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Jeff G's avatar

Hillary won the popular vote FFS. if she hadn’t run a flawed campaign in a couple swing states, she’d have been president.

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Frank's avatar

Hillary has been quoted as saying "the future is female". Sounds like a Nazi saying "the future is Aryan". Would you really want her in the Oval Office? Oh - and she said that women are the primary victims of war. Imagine that.

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ClemenceDane's avatar

Yes I wanted her in the oval office.

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Frank's avatar

Would you also have voted for Hitler? Femi-nazi, Nazi, same thing, different target.

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Jeffrey Saunier's avatar

Most likely very true, no disagreement. Some day soon it will happen.

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ClemenceDane's avatar

Any woman who is able to reach the level of power Hillary had will be demonized so badly that she probably won't win. Of course, had she won, misogyny would have skyrocketed and affected all women. Women would have been punished en masse for her win. It would still have been worth it, though.

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Frank's avatar

Do you realize that only men have to register for the military draft? That only women have reproductive rights? That there is far more funding for breast cancer than prostate cancer? Do you think Hillary would have changed any of that?

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ClemenceDane's avatar

Men also control the House, the Senate, the Presidency, The Supreme Court, the Armed Forces, and always have. They decide who goes to war. They didn't even let women join the Armed forces if they wanted to until recently. If you get to decide everything and keep women from participating, then it makes sense that you are the ones who register for the draft. When women get the Presidency, the majority of Congress, the majority of officers including five star generals;, the majority of SCOTUS, the majority of CEOs of the Fortune 500 including all the war profiteers, then the common woman can register for the draft.

Reproductive rights can never be fully equal because the woman is the one stuck carrying the baby for nine months and giving birth. Yes, men should be allowed to opt out of fatherhood. I agree with that. But they shouldn't be allowed for force a woman to carry a baby she doesn't want to. Once they get artificial wombs women can transfer their embryo to the rent-a-womb and the man can take over if he wants. But that hasn't happened yet.

Yes I think prostate cancer should get more funding. Guess who needs to get off their butts and organize that and fundraise for it like women did? Men.

No, I don't think HIllary would have changed much of that, though I don't think any of that is really the President's job. I think she would have done fine as President. I don't think Trump is going to get more funding for prostate cancer or instate the draft for women.

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some guy's avatar

I think you are right, because it will have been the first time for a female. I am always interested in how differently people act to first exposure to anything versus being able to "act like you have been there before". The first one pays the price and makes it normal for those who follow.

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Jeffrey Saunier's avatar

Serious discussion point. Will she be of Asian descent or Hispanic?

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