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jeffw@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 11 months ago

Joe Biden pardons all veterans convicted and discharged over their sexuality or gender identity

www.advocate.com

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Joe Biden pardons all veterans convicted and discharged over their sexuality or gender identity

www.advocate.com

jeffw@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 11 months ago
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“Today, I am righting a historic wrong by using my clemency authority to pardon many former service members who were convicted simply for being themselves,” Biden said.
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    do they get back pay on the pension

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      That question was addressed in the article.

      the issue of back pay remains complex and largely unaddressed in the immediate details provided by the officials. They did not specify commitments regarding back pay for the time veterans were unjustly separated from service, which suggests that further clarifications from the Department of Defense might be necessary.

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        That’s a lot of words for “lolno.”

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    REAL Patriots who support our Troops call them LOSERS and SUCKERS!

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      /s or right wing troll? It’s hard to tell the difference sometimes

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        I’m VERY clearly a REAL Republican because I LOVE Insulting our Troops while claiming i’m a Patriot!

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          My husband is a GUN, and I am an EAGLE WEARING A HAAAAAATTTT

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            https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Soldier_responses#With_Freedom_Feathers_equipped

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          WHAT THE FUCK IS A KILOMETERRRRRRR

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          I really want a Big Mac now.

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            Big Mac says nope.

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        @BigMacHole@lemm.ee is making fun of Trump for being an unpatriotic traitor.

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        I’m pretty sure this is Poes Law

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        I checked his history… and I still can’t honestly tell lol

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          It’s sarcasm lol. They’re committed to the bit, I respect it

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    If he’s able to do it now he’s been about to do it the last 3 years. He held their rights hostage for power

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      Better than not doing it at all

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        No it’s not. Anyone holding people’s rights hostage for power is psychopathic

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          Putin says unranians don’t deserve the power to light up their homes, or the power to have anything more than rubble…

          Are you calling his eminence, Putin, a psychopath?

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            Unranians? Like, folks from Uranus?

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            Biden is holding peoples rights hostage

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              regardless of what biden is or isnt doing, trump would just remove the rights entirely, so still gotta vote for biden

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                Either way rights are being taken

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                  (supposedly) taking and then giving back is better than permanently removing, no matter how you look at it

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          Yes, it literally is.

          Doing it late is bad, as you describe.

          Doing it never is worse.

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          Even if this were true (which it’s not) it’s still better to have rights than to not have them

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      The ultimate end-goal of a president’s first term is to be elected for a second term, and we Americans have very short attention spans. Stuff like this that seems like it should obviously have been done as soon as someone with the will to change it comes into power is more politically beneficial to do in an election year. It’s a shit system, certainly, but even the (relatively speaking) “good politicians” have to operate within it.

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      deleted by creator

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      They can’t do everything everywhere all at once.

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        Then suddenly when they need votes they find the time

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          I’m happy they did the right thing. I lived under Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Trump. (Don’t really remember Bush Sr or Regan personally) And one team helps us, and the other fucks us over. I will remember this in the voting booth.

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            They did the right thing when they needed votes, not because it was the right thing to do.

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