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jourdanpfiouts

Trump Signs Memo Implementing Ban On Transgender People Enlisting In The Military : The... - 9 views

www.npr.org/...sgender-people-in-the-military

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  • maxaqramirez on 28 Aug 17
     
    "President Trump has signed a memo implementing his new policy on transgender people serving in the armed forces."
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  • mason_mower on 29 Aug 17
     
    So what is the difference between a Transgender already serving and a Transgender trying to enlist to serve their country? They're still humans, and they still have the same rights as everyone else. "The only exception is for transgender service members already in treatment."
  • maxaqramirez on 29 Aug 17
     
    @mason_mower Transgender individuals that are currently in the military can stay, but no money will be spent on any medical costs for them. I agree, anyone should be allowed to serve their country, considering they are mentally and physically capable, no matter their identity.
  • tayonnathomas on 29 Aug 17
     
    I wish I could understand the logic coming from this. Discrimination is just wrong.
  • Brennan Plummer on 29 Aug 17
     
    It's interesting that while campaigning in 2016, Trump stated ""Thank you to the LGBT community! I will fight for you while Hillary brings in more people that will threaten your freedoms and beliefs.", but now he has become a person that threatens their freedoms and beliefs. His main reason for banning transgender people is the cost of surgeries and other care. Saying that the military was being burden by "tremendous medical costs." However, a study in The New England Journal of Medicine in 2015 put the number at of transgenders at 12,800 and the cost of care at $4.2 million to $5.6 million and concluding that "doctors agree that such care is medically necessary." And that the cost of care for transgender people is only a tenth of the cost of the annual $84 million dollars the military spends to treat erectile dysfunction.
  • minaduquette on 29 Aug 17
     
    This is a big step backwards for the trangender community. makes me sad
  • stocktonthomsen on 29 Aug 17
     
    "The privacy of service members must not be infringed. This means that no soldiers, including those who identify as transgender, should be allowed to use the sex-specific facility of the opposite sex. When it comes to barracks, bathroom, showers, etc., the privacy of all service members must be respected. Given the nature of military living quarters, it is unclear where soldiers who identify as transgender could be housed." One of the reasons I don't believe transgender should be allowed to serve in the Military.
  • maxaqramirez on 30 Aug 17
     
    @stocktonthomsen Although I understand your concern Stockton, many transgender individuals are completely comfortable being housed in the sex specific facilities of the opposite sex. Considering some of them have stalls or something along those lines, the transgender individuals could change clothes and use the restroom/bathing facilities without exposing inappropriate parts. Also, considering the large military budget we have, we could afford either building separate barracks for the transgender individuals, or at least adding stalls to certain barracks so the individuals can wash up and use the restroom in peace.
  • maxaqramirez on 30 Aug 17
     
    Also, why does the gender matter of the person fighting? As long as they are capable of fighting, it should not matter. They want to fight for their country, so let them. @stocktonthomsen
  • stocktonthomsen on 05 Sep 17
     
    "As far as the actual psychological issues at play, it used to be called gender identity disorder; now they call it gender dysphoria. The idea that sex or gender is malleable is not true. I'm not denying your humanity if you are a transgender person; I am saying that you are not the sex which you claim to be. You're still a human being, and you're a human being with an issue then I wish you Godspeed in dealing with it in any whatever way you see fit, but if you're going to dictate to me that I'm supposed to pretend, I'm supposed to pretend that men are women and women are men, no. My answer is no. I'm not going to modify basic biology because it threatens your subjective sense of what you are." -Ben Shapiro Desiring to be trans is ridiculous
  • maxaqramirez on 06 Sep 17
     
    @stocktonthomsen I do not trust your quote source, as he is not an expert in the field of biology/psychology. Fun fact: Brains have actually been scientifically proven to be genderless. If you want to bring up biology, I'd like you to know that it is possible to be a female bodied individual with three X chromosomes, a female bodied individual with one X chromosome, a male bodied individual with two X chromosomes and a Y chromosome, a male bodied individual with one X chromosome and two Y chromosomes, etc. And what happens when a transgender individual actually has the bottom surgery? What then? Do you seriously want to say that they are still women (if they were born female) or that they are still men (if they were born male) even though they have the sex organs for the opposite sex? Would you still say they should be in the barracks of the sex they were born with? Would you still say that person should use the bathroom of the sex they were born as? If you really want to convince me that I should not serve in the military because of my gender identity, you need to bring in stronger arguments and better sources.
  • maxaqramirez on 06 Sep 17
sydneykolln

Ted Cruz's Cancun Trip: Family Texts Detail His Political Blunder - 18 views

www.nytimes.com/...ted-cruz-storm-cancun.html

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  • sydneykolln on 21 Feb 21
     
    Personally, I feel like it was wrong for Ted Cruz to go to Cancun when Texas is freezing and having a power outage. What are your thoughts on this?
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  • saraivargas on 22 Feb 21
     
    While people in Texas are struggling for power, on top of a global pandemic happening Ted Cruz should not be leaving for Cancun.
  • thepriceisright on 22 Feb 21
     
    This is especially sad as well because up until now he denied climate change, and when he was proven wrong, instead of helping, he just left.
  • gbrochu915 on 22 Feb 21
     
    I think that him and his family are wrong because he didn't believe in climate change and not that he knows that iyts real hes not going to do anything to help, hes just going to leave.
  • vperez191 on 22 Feb 21
     
    I don't think what Ted Cruz did was okay. It shows that he doesn't care about what the people in Texas are going through and just makes him look bad in general.
  • lhunter952 on 22 Feb 21
     
    I feel like if you are someone who is viewed as a leader, you should not run away from the problems at hand. He is a congressman in Texas and I feel like he should've stayed home with his people and not go stay in Cancun while his state is under duress
  • abbidominguez on 22 Feb 21
     
    I think Ted Cruz leaving to go on a trip to Cancun with his family was extremely immature and inconsiderate. He is a well known politician with a large following that leaves a lot of people looking up to him. As soon as things got bad he decided to leave when instead he should have been helping and thinking of recovery plans for the people in Texas.
  • haileejoy on 22 Feb 21
     
    I think that Ted Cruz leaving was really dumb on his part. Peoples houses are literally falling apart and flooding and people are dying and he is doing nothing about it. So unless he's out there making plans on how to save everybody, he doesnt deserve the title he has.
  • arosas733 on 23 Feb 21
     
    I feel like this was not right of him to do. Ted Cruz is an important figure there in Texas and if he can't be there to help during the bad times, he shouldn't deserve to be there for the good.
  • ericschmidtberge on 23 Feb 21
     
    I understand that even if he had stayed most likely it wouldn't have had that much of an effect on the situation but it's basically a slap in the face to all the people who didn't have the fund's in Texas to even heat their homes if that was an option and could only dream on going on a vacation to Cancun. He at a minimum could have donated the money the family spent on the trip to help some of the people freezing to death and losing their homes.
  • nick_rice on 23 Feb 21
     
    I believe he did not do the right thing in that situation and he should have stayed and helped Texas instead of running away like a little baby.
  • kredding147 on 26 Feb 21
     
    This made me so mad. I know that he was just trying to be a good dad, but he's not just any dad. He's a senator. And there's a crisis going on and he's flying to Mexico while people are literally dying.
  • alejandro4 on 04 Mar 21
     
    He should've stayed in Texas to help the texans in crisis instead of going to cancun for warmth.
  • masonmascarenas on 05 Mar 21
     
    Personally, I don't think Ted Cruz should have left Texas because it was a time that people needed help from the government most and he wasn't anywhere to be seen.
  • owenjacobs on 08 Mar 21
     
    Ted Cruz should not have left but there was not much that he could do being a senator in DC. The most he could have done much like Dan Crenshaw was hand out water, or food. And that is better than nothing but he had no control over what was going on or had no way to actually help bring the power back.
  • noahsandbothe on 27 Apr 21
     
    I think it's ironic to say that Joe Biden was hiding during the campaign trail in the 2020 election. Then proceeds to "Hide" in Cancun when his state was in a crisis.
  • jdogan on 05 May 21
     
    This especially makes me mad since most of my family lives in Texas and they had no power and no running water and he just left them alone there to go to Cancun. This is a situation involving his own state and he doesn't even show the decency to pretend to care about the people there as their senator
  • mgerman776 on 24 May 21
     
    Why would you abandon your state when they need you most? Sounds selfish and morally just wrong.
  • jcontreras201 on 25 May 21
     
    I think that Ted Cruz was dumb for this because he is a senator and should be trying to do something about their outages but instead he became selfish and fled to Mexico.
qanderson136

Biden should have dodged reelection question at first news conference - 16 views

www.usatoday.com/...7036849002

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  • qanderson136 on 29 Mar 21
     
    Should Biden run for president at the end of 2024? What are your thoughts?
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  • brandonwch on 29 Mar 21
     
    In an ideal world, Biden wouldn't run so that a more popular progressive candidate could run. Unfortunately, Biden likely will run for re-election at the end of his term, or the DNC will push hard for another milquetoast centrist if he doesn't.
  • jackiegonzalez on 29 Mar 21
     
    I agree with Brandon. I don't think Biden is the best president out there. From what I saw, many people only voted for him to get Trump out of office. However, from what I read in the article, Biden was confident when he said, "Yes. My plan is to run for reelection. That's my expectation." As the current newly appointed president, it's good that Biden responded confidently even if he doesn't run again. He would have looked weak if he said anything else. Also, why are reporters asking this question so soon? Biden has only been in office for like three months. The press is just trying to hurry up life.
  • allisonwalker on 29 Mar 21
     
    I don't think that he should run again, he should allow another to run who might be able to be more productive or something.
  • jdogan on 29 Mar 21
     
    I don't think he will end up running again by the end of his term and I don't think he should either as he has labeled himself as a bridge president I think it's illogical to run again. him winning the presidency creates some momentum for the party and it's pretty obvious that from here some more democratic candidates will come forwards vying to be the top candidate, and I don't think Joe Biden coming to join them would be of any benefit and it would probably stand more as a division within the party. Joe Biden pretty much just stood as anti-Trump in this election for people so when people have the option to choose for another candidate I don't think many would choose Biden.
  • saraivargas on 12 Apr 21
     
    Depending on how his term ends out should be a deciding factor for reelection.
  • hannahliwai on 12 Apr 21
     
    i think it's too early to think about reelection because even if he wants to run again, he might change his mind about it in a few years.
  • bklopp601 on 12 Apr 21
     
    I believe we should wait to answer this question, cause we don't know what he's going to do in the future.
  • redrose99875 on 12 Apr 21
     
    Biden has made some big mistakes, and has done things I don't approve of...But it's been less than a year, so I will give him a chance to correct his mistakes.
  • milo_nordman on 15 Apr 21
     
    I agree with Jackie, it's too early in Biden's presidency to be asking whether or not he'll run again. I'm sure he'll try to run again, but I'm not sure how successful he'll be. Many people just voted for him because they didn't want Trump in office, so I'm doubtful they'll vote for him when there are other options.
  • wnichols1416 on 19 Apr 21
     
    it's too early in Biden's presidency to be asking whether or not he'll run again its been like 3 months that's a question that should be asked around the time of reelection.
  • joeypo10 on 19 Apr 21
     
    I don't Biden should run again because they are better options out there for our president. Many people only voted for Biden because they didn't like how trump was as a person rather than what his policies did.
  • tsilva588 on 19 Apr 21
     
    Personally, I think that Biden will run for president and I think that in 2024 he will lose. Do you think the rock can become president in 2024?
  • ericschmidtberge on 20 Apr 21
     
    I agree with most of the comments. It´s too early to tell if Biden will run again especially since it's only been a few months. Depending on what he does in the office and the feedback he gets will dictate if he runs again. I do feel that Biden was sort of elected just to get Trump out of the office and I hope that in the next election there's a better option besides just the one main factor was he wasn´t Trump. Either way, I look forward to following the rocks campaign.
  • rosellyrosas on 20 Apr 21
     
    I personally think that Biden will not run for president in 2024. I think it is also too soon for anyone to say anything since it hasn't been a year. Everyone was concerned about Biden's age when he ran for president, I feel like he shouldn't run for president again for that reason. What if he has too many health issues? What are your thoughts?
  • arosas733 on 21 Apr 21
     
    I agree with most of the comments that it is too early to tell, I think there is a chance he will run again but I don't see him getting voted in again. At least hopefully by then, we'd have better people to choose from as well. But especially cause of his age and him already being slow in general, it is unlikely for him to run again.
Bryan Pregon

Biden's first executive orders will reverse Trump policies - The Washington Post - 1 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...b-b8bd-ee36b1cd18bf_story.html

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  • thepriceisright on 27 Jan 21
     
    That was his campaign promise and it is good to see him follow through with it. Part of changing presidents (whether our last one liked it or not) is the next person fixes the errors that the last president made.
Bryan Pregon

Deepfakes by BJP in Indian Delhi Election Campaign - VICE - 1 views

www.vice.com/...akes-in-indian-election-by-bjp

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  • Bryan Pregon on 19 Feb 20
     
    "It's 2020, and deepfakes have become a powerful and concerning, tool that allows humans to manipulate or fabricate visual and audio content on the internet to make it seem very real. "
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