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• mdlve commented on What happens now?
  While I appreciate that many people don't think under-18's are fully human, I think that you're being unreasonably harsh to say they're irrelevant. Are they irrelevant as human beings? No. Are they irrelevant as voters? Yes. I don't set the rules, and for whatever reason most countries seem to have settled on 18 being adulthood and thus the threshold for the right to vote....
• whitroth commented on What happens now?
  Y'know, as I get older, I find myself getting really emotional over things I wouldn't have, long ago. I suspect a *lot* of it is watching the US (and a lot of the world) go downhill from the hopes we had in the sixties and seventies. Joe Biden is *really* not who I wanted... but I watched a replay of the memorial they did for the 400k dead. No politics at *all*. And the piece of filth who will be gone tomorrow couldn't be bothered to show up....
• JBS commented on What happens now?
  SFReader @ 1379: This is just a sampling of public unis which are much cheaper but only if you're a state resident. Yeah - if you're a military cadet, makes sense to go to a military college - but for the rest, really? https://www.collegexpress.com/lists/list/percentage-of-out-of-state-students-at-public-universities/360/ When I got home from Iraq in 2005 I knew I wasn't going to get my old job back. The law says they've got to give you your old job back, but it doesn't apply if the company has been sold & moved (all of the jobs) overseas. So I looked around for another new career...
• JBS commented on What happens now?
  whitroth @ 1406: Costs for college: as others have mentioned, the veterans' benefits dropped by the end of the sixties, screwing the Viet vets. The changes in the GI Bill that affected Vietnam Vets took place in the mid-late 50s, post-Korean War. Those veteran's benefits were considered suitable for a peace-time military. The post-Vietnam benefit cuts didn't affect Vietnam vets as such. The cuts affected veterans who entered military service AFTER the draft was abolished. Benefits for Vietnam vets were not as generous as those for veterans of WW2 or Korea, but those benefit reductions came before the Vietnam War....
• whitroth commented on What happens now?
  Yep. I wasn't watching closely... but we know how much the GOP "values" those who serve....