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 @Nymphomachy
Mandatory service basically mentally broke an Israeli guy I knew. Also I'll bet that college enrollment means exemption, or paying off a doctor for a note means exemption. So it only applies to poor people. Seems like Pete's trying to get more PoCs in the army and in prison.
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Replying to @JabberinJay
It'll only apply to poor people and basically any extremely dogmatic religious group will get an exemption. Scientologists will get in on the action and figure out a way to use the mandatory service to funnel high school graduates into their org. It's just an immensely bad idea.
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @JabberinJay
I mean, I don't think "exemption" would be a thing under his plan, he can't make it legally mandatory because that's unconstitutional under the 13th Amendment
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I don't see how that matters; laws are not exactly holding the government back these days.
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Yeah but his plan says it's not mandatory
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BetaDecayPlus and
I’m confused about what the proposal is then. We already have optional military service.
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Replying to @alexdodge @BetaDecayPlus and
He wants to take existing institutions like the Peace Corps and Americorps and bundle them together with the military as one general concept of "National Service" and make it an absolute guarantee that anyone who chooses to sign up when they turn 18 will be accepted
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He hopes that by making it so that anyone who wants to sign up can sign up, that will make not signing up a stigmatized choice
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