Joe Biden pardons all veterans convicted and discharged over their sexuality or gender identity

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Joe Biden pardons all veterans convicted and discharged over their sexuality or gender identity
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If he's able to do it now he's been about to do it the last 3 years. He held their rights hostage for power

Better than not doing it at all

No it's not. Anyone holding people's rights hostage for power is psychopathic

Putin says unranians don't deserve the power to light up their homes, or the power to have anything more than rubble..

Are you calling his eminence, Putin, a psychopath?

Unranians? Like, folks from Uranus?

Biden is holding peoples rights hostage

regardless of what biden is or isnt doing, trump would just remove the rights entirely, so still gotta vote for biden

Yes, it literally is.

Doing it late is bad, as you describe.

Doing it never is worse.

Even if this were true (which it's not) it's still better to have rights than to not have them

The ultimate end-goal of a president’s first term is to be elected for a second term, and we Americans have very short attention spans. Stuff like this that seems like it should obviously have been done as soon as someone with the will to change it comes into power is more politically beneficial to do in an election year. It’s a shit system, certainly, but even the (relatively speaking) “good politicians” have to operate within it.

They can't do everything everywhere all at once.

Then suddenly when they need votes they find the time

I'm happy they did the right thing. I lived under Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Trump. (Don't really remember Bush Sr or Regan personally) And one team helps us, and the other fucks us over. I will remember this in the voting booth.

They did the right thing when they needed votes, not because it was the right thing to do.