I was listening to a podcast today or yesterday talking about huge recruiting shortfalls in 3 of 4 military branches in the US. The biggest factor was that the available pool of recruits are 75% ineligible for a variety of reasons, but the biggest factor is past/current drug use. The most common drug: cannabis. Even if someone has used it only once, even if they just tried it, they are ineligible for military service.

It seems pretty foolish, in the biggest recruitment shortfall in American history, to discount your largest possible pool of recruits just because they might’ve smoked a doobie once.

you, Kant, always have what you want.

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and if someone came there speaking against Trump, there’d be bomb threats, and people with tiki torches out front wearing hoods and chanting “they will not replace us”

He shouldn’t be so sure that he’ll win Florida in this election cycle, either. Not to mention the congressional seats are pretty wishy-washy.

I was referring to the lemmy devs, but ok, I guess

Perhaps you should report this as a bug to the devs. Otherwise, this was an interesting read.

Lmao, WHAT‽

they can also impeach the president, and, in fact, impeached Trump twice, for all the good it did.

speak for yourself. i certainly didn’t.

Yeah, I remember the part about you saying you were leaving. Apparently, you had another episode of amnesia.

If you’ve suddenly been struck by amnesia, you can just scroll up and review your past comments.

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Right, it’s everyone else’s fault but Netanyahu’s

Ah, so now it’s my fault, too, eh? Lmao

There are Republicans in Congress voting to authorize those packages, too.

And still no Republicans calling for peace or trying to get Netanyahu to accept the terms of the peace deals, nor Republicans decrying the genocide in Gaza or the West Bank…

The US has presented 3 separate peace deals that everyone has accepted but Netanyahu has sabotaged at the last minute. That is not the fault of “the Dems”.

At the same time, Republicans have yet to do anything but cheer on the genocide in Gaza and the violence in the West Bank.

I would be surprised if there weren’t well placed Russian influence in most conservative media in the United States.