Kostadis Roussos

@kostadis.bsky.social

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Technologist, Progressive, GM for life. Backed over 400 Kickstarter RPGs. Zionist. עם ישראל חי

Overturning Roe v. Wade could have disastrous consequences for the U.S. armed forces, and here’s how I know: When I was 21, I was drugged and raped violently while serving in the military, a crime that resulted in pregnancy. Had I not had access to abortion, the assault would have ended my career and derailed my life. Should Roe be overturned and access to abortion restricted for female service members across the United States, military readiness would be directly affected. This will immediately affect active-duty service members, who don’t exactly get to choose what state they serve in, and who don’t have the freedom to travel to other states without a leave “chit” approved up the chain of command — a command that is notoriously bad at dealing with the aftermath of sexual assault. Of the 20,500 service members sexually assaulted in 2018, only one-third reported the assault, and 43 percent of those who did said it was a negative experience. In a world without Roe, service members without ready access to abortion care would be trapped. A service member who is raped and becomes pregnant could essentially be forced by the government to carry their pregnancy to term and give birth to their rapist’s baby. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin should create policy granting leave for reproductive-health travel, and President Biden should call on the Defense Department to put that policy into practice.
Instead, they expressed their admiration for the United States as a model both because antimiscegenation laws and immigration quotas seemed so clear-cut and because public opinion accepted them as natural. In the early
But from the summer of 1933, Hitler praised a new kind of honor. In place of fighting and martyrdom, Hitler reminisced about disciplined, idealistic, and dedicated men who endured privation for the sake of a loftier goal. In every speech to the party faithful in his first year as chancellor, Hitler presented himself as the role model. "Fifteen years ago, I began my struggle for Germany with a handful of people... Fifteen years of struggling for a Volk... I have come today because my heart has led me here to you to tell you how infinitely happy the German Volk is and how happy I am." Claudia Koonz The Nazi Conscience #kindlequotes
. Ac-cordingly, he concludes, those who have strayed from Torah and the commandments ought to be wooed back with love, not condemned with hate.
A bunch of selfies over the years
Me wearing sunglasses at the end of my race
Whole lamb at a butcher