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Reported move would mean loss of 15,000 personnel at a time when the US is struggling to recruit, warn charities

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

How kind of him to protect all the transpeople from having to risk their lives fighting for a fascist state.

[–] HeyJoe 26 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, except I'm sure some were doing it for the benefits so now they lose that plus all the time invested for nothing. I feel bad from that angle.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName 23 points 3 weeks ago

WW3? IM TRANSGENDER CANT TOUCH THIS!

[–] Homescool 53 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Draghetta 18 points 3 weeks ago

After many decades, he is finally getting his section eight!

Who said there was no silver lining in this idiocy?

[–] [email protected] 52 points 3 weeks ago

US military recruitment is so bad they spent ~$10M advertising with the Rock's football league, only to lose recruits AND viewers for the football league.

The national guard spent ~100M on nascar recruiting, which generated 25K recruits. Only 20 of those were qualified (99.92% unqualified). Of those 20, all declined to join.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 3 weeks ago

Reported move would mean loss of 15,000 personnel at a time when the US is struggling to recruit, warn charities

Good (????) job, Trump. Signed, the Middle East.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

When I said I want time travel, this is not what I meant.

Welp... Here we go, back in time.

🙃

...

😖

-Also Wtf? Like if you have people willing to risk their lives to serve the country... let them. What kind of idiot tell volunteers to go away?

Like? Same thing with bussiness. If someone wants to pay for a thing, you sell the thing. Who cares what they look like. They could be an extra-terrestrial alien for all I care. Bussiness is bussiness.

[–] Hope 6 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah I really don't get who this is protecting, how it is improving the military in any way, saving any money, or anything else that could pass for an excuse besides just plain old hate.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago

Trying to purge the military of those likely to defy him, like Hegseth saying women shouldn't serve.

[–] werefreeatlast 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

So I guess this is how you too can earn bone spurs! Just become a woman and that's that. Does it work both ways? 🧐 Asking for a friend. So if I'm a woman biologically, and I get a surgery to reverse my hoo-haa into a dingdong, then will they kick me out of the military? How about at Wall Mart? Can I be allowed to work at Walmart and be allowed to exist? Like am I worth the air I breathe? Good thing I'm just a closeted gay person who is also bi.

[–] andros_rex 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Phalloplasty is so heavy duty that you’d be out of commission for several years anyway. Even with the other option, metadioplasty, (basically, they cut loose the clitoris and sometimes reroute urethra) you’d be out at least 6 months. I doubt they’d allow surgeries until after you served for some amount of time, just hormones.

[–] werefreeatlast 2 points 3 weeks ago

Sounds like an impossible dream although I do know at least 3 trans people.

[–] werefreeatlast 5 points 3 weeks ago

I hope they don't start rounding up all of us gay people....oh wait. Hold on! Wait a minute!

C'mon! Round us up! Yeah! Round all of us up! All of us together in the same sexy room!

[–] FlashMobOfOne 4 points 3 weeks ago

I am all for Trump's incompetency causing problems for the war machine. LFG.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Submitting the telegraph to progressive politics is just bait