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   lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jul-2026 18:30:28 JST lainy
   kinda crazy that just one guy can decide to wage a war. they should put it in the constitution that congress declares war or something.
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     Kallisti (kallisti@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jul-2026 19:40:57 JST Kallisti

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     @lain

     Or start a popular vote.
     Voting "no" exempts from a potential draft.

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     𐌻𐌰𐌹𐍄 𐌰𐌺𐌺𐍉𐌼𐍀𐌻𐌹 (lait-accompli@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jul-2026 00:57:07 JST 𐌻𐌰𐌹𐍄 𐌰𐌺𐌺𐍉𐌼𐍀𐌻𐌹

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     @lain the workaround, which I think LBJ or Nixon first applied, is to start a war without making an official declaration.
     
     this also happened at the start of WWII:
     
     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kellogg%E2%80%93Briand_Pact
     
     >However, it also helped to erase the legal distinction between war and peace, because the signatories, having renounced the use of war, began to wage wars without declaring them, as in the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931, the Italian invasion of Abyssinia in 1935, the Soviet invasion of Finland in 1939, and the German and Soviet invasions of Poland.[23]
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     Jens_Rasmussen (jens_rasmussen@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jul-2026 12:12:26 JST Jens_Rasmussen

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     @lain Didn't congress agree to have a partnership with the Israeli military? That's basically them agreeing to it.
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