I never meant to imply it was. I don’t doubt that she’s earnest about wanting to transition. I do question why she didn’t quit the military and transition rather than commit treason. Frankly I think she relishes the attention. From releasing over a million files in the first place, to a botched suicide, to a hunger…

Actually lots of people are going to prison for free healthcare, that’s obviously an indictment of our health system in general, but we’re providing the incentives with things like this.

Why does it have to be the rest of their lives? Mannings due for a parole hearing in 2020 I believe.

There is already a standard set for civilian prisons:

Yes, that is in fact how it works. Prisoners don’t have the right to assembly, the right to bear arms, the right vote, etc...the Supreme Court has ruled that those rights are suspended due to the actions of the individual.

What’s to stop the next NCO who wants surgery from committing a crime, being sent to prison and demanding the same treatment? The current statute that maintains prisoners transition at the moment of their conviction is an adequate compromise that doesn’t incentivize criminal behavior.

I’m not opposed to the VA paying for the surgery for vets or even active service members. I’m opposed to paying for it for a criminal who didn’t even start her transition until after her conviction.

No, it’s about her crimes. That’s why it’s a military prison. She could’ve left the military and gotten the surgery, instead she chose to stay a man, stay in the military, commit several crimes, and then demand the government cover the cost of her transition which she wasn’t willing to do herself when she was free to…

I hope it doesn’t. The last we need is people committing crime just to get their gender assignment surgery done. The current statute says the government is obligated to provide treatment that maintains the transition at the current state the inmate was in when they were convicted. They’re not obligated to move the…

She clearly didn’t give a flying fuck about serving in the military now did she?

She was free to not commit the crime and have the surgery all on her own at any time she chose to.

Everyone tries to over complicate things with birthrates, maternity leave, daycare, blah, blah, blah. The problem is women have too many options other than giving birth.

In writing!

This is a problem that can be solved by private industry. The corporations just need to stop hiring women, so they all get so bored sitting at home that they need to have babies to keep from going insane.

So let me if I understand, if something becomes associated with black people, even if they didn’t invent it, and then someone from another race does it, they’re appropriating it from black people and not the people who did it before that?

Right, because I just posted where the documentary about twerking written about in this very column which claims it comes from Africa actually traces it back much farther. But it still comes from Africa, because reasons?

Or maybe if you want to claim someone appropriated something from you, you should be sure you were the first to do it. I’m pretty sure shaking asses has been a thing since prehistoric times. It didn’t get ‘invented’ by one particular culture.

Relevant:

But that was intentionally trying not to look like an alien...the star wars one is like, ‘we want an alien, but we spent all our budget on CGI Jar Jar Binks’

Thank god, the world’s been waiting for a way to put corporate advertising in their text messages, and now they have it. Thanks Apple! Steve Jobs would be so proud.