It’s not even itself overly broad, it’s just been twisted into a global war on terror because the executives want to do that and no one stopped them.

Yes, therein lies the problem. It was a stupid mistake to make and those that voted for it should have known better.

There were two AUMFs. One for “terrorism” and one for Iraq.

I’m not in disagreement, that also wasn’t what my initial reply was about.

Yes, we call those “blank checks” to the executive branch. The Germans even have a word for it. We did it with Vietnam and it did not go well. One would have thought the generation in Congress would have learned their lesson given most of them lived through that shitshow.

It goes without saying that military resources can defend themselves when fired upon, there’s plenty of precedent going back well before the formation of the US. The AUMFs were not that. They were very clearly blank checks to wage literal wars anywhere the executive desired while providing the flimsiest of evidence - and Shrub did just that. See: Iraq.

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The last war by US Congress was declared in June 1942, against Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania. US Congress has not made a formal declaration of war since then.

😂😂 except in the countries we invade…

Source: old enough to remember Iraq and Afghanistan as an adult and have a parent that went to Vietnam.

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The CEO of the Internet!

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Not enough info. Those are two different things.

Neat

NYT was trash twenty years ago and it hasn’t changed.

Edit: lol smoothbrained shit bags downvote because they enjoy deepthroating diseased conservative dick.

He’s just faking it! Old Man Joe really pulls all the strings! He’s both extremely cunning and hopelessly inept! Simultaneously at the same time!

That’s because NPR is too pussy, and all the other outlets are super far right. Overton Window is a B.

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I’m tempted to buy argument space in the upcoming election booklet and attack my Republican representative and drop “Trump Crime Family” repeatedly. Maybe a super sarcastic one in support and then a more serious one against.

Yeah but the Biden crime family!

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Kotlin is the wave of the future. I still use Java, but I’m transitioning into using Kotlin for backend services. The devs are my work have been moving the app codebase to Kotlin for a couple of years (over a million lines) and it’s pretty nice. You reduce a lot of boilerplate and the code can be a bit more dense.