In France, if a member of the Foreign Legion is wounded, they are automatically granted French citizenship. This is known in France as Français par le sang verse. French by spilled blood.
Why the US doesn’t have the same makes no sense. If you were a green card holder, and you served in the US military and were wounded, citizenship should be yours for the asking at any time. No need for any lengthy legal shit.
Great. Now nicknames will be illegal. No more Max or Jim or Bill. It’s either Maximillian or James or you’re fired (and no one cares about poor ol’ Bill).
He does. His father lived a damn long time and his grandfather only died when he died due to the Spanish flu during and after WW1.
The GOPers won’t assassinate him. He is too useful for them to want him dead. Steve Bannon made it clear that his interest in Trump is solely due to his unique ability to command such a following.
No one in the Republican party has even close to that kind of ability.
And Trump has been honing that ability ever since he was a kid. Countless people hated him back then. As a child his classmates couldn’t stand him, his teachers found him unbearable, and when he started in ‘business’ in the 70s writers of the period bashed him as a blowhard who can’t deliver anything near his lofty claims.
Yet for all that and despite a massive downturn and series of public humiliations in the late 80s and throughout the 90s, he somehow managed to cultivate the image of a successful businessman… despite having no business successes at all.
He was the perfect personification of what the libertarian movement wanted… wanting ‘not a politician, but a businessman’ for president. They got what they wanted but still thought the results were great despite it being a complete derailment of the US’s soft power in the world.
But he will still have enough people doing his bidding and will follow him to hell and stay there that he will sadly be idolized by millions for many, many years to come. Even going so far as to be a Reagan like figure despite being far, far worse and having no redeeming qualities as a human being whatsoever.
Kinda like Hitler, who held Germans in absolute contempt by the end of the war and refused to allow Berlin to be evacuated as the Soviets invaded. He and other top ranking Nazis even conceded that they were wrong about Germans being the master race and thus deserved the same kind of extermination that they had planned and were carrying out during the war.
With that in mind it legit makes you wonder why the fuck anyone would still admire Hitler… but I did have a Nazi tell me that it is because he made them feel supported and special, so they followed him into death and suffering and they refused to believe he was anything other than their savior. He said the first part, I added the second.
I think the Republicans personally hate him. His only use is as a charismatic rabble rouser. Without him they will lose the only guy truly able to get their movement together.
Sadly there have been people who lived to be 99 or 100 while having remarkably unhealthy lifestyles.
Jesus fucking Christ. America during ww2 would have lost badly if this type of shit was going on back then. From day 1 all countries on the allied side mass employed women in roles previously held exclusively by men.
Look up the WASPs and the WAVES during ww2. Not to mention the sheer amount of women working in manufacturing and transport and other stuff. Rosey the riveter was real. Marlin Monroe, one of the sexiest women of all time was one such gal during the war.
And don’t get me started on munitions plants. Women were employed in manufacturing high explosives from day 1 (there are photographs from the 1890s showing women mixing nitroglycerin and diatomaceous earth to make dynamite, and the manufacture of blasting caps, the stuff using the most sensitive explosives, was the sole domain of women for a long time). WW2 Orientation films from Canada show this.
That woman EARNED her position. She is not DEI. But Pete Hegseth IS DEI.
The only word in my head to describe this is ‘idiot’.
I remember looking at a documentary about America in the early colonial days in the 17th century. Apparently it took a while for racism to truly become a thing, and the absolute first black people to come in were also indentured servants. After racism started becoming codified at one point they reenslaved some blacks who were freed or never slaves to begin with.
What we are seeing is the precedent that was set back then being reused. Pulling absolute random people and just selling them into slavery.
It also makes sense that most of the people have no criminal records. People who are violent criminals, or have a violent criminal history, are often difficult to control. By getting people who have no criminal history and treating them like murderers and drug smugglers, makes it easy to dehumanize them and demonize them but also still easy to control.
You know what is so ironic about this? Right wing jackasses were talking about bring oppressed by transpeople and how they would be arrested and jailed for pronoun errors, but in all the years of the laws being in effect there was not a single arrest of such a thing.
But now within barely a few months of their shit being in power they actually do all the shit they accused others of wanting to do. It really was projection all along.
Just toss his ass in prison already. He should spend the rest of his life there, and after he dies in prison they should send his body to Romania to buried in some prison graveyard there, symbolic of how he tried to escape justice there, but that is where his body will rest.
Anyone who mentions Hillary and her emails after signalgate and this fucking shit needs to have their ass whooped.
He was always like this, BTW. Even back in the 90s his relatives wanted him to stay out of the spotlight because of his poor social skills.
Fuck him indeed. He got what was coming to him. I had no idea who he was until he was shot and I instantly hated him.
I don’t think he was a billionaire. But his job was a nasty one that did please billionaires.
Without logistics the infantry cannot win anything.
Lend lease really helped with mechanization. The jeeps and trucks they had were indispensable for the war effort. We often talk about guns and bombs, but people don’t realize how important transportation and heavy machinery is.
That is ww1. Not world war 2. The whole ‘wait for your comrade to die and take his weapons’ did not happen during ww2. It did happen in ww1.
Also they would take heavy casualties. Use them as pure cannon fodder.
They are no different than slaves to him. Slaves to be used and discarded once they are done. This has actually been the norm throughout history. It is why very few people wanted to be soldiers in the past. They weren’t respected, and weren’t well paid and weren’t treated well afterward.
The whole idea of giving ex-soldiers benefits after the war is a fairly new idea in history. Historically the only people who did it were the Romans. If you were a roman legionaire and served 20 years you were given a plot of land. If you weren’t a Roman citizen you got that at the end, too.
But that was a uniquely Roman thing. For the most part if soldiers did get something out of war it was due to plunder. That was actually the principle motivation for many common people who went to war.