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Pyrate Jenni ([info]pyratejenni) wrote in [info]unfunnybusiness,
@ 2010-12-18 17:12:00
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DADT repealed!
Via CBS

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[info]catmoran
2010-12-18 11:00 pm UTC (link)
*\o/*

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[info]pantyless_angel
2010-12-18 11:01 pm UTC (link)
I was wondering how long it would take this to get posted. When I first read it I cheered really loud and scared my cat.

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[info]rhiannonmr
2010-12-19 12:14 am UTC (link)
DADT was a stupid compromise that got cooked up when the Clinton administration couldn't get the gay ban overturned back in the 90s. It sucked then, it continued to suck and now it's gone. I feel relief that it is. I served with gay servicemembers all the way back in the 70s who were constantly at risk of being discharged for their sexual orientation. It seems stupid to me NOT to acknowledge that 'they're here, they're queer, get used to it.' I also saw how false accusations aimed at someone could permanently shadow a military career. It wasn't pretty. I am very glad this is going away, it's past time it did.

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[info]rachelmap
2010-12-19 12:14 am UTC (link)
Yes! And the advantage of doing it legislatively is that we don't have to depend on the whims of the Legislative or Executive branches to stop enforcement of this immoral law. From the moment the President signs the repeal, it will be a non-issue.

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[info]major_fischer
2010-12-19 04:43 pm UTC (link)
Except it wont be the moment the law is signed. Implimentation will take a while to go into effect and the old policy will be in place for at least 60 days after it is signed.

People in the military still need to keep quiet about their orientation for a few months.

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[info]rachelmap
2010-12-19 10:16 pm UTC (link)
So? Truman's executive order integrating the troops wasn't implemented overnight, either; but once the process had been decided on, nobody could stop it.

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[info]mmanurere
2010-12-19 10:39 pm UTC (link)
It won't be at the "nobody can stop it" point for quite awhile, though. The President, Secretary of Defense, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff all have to officially state that the DoD has an integration plan in place and that there will be no negative effects before anything gets started. DADT could easily stay in place for years.

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[info]rachelmap
2010-12-19 11:50 pm UTC (link)
It could, but since the President, Secretary of Defense and various other military chiefs have declared they want DADT to end, I doubt it will. Look at it this way: if they didn't want to end this policy, why did they work so hard to do just that? Sure, the President might have wanted to throw one of his constituencies a bone, but nobody in the military had to go along with him on this--including the 70% of the troops that answered a Pentagon DADT survey that they were OK with serving alongside gays. Take that along with the facts that it is no longer illegal to be gay anywhere in the US, and that there's a shooting war on and a shortage of manpower to fight it...

Well, I don't think it'll take all that long.

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[info]brennalarose
2010-12-19 12:29 am UTC (link)
It's a step in the right direction. Now, what I want to know is, will those people also get justice if somebody decides they should have stayed in the closet? That's my biggest fear.

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[info]platedlizard
2010-12-19 12:36 am UTC (link)
Hilarity ensues at FreeRepublic.

Wonder how long this comment is going to stay up.

To: RatherBiased.com This will destroy the US military, just as it has destroyed the Israeli, UK, Australian Canadian and Germnan armed forces

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[info]demonoflight
2010-12-19 01:02 am UTC (link)
Hah, that's funny. If the Israeli army was destroyed, I'd be dead by now. Guess those "horrible" gays who serve just like everyone else aren't that dangerous, ay?

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[info]talec
2010-12-19 01:03 am UTC (link)
That is golden. And I'm not normally a fan of freeper foolishness.

Are your kneepads a bit too tight, cutting off circulation to your brain?

I'm just going to assume this is a quote of someone else

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[info]emily_goddess
2010-12-19 01:53 am UTC (link)
I love the guy who's complaining that with DADT gone, the military will have to allow "flippy" salutes. OH GOD, the limp-wristed homos are assaulting the sacred institution of salutage!

Also, the folks claiming they won't encourage young people to enlist any more: call me a hippy, but I'm not seeing how "I won't tell young people to go kill or be killed anymore" is supposed to be a bad thing.

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[info]ninwhore
2010-12-19 02:17 am UTC (link)
Also cross dressing when off duty! It's not like straight men don't cross dress for the lols or anything! And anything they do in their free time is totally heterosexual!

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[info]chibikaijuu
2010-12-19 03:06 am UTC (link)
Similarly, this is a bastion of manly macho heterosexuality.

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[info]finchbird
2010-12-19 03:50 am UTC (link)
Real men wear pink. :D

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[info]ajatshatru
2010-12-19 06:34 pm UTC (link)
I remember 'Bruno' :D :D

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[info]agent_hyatt
2010-12-20 01:09 am UTC (link)
complaining that with DADT gone, the military will have to allow "flippy" salutes

Is that what he's really worried about? Have no fear, repealing DADT doesn't make Arnold Rimmer stop being fictional.

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[info]telegramsam
2010-12-20 04:53 pm UTC (link)
Glad to see I'm not the only one whose brain went straight to good old Arnold Rimmer at the mention of "flippy salutes" XD

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[info]ninwhore
2010-12-19 02:04 am UTC (link)
Ok... Why does that one user have a picture of a man in camo skirt? Just so he could make a 'This is what the uniforms will be' joke? That's... An odd thing to hold onto for hopefully the right situation.

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[info]platedlizard
2010-12-19 02:28 am UTC (link)
Hmm, yeah, you know? That is kinda funny.

On the other hand, I'm betting roughly a quarter of those guys are trolls.

The Fark thread is also pretty amusing and much less rage-inducing for once. It's like some kind of Christmas miracle, even right-wingers like bookman are saying that it's about time. There's a couple trolls of course, but far less then I thought there would be.

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[info]ninwhore
2010-12-19 04:44 am UTC (link)
I'm going to pretend they're all trolls. It'll make me feel better.

Even my mom who I've heard say that stupid 'it's not Adam and Steve' quote before thought Don't Ask, Don't Tell was BS. (Then again I think she's made herself become more open minded because she thought I was gay for a little while but that's a story for another time)

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[info]darksumomo
2010-12-20 06:35 am UTC (link)
even right-wingers like bookman are saying that it's about time.

*Blink* I know the guy. Small world.

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[info]bacon_lover
2010-12-19 08:36 am UTC (link)
I have tried a couple of times to parse this comment:

,i>To: RatherBiased.com

any assholes who supported this have been traitors and upheld the commie manifesto to any who say this is not big deal then get your head out of your ass as this now means they can say they can die for their country but cannot marry therefore they should be overturning DOMA, then it is the law recognized by the feds therefore teach it in schools and then make Revs etc marry them otherwise they are hate crimes

I will donate all my money now to any traitor to the military voted for this in the GOP</i>

Does this person hate the repeal, or do they like it? Or do they do both? I'm so confused.

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[info]vejiicakes
2010-12-19 11:28 am UTC (link)
As far as I can tell, they're angry because they believe allowing gays to serve (openly) will give them a good zinger to use when it comes to demanding, well, the rest of their rights.

I will donate all my money now to any traitor to the military voted for this in the GOP

..... and.. I guess.. they want to give this person money as.. punishment? Yeah, I'm lost too now.

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[info]duraniedrama
2010-12-19 04:33 pm UTC (link)
I think it's something like "if we overturn this and allow gays to openly serve in the military, the next thing you know they'll be arguing that if they're allowed for fight and die for their country they should be allowed to marry the people they love!"

This guy seems to think that this would be a bad thing.

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[info]bigbigtruck
2010-12-20 06:35 am UTC (link)
It's either the valium or the missing commas, but I can't parse that at all.

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[info]the_sun_is_up
2010-12-21 10:18 pm UTC (link)
Once more, with commas!

Any assholes who supported this have been are traitors and upheld are upholding the commie manifesto. To any who say this is not big deal: then Get your head out of your ass as this now means they can say that they can die for their country but cannot marry — therefore they should be overturning DOMA. Then it is the law recognized by the feds, therefore they will teach it in schools and then make Revs etc marry them. Otherwise they are hate crimes.

I will donate all my money now to any traitor-to-the-military who voted for this in the GOP.

Yeah I got nothing on the last sentence. ?__?

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[info]barankhy
2010-12-24 08:36 am UTC (link)
Hmm, I think you still made a few mistakes.

Let me try:

WAH WAH WAH snebedu bork bork bork

There. Fix'd.

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[info]lilychan
2010-12-19 04:32 am UTC (link)
Oh, this isn't a dream. ♥

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[info]miraba
2010-12-19 06:55 am UTC (link)
It's about time.

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[info]missmercurial
2010-12-19 07:42 am UTC (link)
About damn time. When will people get it through their heads: a person is a person, no matter who they choose to have sex with. If they're someone who is brave and patriotic enough to serve, that bravery and patriotism isn't going to vanish when it comes out they happen to like to bump uglies with members of the same rather than the opposite sex. I guess maybe I'm just crazy like that, but I really don't give a crap who someone else has sex with, so long as both parties are of age and consenting; it's none of my business, it's none of your business, and it's certainly not the US military's business! Good for them repealing this, finally!

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[info]underwaterowl
2010-12-19 09:25 am UTC (link)
I really, honestly thought this wouldn't happen for years. I have never been so happy to be proven wrong.

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[info]rosehiptea
2010-12-19 06:32 pm UTC (link)
Seconded!

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[info]gardnerhill
2010-12-19 09:36 pm UTC (link)
A mighty "Hoo-Rawwwww!!!" echoes from Castro Street.

And somewhere in Valhalla, Alexander and Hephaistion clink their wine cups together with Barry Goldwater. (Julius Caesar and the King of Bythindia are down the bar making faces at the mead.) "About bloody time," says war hero Alan Turing.

DADT always worked more like "Accuse, Court-Martial and Discharge Uppity Wimmenz Soldiers Who Turned MY Dick Down." Very enlightening to see the panicked straightboyz howling that homos will now be able to Tailhook THEM the way they've made life hell for servicewomen all these years.

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[info]portkey
2010-12-21 10:07 am UTC (link)
And somewhere in Valhalla, Alexander and Hephaistion clink their wine cups together with Barry Goldwater. (Julius Caesar and the King of Bythindia are down the bar making faces at the mead.) "About bloody time," says war hero Alan Turing.

This made me smile a lot.

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[info]fevered_ego
2010-12-20 12:01 am UTC (link)
Tee hee, look how mad the wingnuts are!

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