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Congress will declare the state of war which is their constitutional power to do so.

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SEC. 1250A. LIMITATION ON WITHDRAWAL FROM THE NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION.

(a) OPPOSITION OF CONGRESS TO SUSPENSION, TERMINATION, DENUNCIATION, OR WITHDRAWAL FROM NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY.— The President shall not suspend, terminate, denounce, or withdraw the United States from the North Atlantic Treaty, done at Wash- ington, DC, April 4, 1949, except by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, provided that two-thirds of the Senators present concur, or pursuant to an Act of Congress.

(b) LIMITATION ON THE USE OF FUNDS.—No funds authorized or appropriated by any Act may be used to support, directly or indirectly, any decision on the part of any United States Govern- ment official to suspend, terminate, denounce, or withdraw the United States from the North Atlantic Treaty, done at Washington, DC, April 4, 1949, except by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, provided that two-thirds of the Senators present concur, or pursuant to an Act of Congress.

© NOTIFICATION OF TREATY ACTION.—

(1) CONSULTATION.—Prior to the notification described in paragraph (2), the President shall consult with the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives in relation to any initiative to suspend, terminate, denounce, or withdraw the United States from the North Atlantic Treaty.

(2) NOTIFICATION.—The President shall notify the Com- mittee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives in writing of any deliberation or decision to suspend, terminate, denounce, or withdraw the United States from the North Atlantic Treaty, as soon as possible but in no event later than 180 days prior to taking such action.

(d) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize, imply, or otherwise indicate that the Presi- dent may suspend, terminate, denounce, or withdraw from any treaty to which the Senate has provided its advice and consent without the advice and consent of the Senate to such act or pursuant to an Act of Congress.

(e) SEVERABILITY.—If any provision of this section or the application of such provision is held by a Federal court to be unconstitutional, the remainder of this subtitle and the application of such provisions to any other person or circumstance shall not be affected thereby.

(f) DEFINITIONS.—In this subtitle, the terms ‘‘withdrawal’’, ‘‘denunciation’’, ‘‘suspension’’, and ‘‘termination’’ have the meaning given the terms in the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, concluded at Vienna May 23, 1969.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/2670/text

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Read your own constitution.

He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; …

Congress, not the President, has the power to declare war.

The Congress shall have Power To… To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;

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If you watch their hearings and assemblies a lot of Congress appears to be focused on trying to get sound bytes and Tik Tok clips out of what they say. The clips just seem so weird and forced when seen in context of what the topic of discussion is.

We didn’t elect people to be actors on the clock, please make law and talk to the press later.

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DoT has seen an explosive increase in budget by 66% since 2019. I am not convinced that a 3% cut to stem the deficit is devastating.

I don’t deny that American transportation and logistics are aging and need reform but this economic and high interest climate doesn’t seem like the best time to go all in.

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This is a ridiculously off target response

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OK then.

Let’s sit down and read the actual amendment instead of taking out of context a section of some news quote which is likeky already out of context by said news before you shortened it.

https://www.congress.gov/congressional-report/118th-congress/house-report/142

  1. An Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Crane of Arizona or His Designee, Debatable for 10 Minutes

At the end of subtitle G of title X, insert the following:

SEC. 5__. PROTECTION OF IDEOLOGICAL FREEDOM.

Section 2001 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:

© Protection of Ideological Freedom.–(1) No employee of the Department of Defense or of a military department, including any member of the armed forces, may compel, teach, instruct, or train any member of the armed forces, whether serving on active duty, serving in a reserve component, attending a military service academy, or attending a course conducted by a military department pursuant to a Reserve Officer Corps Training program, to believe any of the politically-based concepts referred to in paragraph (4).

(2) No employee of the Department of Defense or of a military department, including any member of the armed forces may be compelled to declare a belief in, or adherence to, or participate in training or education of any kind that promotes any of the politically-based concepts referred to in paragraph (4) a condition of recruitment, retention, promotion, transfer, assignment, or other favorable personnel action.

(3) The Department of Defense and the military departments may not promote race-based or ideological concepts that promote the differential treatment of any individual or groups of individuals based on race, color, sex, or national origin, including any of politically-based concepts referred to in paragraph (4).

(4) A politically-based concept referred to in this paragraph is any of the following:

      (A) Members of one race, color, sex, or national 
    origin are morally superior to members of another race, 
    color, sex, or national origin.

      (B) An individual, by virtue of his or her race, 
    color, sex, or national origin, is inherently racist, 
    sexist, or oppressive, whether consciously or 
    unconsciously.

      (C) An individual's moral character or status as 
    either privileged or oppressed is necessarily 
    determined by his or her race, color, sex, or national 
    origin.

      (D) Members of one race, color, sex, or national 
    origin cannot and should not attempt to treat others 
    without respect to race, color, sex, or national 
    origin.

      (E) An individual, by virtue of his or her race, 
    color, sex, or national origin, bears responsibility 
    for, or should be discriminated against or receive 
    adverse treatment because of, actions committed in the 
    past by other members of the same race, color, sex, or 
    national origin.

      (F) An individual, by virtue of his or her race, 
    color, sex, or national origin, should be discriminated 
    against or receive adverse treatment to achieve 
    diversity, equity, or inclusion.

      (G) An individual should feel discomfort, guilt, 
    anguish, or any other form of psychological distress on 
    account of his or her race, color, sex, or national 
    origin.

      (H) Such virtues as merit, excellence, hard work, 
    fairness, neutrality, objectivity, and racial 
    colorblindness are racist or sexist, or were created by 
    members of a particular race, color, sex, or national 
    origin to oppress members of another race, color, sex, 
    or national origin.

(5) Nothing in this subsection shall be construed as compelling any individual to believe or refrain from believing in any politically-based concept referred to in paragraph (4) in their private and personal capacity.‘’.

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This is the equivalent of suspecting one of two books to be containing Nazi propaganda because it has more pages in it.

I’m not saying you should not be suspicious of the content of Threads but using size as a metric for it seems nonsensical to a software dev.

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The user interface in my opinion is pretty bad. It looks like old reddit which wasn’t that good. I have to manually expand each post to view it instead of just scrolling through.

Kbin is mostly better. But still a little rough on a few points.

Reddit in desktop mode is better.

Sync in card view mode was the best. Still looking for that experience.

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