I’ve been feeling down lately and I started re-watching futurama for some good nostalgia, but it keeps making transphobic jokes which is kind of just making me feel worse. Anyone have any suggestions for comfort shows to watch?

  • thecrotch
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    1 year ago

    Luckily they realized after Vietnam that draftees who don’t want to be there don’t really give it their all. You bring up an interesting point though, all men in the country have to register for selective service at 18, I wonder if that still applies to trans women who haven’t updated their paperwork yet

    Anyway, hypotheticals aside, I think it’s good that gay or trans people who want to serve in the armed forces have that option now

    • NoStressyJessie@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      Absolutely, there shouldn’t be anything to stop those individuals from serving on their own volition.

      luckily they realized after Vietnam that… (conscripts) … who don’t want to be there don’t really give it their all.

      It was 2006-2007 I was a really big 9/11 truther, any time people would talk about a draft I used to rebut “I don’t want to go there, and I want to die anyways, go ahead and give me a gun and force me to go, let’s see how many Americans I can kill with sabotage and a rampage.”

      It blows my mind that we still have people who think a conscription effort would be anything but detrimental.

      Speaking of, anyone else notice the semantic propaganda that is the word draft/ conscript? Our enemies are evil and they conscript their men to fight in pointless wars, but we on the other hand draft our young heroes to selflessly serve their country.