I think the worst thing that could happen to the democrats is Clinton or her supporters oversimplifying Sanders’ supporters and stereotyping them as ignorant poor white bros who don’t care about anything besides their own economic interests, who are stupid enough to vote for Trump and therefore lost causes in terms of…

Except it doesn’t work that way in practice. Rich kids get exemptions to the draft, Poor’s not so much. Or rich daddy pulls strings and gets kid assigned somewhere safe, like George Bush.

Yeah, this is “feminism” via imperialist capitalism. Entrenched powers are very good at figuring out how to twist the ideals of social justice in their favor. Where feminism happens to align with the interests of entrenched powers, it gets support very quickly. When feminism runs counter to those interests, well ...

I think Gabbard was probably referring to drafting people in general. Tulsi is one of my favorite Congresswomen, a liberal Democrat (she endorsed Bernie), a Veteran, and has been a big supporter of opening combat positions to women so I doubt she was making some comment about women not being qualified to serve,…

The draft is shit. Liberal feminists have always said it’s shit. It was shit before women were forced into it. It’s still shit now. This isn’t a “gotcha” moment for anyone. Turns out mandatory requirements and restrictions are—as they have always been—the exact opposite of civil liberty, and the anarcho-socialist…

I took that as her saying that volunteers are better than draftees in general, men or women.

Yup. There should be no draft or universal draft. Men only is antiquated bullshit.

I’m pretty sure what she was trying to get at is that she doesn’t support the idea of a draft for anyone, regardless of gender. She wants a volunteer military where everyone is a willing, professional soldier

I think her statement was actually saying that she’s against the draft in general for both genders because willing people make better soldiers. She voted for the bill because she thinks that if there is a draft, everyone should be involved, but on a larger level thinks the legislature should be eliminating the draft…

That seemed more like an argument against having a draft at all than against having women included.

no one should have to register for the draft, but if it’s around i’m fine with women registering too.

I mean, on one hand, everyone knows he was an alcoholic and probably a classic grumpy-old-man.

Oh damn it. Good thing I’m in the grays here because it’s basically just a repeat of your comment.

But without the draft, what will MRAs have to howl “UNFAIR!!??” about?

I met Chyna accidentally once after a rock show in L.A. She was with Ron Jeremy at the time and was super nice to me when she didn’t have to (I could see the number of glasses on their table with the “reserved” sign).

I feel even worse for Chyna after hearing they were trying to get her help and other wrestlers wanted to help her. Drug addiction is rough.

Most of the time, when people talk about how “there were white slaves, too” they’re referring to indentured servitude, which was temporary and entered into voluntarily. But the more important point, in my view, is that even if there are examples of societies enslaving white people on the basis of their race in a way…

Yeah, the “Jewish slaves in Egypt” story is a religious one, not a historical one.

The fun* part of the IRA is that a large part of its intentions were to move Native Americans off of land to create more plantations, so it not only proved a fatal expulsion of one minority population but allowed for the expansion of the enslavement of another. It gets you both coming and going!

I have a friend who is a pretty successful fiction book writer. She was relaying a story recently about writing her latest book. The story was not working right for a while, and she felt like she fought it for some weeks, mostly due to what was happening to one character she just loved to write. Eventually, she…