blown way out of proportion. Also much of the number is supposedly excluded under the height and weight standards which we know don’t even correlate with PT scores outside of run time. And god forbid we have people who run their 2 mile a tad slower when we know combat is sprinting, and sprinting is muscle.

Rant aside, busting tape isn’t even disqualifying. Which is why that number is misinformation at best.

We had recruiting problems because we had unrealistic medical standards. For decades people just lied about what they could. Then we decided to use a system that could actually check the records of recruits.

Once waivers were made easily available, instead of months of admin work, recruiting goals were magically met again.

I fought Iraq in 2003 but the first president I could vote for was Bush v Kerry.

If that doesn’t do it I don’t know what will.

Also, please stop reminding me how old I am.

Many of them are misled. You can be born into a completely alternate reality with the way conservative culture has been cutting itself off from news and media.

I need this as a t-shirt for the next concert I go to.

There’s a lot of punishment that doesn’t show up in the top line in the military. She may be flagged to lose her security clearance, (dishonesty, incompetence, and corruption) which would be the end of her career. They may also outright flag her as not eligible for re-enlistment. She’s certainly not ever going to live that down and it’s not a counseling form that disappears in six months. I’d be very surprised if she ever promotes again.

All that said, where I was, in the infantry, lying to your commander like that, while endangering the unit, would be either an Other Than Honorable discharge or a Big Chicken Dinner. (Bad Conduct discharge, do not pass go, do not bother with the VA, do not collect retirement, hope future employers never ask about your discharge)