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[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 4 points 23 minutes ago (1 children)

Oh no please don't send highly trained members of our military home where they can protect and train their fellow Americans!

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 3 points 11 minutes ago

Looks like well-regulated militias are back on the menu

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 1 points 6 minutes ago

How many times in our history are Americans going to get duped into hating people they never even interact with and know nothing about?

None of these people know trans people. These morons have just been conditioned to hate them regardless of not even knowing them. It's pathetic. They've never been hurt, or even inconvenienced by a trans person. Bigot fucks.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 4 points 53 minutes ago (1 children)

Are there actually 15K trans soldiers in the army, or is this just another number that he pulled out of his ass?

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 2 points 9 minutes ago* (last edited 9 minutes ago)

Transgender people are significantly more likely to serve in the US military than the general US population.[178][179] According to 2014 estimates from the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law and Public Policy, despite the ban on military service, about 21.4% of the total transgender population in the US is estimated to have served in the military. In May 2014, an estimated 15,500 transgender individuals served on active duty or in the Guard or Reserve forces.[22] Wikipedia

So it’s a real number he just thinks military=army like the fake loser he is.

[–] Wes4Humanity@lemm.ee 15 points 1 hour ago

Good... We'll need them for the resistance

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 32 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Ahh, yes. Purging the armed forces. Nothing sinister about that. Just restoring the professional military service.

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 hours ago

I mean outside of America we are still going to all let this happen. We are all marching straight into WW3 like the "this is fine" meme.

Should we survive as a species I look forward to 50 years from now where America adopts strong anti-facism laws like Germany has.

Question is, who is the good guy in this new world we are entering?

FWIW as a Canadian we are so fucked. America is going to come knocking for our resources soon and we won't be able to say no.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I mean I support reducing the army. Can we kick out all cis men next?

[–] Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Only if the base assumption is that they're all gay, and they only get kicked out if they tell us they're straight, otherwise we aren't asking.

[–] steventhedev@lemmy.world 32 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

My immediate thought is that Klinger will be happy.

Trump's legacy will be long term damage to national security, rampant racism and discrimination, and widespread corruption.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

I was once near to (but did not interact with) Jamie Farr maybe 10 years ago. It's really hard to see him and not picture him in a dress.

[–] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 15 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

It would be a good move for Biden to offer them honorable discharges now... it'll be better than what they'll get if they wait.

[–] bizzle@lemmy.world 9 points 3 hours ago

He won't because he doesn't care.

Indeed, I'm surprised he doesn't do it first to show the "moderate republicans" that he's on their side.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 6 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

That's a lot of hard to replace talent. I don't think anyone I'm the military will let him go through with this. How anyone can support this mong is beyond me.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 hours ago

He's already working on purging military leadership so only Trump loyalists are left. If he orders a purge of trans people it will happen. Everyone saying "he can't really do this" is still in living in hopeful dreams. Reality is that Trump will be in charge and surrounded by fanatical loyalists running all branches of government and the military. The dangers for his chosen scapegoats are real.

[–] valek879@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 hours ago

Not something anyone can stop if he chooses to go through with it. He is the commander of the armed forces. He can make sweeping policies like this that fuck up everything.

[–] rxbudian@lemmy.ca 42 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

They can form their own Blackwater and charge gazilion dollars to operate in the same places as they were before

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 23 points 10 hours ago

You joke but that's why they want to fuck up the military. PMCs lobby too and they're willing to do everything in a war from flying the planes to being grunts on the line.

[–] lychee@lemmy.blahaj.zone 75 points 18 hours ago (6 children)

The ideological score here must be worth more to Trump than the strength of America's military, already hurting for new recruits, which says a lot and frankly scares the fuck out of me

[–] BigPotato@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago

Well, the problem is you're thinking logically. It's an ideological victory on both ends for him.

Conservatives view this as strengthening the military, not weakening it.

The actual strength of America's Military doesn't matter because they don't have hostile nations on their borders. So when America's Military loses some of their force projection ability it can be used to say we're turning towards isolationist policy, which is also a win for him. (From the Putin angle and from the Conservative one)

And, again, if you point out that this move will weaken the American Military, well what are you? A terrorist who doesn't believe they have the greatest, manliest fighting force ever seen?

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 86 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Weakening the USA's defenses seems to be a consistent theme with Trump.

[–] lychee@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 17 hours ago

I think this signals the beginning of a very tough era for trans people more than it does anything about national security. But we shall see

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[–] QuincyPeck@lemmy.world 230 points 23 hours ago (7 children)

Just going to completely wreck US cybersecurity defense.

[–] doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Next they'll go after the furries and take all the navy's data centers offline

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 86 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

It has long been said that if all the furries and catgirls disappeared it would cause the internet to collapse overnight.

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[–] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 79 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Coding socks are the new contraband.

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[–] Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win 198 points 23 hours ago (8 children)
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[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 76 points 21 hours ago
[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 21 points 18 hours ago

Yikes. Not a good decision.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 20 points 18 hours ago

Would love to see him personally try to kick even one of them out of anything. Pathetic piece of shit.

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