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Al Borland Corp. posted:No, I'm the socialist who deeply cares about the damage done to our state department and has personal friends whose lives were put at higher risk due to those cable leaks. Any time there is a leak like that there are people that die. Unless one knows them directly, like family or they actually are family, the public doesn't hear about it. 
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Is this true? How many trans people are in the military? Out or otherwise?
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Jul 27, 2017 06:19
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Take any number Vicky Hartzler spits out with a huge grain of salt. As far as numbers I've heard anywhere from 10 to 20 thousand active trans members
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Jul 27, 2017 06:22
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Hobo Erotica posted:
It's impossible to measure those who aren't out, but of those who are, it's somewhere between 7000 and 15,000.
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Jul 27, 2017 06:25
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DC Murderverse posted:https://twitter.com/elliosch/status/890436461832622080 I like how King Dipshit and all the lesser dipshits are so used to a comfortable, relatively safe life in a huge crowd of wealthy people but now they're in a goldfish bowl and they're the only thing in it to look at. All of them figure they know the game and their skeletons will stay locked up but they've gone from playing Adventure Capitalist to loving Dwarf Fortress, and they embarked in a Terrifying Swamp tile 
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Hobo Erotica posted:
I remember reading an article (on Cracked, of all places) that FtM transition is a whole lot more involved than MtF, because as the saying goes "it's easier to dig a hole than build a pole." FtM requires a lot of maintenance and upkeep, while MtF seems to be a whole lot easier, since biologically, all embryos are initially female (it's still no picnic). As with all things in nature, it's easier for men.  Here's the article in question: http://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-1546-6-awful-lessons-i-learned-transitioning-from-female-to-male.html
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Hobo Erotica posted:Is this true? The RAND study that the DOD commissioned posted:"There Are an Estimated 1,320–6,630 Transgender Service Members in the Active Component, but Not All Will Seek Gender Transition–Related Treatment"
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Jul 27, 2017 06:28
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Thanks. So the $1.3 billion thing is about right? $130 million per year, call it 10,000 trans people, that's like, $13,000 each? Over 10 years?
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Jul 27, 2017 06:37
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No loving way.
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Hobo Erotica posted:Thanks. So the $1.3 billion thing is about right? $130 million per year is a very high estimate, too, and it comes from an unnamed study cited by a rabidly anti-trans congresswoman. There's a RAND Corporation study which says it's only $8.4 million per year.
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Paradoxish posted:No loving way. poo poo like this is why the head of the OGE resigned - because they were being ignored.
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Jul 27, 2017 06:45
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Hobo Erotica posted:Thanks. So the $1.3 billion thing is about right? The RAND survey, again, an actual one commissioned by the interested parties, estimated $8.3 million as the high-end annually. $84 million over ten years - so, you know, more than an order of magnitude less than the republican congresswoman you're quoting.
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In an ideal world, Murkowski would meet with AKIP and/or the Canadians about annexation, just to send Trump into a Twitter tizzy about being the president who cost us a star on the flag. "FOURTEE NINE'S A LUCKY NUMBAH! #GOODRIDDANCE"
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ekeog posted:The RAND survey, again, an actual one commissioned by the interested parties, estimated $8.3 million as the high-end annually. $84 million over ten years - so, you know, more than an order of magnitude less than the republican congresswoman you're quoting. $84M also happens to be about what the military spends annually on dick pills for its soldiers.
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Spaced God posted:$84M also happens to be about what the military spends annually on dick pills for its soldiers. Don't forget these! http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/mar/24/ilyse-hogue/look-medicares-grossly-excessive-spending-penis-pu/ "Medicare has spent $172 million on penis pumps in the last five years at $360 a pop." (to figure that out, ~0.4 percent of the population is currently in the military)
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BIG HEADLINE posted:In an ideal world, Murkowski would meet with AKIP and/or the Canadians about annexation, just to send Trump into a Twitter tizzy about being the president who cost us a star on the flag. I'm not one to freak out, but holy poo poo. That kind of poo poo starts happening and it is civil war 2
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The Glumslinger posted:I'm not one to freak out, but holy poo poo. That kind of poo poo starts happening and it is civil war 2 It wouldn't be for real. If anything, she'd meet with AKIP because they're constituents. The latter could be floated as a  .Alaska seceding isn't plausible because even though the state is mostly empty, there's quite a lot of military materiel up there that can't (and won't) be moved. The same with the "Cascadia" nutjobs. Washington state has more destructive power within its borders than the whole of France.
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The Glumslinger posted:I'm not one to freak out, but holy poo poo. That kind of poo poo starts happening and it is civil war 2 I think if Alaska gets annexed and we fight to get it back that just becomes an actual facts war with the annexing country. Which, let's be real, would be Russia. No way they let Canada get all that oil. But all of this is so far flung it doesn't even matter even more than in an lol nothing matters sense
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ekeog posted:The RAND survey, again, an actual one commissioned by the interested parties, estimated $8.3 million as the high-end annually. $84 million over ten years - so, you know, more than an order of magnitude less than the republican congresswoman you're quoting. great thank you
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Haha yeah this will not go over well here and will ultimately push AK further into the purple/blue.
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Jul 27, 2017 07:04
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BIG HORNY COW posted:Haha yeah this will not go over well here and will ultimately push AK further into the purple/blue. "President Trump is threatening your yearly new television fund."
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BIG HEADLINE posted:After nearly breaking my brain reading over the past seven pages... I don't think you understand how this works now. You call the people you disagree with nazis. Evil Fluffy posted:I also think that war crimes should be covered up at all costs. this guy gets it
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on is dissuading the true fascists who are taking notes right now on how dysfunctional and vulnerable the government is. He or she who will *become* America's Hitler will be *facilitated* by Trump, but Trump is *not* America's Hitler.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:I remember reading an article (on Cracked, of all places) that FtM transition is a whole lot more involved than MtF, because as the saying goes "it's easier to dig a hole than build a pole." FtM requires a lot of maintenance and upkeep, while MtF seems to be a whole lot easier, since biologically, all embryos are initially female (it's still no picnic). As with all things in nature, it's easier for men. This isn't quite true, and that author isn't very knowledgeable about phalloplasty or it's results. However, yes, phalloplasty is more expensive and intense healing wise than vaginoplasty. Trans men do have some difficulty with the medical side of transitioning, but actually adding testosterone does a lot. Both sides of HRT cause changes, inside and out. But testosterone's are more permanent and honestly, noticable. A trans man could (in most situations) do nothing but wear vaguely boys clothes, bind (if needed) and be on testosterone a couple years and be recognized in their gender. Bottom surgery != transition
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BIG HEADLINE posted:"President Trump is threatening your yearly new television fund." Oh we already have plenty of that right now with the PFD being capped at $1100 due to our budget crisis. The Republican senate doesn't want to stop giving tax credit blowjobs to the oil companies even though the market is in the shitter because JOB CREATORS, and they flat out refuse any new taxes to even be considered, so the pfd is the only place to get money from to run this place. We're not in a great place right now and getting hosed with by trumps administration isn't going to help their cause.
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BIG HORNY COW posted:Oh we already have plenty of that right now with the PFD being capped at $1100 due to our budget crisis. The Republican senate doesn't want to stop giving tax credit blowjobs to the oil companies even though the market is in the shitter because JOB CREATORS, and they flat out refuse any new taxes to even be considered, so the pfd is the only place to get money from to run this place. Any idea how your fellow Alaskans are likely to interpret this? I cannot imagine that Alaskans respond well to group threats- but who they are likely to direct their blame/ire against in this situation is a mystery to me.
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So completely theoretically, how far down the chain at DOJ would Trump have to fire people to get to an Acting AG who isn't Senate-confirmable? Wondering in the outlandish bizarro-world scenario/thought experiment where he fires Sessions, the Senate refuses to confirm any replacement AG, and so he just keeps firing all the way down until he gets to someone who he wants and doesn't require authorization from the Senate.
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Prester Jane posted:Any idea how your fellow Alaskans are likely to interpret this? I cannot imagine that Alaskans respond well to group threats- but who they are likely to direct their blame/ire against in this situation is a mystery to me. If any of this threatens national parks management, tourism or fisheies, it's all gonna get heaped on the Trump admin. The right is just gonna scream for Murkowski's head though. We have an independent governor and a democratic house of representatives right now, which is surprising for a place like this. I live in a small town with a 50/50 mix of maga chuds/boomers and hippies/artists. Its a weird place.
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Alaska is basically an even more frozen Alberta so no thanks.
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Drone posted:So completely theoretically, how far down the chain at DOJ would Trump have to fire people to get to an Acting AG who isn't Senate-confirmable? Rachel Brand was a Trump appointee, and she's right under Rosenstein...
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Jul 27, 2017 07:41
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"Trump wants to get rid of your annual oil bonus, the one that every single person gets, unless I vote to get rid of "socialized healthcare."" : "No socialism! No Obamacare!"
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BIG HORNY COW posted:
I can't tell if this describes Girdwood or the Valley
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This is encouraging. Trump miscalculated so badly, that even Senator Ernst from Iowa has decided that she has to offer up at least mild resistance to Trump's trans-ban https://twitter.com/WHOhd/status/890468074931064832
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About a year ago I finally watched the first season of VEEP and thought it was pretty good, but I didn't get around to the 2nd season. Now I don't think I can watch it.   
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Rigel posted:This is encouraging. Trump miscalculated so badly, that even Senator Ernst from Iowa has decided that she has to offer up at least mild resistance to Trump's trans-ban Implying Trump calculated anything. Ha!
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pokie posted:Implying Trump calculated anything. Ha! Does "Ban what Obama did" count?
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Rigel posted:This is encouraging. Trump miscalculated so badly, that even Senator Ernst from Iowa has decided that she has to offer up at least mild resistance to Trump's trans-ban I swear I saw her on CNN today agreeing with Trump's decision, wtf.
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Cabbit posted:I'm not a big wargamer. Would it be acceptable if I viewed this as the Technocracy leveling a chunk of Bangladesh with neutron bombs and orbital sun-mirrors in an attempt to put down the antediluvian vampire Zapathasura during the Week of Nightmares? He has Chimerstry 10. How do you know that really happened, and it all wasn't just an illusion so potent that it felt real? 
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It would be cool if the experience of Trump led to the rise of a parliamentary-style system where the president is a powerless figurehead without authority to pick cabinet members and Paul Ryan becomes Prime Minister icantfindaname fucked around with this message at 09:07 on Jul 27, 2017 |
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"One man's filth is another man's livelihood! #cleancoal #MAGA #keepvotingGOPrubes"
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