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TIL that in 1916 there was a proposed Amendment to the US Constitution that would put all acts of war to a national vote, and anyone voting yes would have to register as a volunteer for service in the (www.huffpost.com)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How fucking old is this story?

This is from 2013.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So? Today this person learned about. It doesn't say "Today I and Everybody Else Also Learned". I'd never heard of this proposed amendment, why does it matter that the article is old?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

@wet_lettuce knew it, so therefore everybody had to have known of it. That's how human knowledge works: one human learns it and thus do all humans.

It is known!