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Lessons of history. The US depended on draftees to fight the Vietnam War. Russia is depending on draftees to fight the Ukraine War. Went badly for LBJ and Tricky Dick. Going badly for Putie. Many young men have died in both wars, with more to die in Ukraine.
Good analogy, skeptical.
Interviews with captured Russian soldiers repeat the theme: “We were duped”.
They are deserting in droves, abandoning or even sabotaging their equipment.
Five generals, so far, have died in Putin’s war.
There certainly was a U.S. of A. military draft. [happy day in my life was in my senior year of high school, hearing Nixon “suspend” further induction by the draft.] But I’ve seen several estimates of those in-country in Vietnam, all adding up to something similar to this American Legion
“We are the Mighty” put it this way
It is way too early to know the make-up of the Russian troops — but the official version is those drafted serve for training and in tasks inside Russia. Those fighting in Ukraine are “contracted” — which is to say, they signed up for service after their draft. There may have been deception or coercion to get them to sign up. And Russia confessed that some draftees were in Ukraine in non-combat roles like “truck driver.”
And somewhat undercutting the relevance of conscription as a key element … Ukraine also has mandatory service.
A big share of the U.S. enlistees, including me, only enlisted because we were going to be drafted and thought we could get a better deal enlisting. It was no rah rah rally round the flag deal.
What he said. Turned out to be one the most formative events of my life.
And, some of us discovered that "applicants wearing orthodontic appliances requiring active treatment are ineligible for induction".
Exactly, V. Two of my older brothers got their letters from the draft board, and immediately went to the nearest Air Force recruitment office. Another brother and I were were in the lottery, and both of us received high numbers, well above the cutoff for the draft.
A friend got his notice and did a little research. As he told it, he discovered that nuclear subs couldn't navigate up the Mekong River, so he enlisted in the Navy.
Like today’s quote. The corollary is to do the right thing at the right time for the right reason.
Not willing to die for Putins' needy ego, I guess.
“today’s quote……” The source is important too. I rate Olivier as one of the 10 greatest actors of the 20th century.
It’s sad that he has come under posthumous fire from the woke, progressive, cancel culture, because a couple of his greatest roles 50 plus years ago, in “Khartoum” and “Othello,” were done in darker face.
He was acting in his time. Haven't actually seen any of that "woke, progressive cancel culture" at work trying to denigrate him over it. Maybe your news feed is aggregating mole hills?
Acting should be color blind. The interplay of characters and dramatic conflict that illumines human experience is the point- not the relative melanation of the characters.
Denzel Washington as “Macbeth” gave a breathtaking performance. Yet some traditionalists pushed back – Shakespeare’s characters were white unless noted otherwise, they fumed. Olivier also created a noteworthy Othello, and had to wear blackface as the character was specifically created as a “Moor”. When Olivier acted, nobody was thinking of casting a black actor as Othello.
It’s worth noting that Othello is one of the most anti-Semitic plays written- during a time of religious persecution, Shakespeare made clear that he really, really disliked Jews. But even the wokest of us wouldn’t dare cancel the culture to make Shakespeare’s writing more PC.
Same thing happened with the multiracial cast of “Wheel of Time”, from Jordan and Sanderson’s fantasy epic. Readers had a mental image of these characters as white. How dare the “woke” filmmakers have another vision?
I didn’t see right wing critics pushing back on complaints about multiracial casts. What is the opposite of “woke”? Comatose?
Phoenix, don’t recall where I saw it. But, I think it was specifically directed at Olivier in “Khartoum,” where he played the Mahdi.
“Othello….anti-Semitic…” So also was “The Merchant of Venice,” with Shylock and his “pound of flesh.”
I saw Khartoum with Charlton Heston at the Center theater which on 16th street right next to the Denver Dry Goods store. Still have memory cells of him walking down the stairs at the end. Denver Dry Goods had the ice skating rink in the winter.
I can look at the last scene anytime I want. Way back when, one could buy program booklets for certain movies. My interest was paying for the ticket and a bag of popcorn. But I did buy the "Khartoum" program and still have it.
That wasn't the Denver Dry, it was the May D and F.
An important addenda to the corollary quote is to do the right thing at the right moment for the right reasons without regard to personal consequences. It is easy to do the right thing when you get rewarded for it but it takes that extra ounce of willpower when you are hurt some way in the process. It takes a more expansive understanding of who you are to do something that benefits the greater good but is disasterous for you personally. It's called a noble sacrifice and can only be done when an individual that doing the right thing in the moment is the highest that a human can attain. The good reason is because only you can commit to that particular act in the moment.
From Julia Ioffe (who knows this stuff really well):
That makes sense and what I was assuming. I hope that Biden & Co. are in this for the long haul both continuing with the supplies and training the Ukrainian military on more advanced technology we can then provide them.
From the CEO of the company that provides Windward's QA resources. A super reputable individual (if you need IT resources, email me and I'll introduce you to him):
I've also queried a friend in Romania about where to donate for Romania & Moldova. I'll pass that on when I get it.
Lauren Boebert Wants People To Wait Until 21 To Declare A Gender Or Sexual Orientation
https://www.wonkette.com/boebert-wants-people-to-wait-until-21-to-declare-a-gender-or-sexual-orientation
"We require people to be 21 to purchase alcohol beverages, and 21 to purchase tobacco products. Why is it so unreasonable to require people to reach a certain level of maturity before making life-altering decisions about their sexuality and identity?"
Like… engaging in sexual activity? Riiiight.
“Life altering decisions”?
What the actual fuck, Lauren? Did you wait until you were 21?
To the best of my knowledge, people do not “decide” to be a gender…they feel it. The only decision is whether to accept one’s self or societies expectations of you. Fuck that, says I.
If, the moment you encounter me, you begin to compare and hold me to a standard of your choosing, I don’t want to hang around with you anyway.
Politics is politics, but human hearts should not be made vulnerable to the pettiness and fear of haters by the supposed leaders of their society. It ain’t right.
The Orange Pretender assembled as many haters as he could find, and rallied them under the flags of their red hot righteousness. Come to find out, HIS flag was the only one that mattered.
Boebert actually makes a bit of a point here, and quite by accident, since this is a complex issue.
I’m reminded that from the late 1970s through early 1990s, Trinidad, Colorado was the sex change capitol of the USA. That was due to the late Dr. Stanley Biber doing his thing at Mount San Raphael Hospital.
Biber never touched anyone under age 21 that I can recall. He had a one year waiting period from the first contact with a patient to actually doing the surgery. During that waiting period, he put patients through several intense batteries of psychological testing to determine if the “change” was actually what the patient wanted.
As part of my human services career, I worked a disability beat for a while. I had a couple of his patients who got the “change;” decided it wasn’t really what they had wanted; and were depressed. Yeah, they had that diagnosis, but were still capable of working.
What’s needed for these young people; whose brains aren’t fully developed yet; is patience and understanding, not hormonal & puberty blocking therapy.There will be time enough later to decide if a change is actually what’s desired.
And…..”plucked his eyebrows on the way, shaved his legs, and he was a she. Hey babe. Take a walk on the wild side.” Song by the late and great Lou Reed, 1972.
The trouble with that approach, Banger, is that while waiting to turn 21 (what ever happened to “old enough to kill, but not for voting”?), changes are occurring that can only be ameliorated, not completely reversed, at great expense, and sometimes great discomfort. Puberty blockers are the way to go until the person is certain their dysphoria isn’t “just a phase”. Nothing irreversible; just either let nature or chemistry take over. And those weren’t just Dr. Bieber’s rules. He was following international standards of care for transfolk. https://www.wpath.org/publications/soc /p>
I'll bet she made more than a few "life-altering" decisions years before she was 21. Just a guess. And we're all waiting for a "certain level of maturity" to show up in her life.
First Amendment, Lauren? What a vapid waste of protoplasm she is
And how old should you have to be in order to decide to drop out of high school?
^^this^^
And you thought climate change was a problem! Oh the horror!
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-04-01/feral-pigs-ravage-california-wildlands-suburbs-hunting
I know, right? Feral Pigs R Bad……and??
crickets.
Feral pigs also are a problem in rural Texas. Sort of a "walking ham" version of the Burmese pythons in southern Florida.
Climate change is a problem, jackass
Governor Sununu: Trump’s “fucking crazy”.
I saw that Sununu quote. Also viewed today on Yahoo News was a quote from Governor Larry Hogan (R-MD) that the DeSantis “Don’t Say Gay” law in Florida is absurd.