Lol I'm not a "reactionary," I'm an honorably discharged Air Force veteran who actually knows what the fuck she's talking about If you don't think forcing marginalized kids under the authority of some almost certainly privileged/conservative boss wouldn't do harm you're a goofhttps://twitter.com/gnawb0ne/status/1226501525327032325 …
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Replying to @gnawb0ne
Dude don't waste my time with this deflection shit. When mandatory service is being promoted by a candidate who demonstrably adulates the military and its values there is NO QUESTION that its structure and philosophy would be adapted to any sort of program and run by the same ppl
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
look, fuck Pete, i just think that having a civilian conservation corps would be good, and that having a way for kids who might feel stuck would have an easy way out that doesn’t involve college or the military. reasonable people can disagree here, nbd.
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Replying to @gnawb0ne
You can have a civilian conservation corps without making it fundamentally required to participate under pain of being a functionally second-class citizen if you refuse And probably should
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
Just for giggles I went and actually read Pete’s policy outline on this. It’s not even mandatory- it’s just a massive expansion of Peace Corps and Americorps. So it’s both less offensive than you thought, and more useless than I thought.
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Replying to @gnawb0ne
Dude I know I don't need you to explain the proposal to me My opinion was not a consequence of being underinformed
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
SERVICE GUARANTEES CITIZENSHIP! 0% chance that an optional service for "non-military" is kept in place the next time we need people to invade a country for democracy and regime change. Imagine thinking that a guy with a resource map of Afghanistan in his living room is honest
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Well, draft registration for the event of an actual war is already the status quo, although certainly his vision of normalizing "national service" and making it a cultural "expectation" would make it politically much easier to activate the actual draft
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
Yes and no. People register in peace time if they are male 18-25. The military is federal. However, I 100% could see mayo Pete putting in a state grant implementation and all of a sudden high school kids in Georgia are rounding up immigrants to attend UGA on scholarship
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