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To: dangus
And WTF is a “press gang”?

Are you a foreigner?   An American should know that impressment of Americans into the Royal Navy and Army was a primary grievance in the Revolution and the War of 1812.

29 posted on 06/28/2023 1:17:30 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: higgmeister

Very familiar with impressment. Not with “press gang.” Given the well-documented Russian use not only of impressment, but kidnapping of children to pressure their parents, that’s not a very strong argument against Ukraine. And again, you make false equivalences when you compare impressment into war AGAINST your homeland (or to foreign lands) to impressment into war to DEFEND your homeland.

In fact, YOU should know that the American side impressed Americans into defense of America, and both sides impressed people in the U.S. Civil War. Impressment ended in America only as it became not admninistratively worthwhile; there’s no great moral distinction between impressment and drafting.


32 posted on 06/28/2023 2:36:15 PM PDT by dangus ( )
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