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Recursion

(56,582 posts) Fri Jun 5, 2020, 12:28 PM Jun 2020

The Third Amendment is trending on Twitter and I don't know how I landed in this timeline

The third amendment. The third *$&%ing amendment. This is some 18th-century shit. Even the UK didn't go on quartering after the American Revolution because they saw it's counterproductive.

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The Third Amendment is trending on Twitter and I don't know how I landed in this timeline (Original Post) Recursion Jun 2020 OP

The only one's that may be "quartering" soldiers, are the right wing racist militia movements in still_one Jun 2020 #1

"Number Three! The army can't live in your house!!!!" Tommy_Carcetti Jun 2020 #2

still_one

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1. The only one's that may be "quartering" soldiers, are the right wing racist militia movements in

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Fri Jun 5, 2020, 12:32 PM

Jun 2020

this country

I have no idea what garbage is being thrown on twitter in the context of quartering, and how it applies today

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,181 posts)

2. "Number Three! The army can't live in your house!!!!"

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Fri Jun 5, 2020, 12:47 PM

Jun 2020

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