It's being reliant on medication - that's a problem for any combat role
Like if you are 100% reliant on Adderall in order to function, you cannot be in a combat role.
Yeah, those fascists totally care about the medical aspect and not the fact that they're trans. Right... /s
Also, not all trans people take meds or surgically transition. Can confirm.
funny how the ban isn't about medication but gender instead. weird how things just coincidentally happen
While I’m very angry at the prejudice within the army, this does seem like an interesting aspect to it I hadn’t heard of before.
But yeah, as someone else said, it sounds like it was not just to combat roles.
The problem is that it's a blanket ban (plus retroactive firing) of all trans people serving in the military, not just an asterisk on serving combat roles.
For non combat roles the exclusion of Trans people is due to military leadership largely hating trans people
Umberto Eco (a survivor of Mussolini’s actual regime) identified this as one of the core traits of Ur-Fascism. Specifically, #8…
The followers must feel humiliated by the ostentatious wealth and force of their enemies.… However, the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.
You will note that Republicans check literally every single box of Umberto Eco’s list.
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fascism
That was my same thought. The enemy is too strong but also too weak?
I am always glad when people share this because whenever I bring it up IRL it seems like nobody else has read it.
I think of this every time I see some egregiously fascist behavior on display in the Trump admin getting defended by people who think the left is overreacting. I wish more people knew about this and understood that it's not some left wing looney saying it, it's a guy who lived through it and can identify it for what it truly is.
This is actually how Russians do their propaganda. NATO is weak but also the greatest threat to our nation. Sending Abrams to Ukraine is pointless as they are useless tanks and Ukraine has already lost, but also sending Abrams is crossing a line and a declaration of war.
Gee, wonder where Trump learned it from?
LOL like Russia isn't depicted the same way by our propaganda? GTFOH...
Sorry, no Orcs allowed, you'll have to leave.
the followers [of fascism] must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak. Fascist governments are condemned to lose wars because they are constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy.
-- Umberto Eco, Ur-Fascism https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fascismGee, wonder where Trump learned it from?
It's Fascism 101.
Zelenskyy is simultaneously a puppet of The West™ and a wizard mind controlling EU and US
You don’t need to learn it from anywhere. Look at the stereotype of cats who love affection when they want it even if you’re busy but who get mad when you initiate when all they’re doing is lying there. All these people have really “done” is not grow out of being whiny, bitch-ass toddlers. They’re just deeply insecure, immature assholes with zero compassion or self-awareness.
While simultaneously having compassion and empathy for billionaire fascist. lol.
You just described my ex. I’ve never known a cat to be that shitty to me though.
The greatest threat to a nation being weak technically isnt a contradiction. If all your enemies are weak, even the most powerful is weak
Is Doublethink a more adequate term?
Yes. And no.
Yes
Schrodinger's energy crisis:
We need to sell public lands for oil extraction since we have an energy crisis!
We need to cancel wind energy and solar facility construction!
Schrödinger’s Election: it’s rigged unless we win.
It was rigged but ALSO we won.
Schrodinger's immigrant: they're both lazy moochers and taking all our jobs.
Schrodinger's immigrant for the Trump era: they're all criminals and have no criminal records... clearly because they're such good criminals.
Classic fascist doublethink. Straight out of the book. The enemy is both strong/dangerous enough to be a serious threat, but the fascist is still somehow very superior to them. 🤷
Schrodinger's tariffs: they're great, except when they hurt my small business.
That's just basic cruelty. "Hurting other people is great"
Schrödingers free speech: You can tweet everything unless it's against Muskrats opinion.
To be fair, they have a problem with trans women in women's sports. They don't have a problem with trans men in men's sports because they can't imagine a situation where a trans man could possibly compete with "real" men.
It goes along with their idea that women are weak, so women are weak athletes and women's sports teams are weak. If you accept that, it's not a big stretch to think that someone who has gone through puberty as a male will have an automatic huge advantage in every women's sport because their body has male characteristics.
On the other hand to them, the military is the ultimate in manly activities. Anybody other than a pure, manly man will be at a disadvantage in anything military. That includes trans men, trans women and regular women. Right now the focus is on trans people, but I'm sure they'll want to kick women out of the military too eventually.
So, if you accept that logic, it makes sense that trans women are too weak for the military, but too strong for women's sports. There's no contradiction there.
There are fewer trans atheists in college sports than there are kids with measles in Texas. Guess which one they want people to focus on.
Also, what the fuck ever happened to "Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"? You cannot tell me in good faith that the <gasp> 'trans threat*' is so great a crisis of inequity and unfairness that the right wing really gives a damn about that.
*sarcasm, people.
It also goes along with their mentality that trans men are simply poor, defenseless women who have been brainwashed into wanting to become strong, powerful men. And also how trans women must be mentally ill. Because how could anyone not want to be a man? Women who want to be men are understandable but misguided, and men who want to be women are sick and to be both pitied and hated - but especially hated.
Schrodinger's Canada: we don't need anything from them, but we'd love to own them anyway.
Schrödingers president. He's a senile moron who shits himself and can't form coherent sentences, but he's also an evil mastermind that is masterfully installing a fascist regime right under our noses!
/s
doublespeak fr
Now that we're solidly in the era of alternative facts, all that seems to register is what a politician says in the moment. It's really depressing to watch both political parties and 99% of voters just shrug their shoulders and go along with the utter stupidity of our political culture, even in full knowledge of its deleterious effects on their own lives.
schrodinger: jeez cmon guys all i did was kill a cat (maybe)
This is a mixed metaphor. Women are kept out of frontline combat much like they’re sidelined to the WNBA: segregated under the guise of inclusion.
watching trump squirm about how all these Mexican gangs got up to Canada.
