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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (9 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago (2 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month 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.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month 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.

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

Blackjack and hookers.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

Yikes. Not a good decision.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 86 points 1 month ago (3 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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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?

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[–] [email protected] 93 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month 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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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Elon will supply robot troops for the clone war.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Might supply them for the other side.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Merchant of death

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