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IbogaProject

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4. They want to hurt people
Sun Sep 22, 2024, 03:22 PM
Sep 2024

Another GOP scam is to make it impossible to access social benefits if a male can't prove they registered for selective service, registration has been mandatory for males since the 1980s when Reagan reinstated the requirement to be registered within some short time frame of their 18th birthday. The catch is you get one piece of paper that shows you did. There is no way to get that if you missed the deadline or loose that piece of paper. I'm sure if some one white who knows somebody they click through on whatever setting on which ever state database, but any one poor or minority would be blocked from simple benefits which while federally funded are mostly administered at the state level. This amounts to gender discrimination as no woman was ever required to registered but the GOP harasses them with the naming issues women face if they ever change their name.

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