The title is more or less the whole story. It's worth noting that physical fitness was originally seen as a national security issue. Dollars to donuts, that's the motivation here.

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[–] 7 points 6 months ago

It's a national aesthetics issue. If the United States is ever in a situation where its security depends on the fitness of draftees, we're already firing nukes.

Fascism likes the imagery of strapping young lads demonstrating the superiority of the volk and the adherents of it tend to look very not superior. This isn't going to fix that, but it's going to assuage their cognitive dissonance by pretending liberals cancelling it was the source of the problem and now we're back on the path to greatness.

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    So the new test is to see if we are as fit as the president?

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Time for the return of the FitnessGram Pacer Test?

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (3 children)

    The beeps still echo in my nightmares

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    This doesn’t quite capture the acoustics of the experienced version, does someone have time to take an impulse response at a public school gym and feed the audio through?

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