JD Vance sets up an account, lies about trans people, gets banned within 20 minutes, cries about it.
Vice President JD Vance’s Bluesky account was suspended within minutes of him joining the platform. His posts criticized medical treatments for transgender youth and claimed pharmaceutical influence over healthcare decisions.
Do you think JD understands the irony that posting an exerpt from Justice Thomas that is against appealing to the authority of "experts", is, in itself, in fact appealing to the authority of an "expert", Justice Thomas, to support his stance? His stance of course being that medical treatment of minors with gender dysphoria in a way that does anything but reinforce the gender on their birth certificate is bad medicine/science. And both Vance and Justice Thomas also, being... I see here "not experts in anything remotely to do with medical science, gender dysphoria, adolescent development, or any field at all that would inform any semblance of a valid opinion on the matter of how to properly treat these kids medically" might, in fact, make their stance a little bit non-authoritative. Maybe both of them should stay in their lanes of bad faith partisan political theatre, bribery, and forcing the sprint we are all on towards fascism. That seems to be where their real skill sets are.
Do you think JD understands
I'mma stop you right there and say no
it's not even factually accurate since the majority of medical organizations agree there's no harm in transitioning.
Vance isn’t talking to us. He’s talking to his supporters.
In their world, scientists are icky, and therefore can’t be trusted by red-blooded conservatives. Clarence Thomas, however, is GOP Approved.
Vance is somewhat of an expert on gender and sexuality though, being the cough fucker he is...
it's going well.
also lol'ing at the fact that he's jd-vance-1 because jd-vance was taken by a parody account which has a big banner reading "I did not fuck a couch".
fyi he didn't get banned; https://bsky.app/profile/jd-vance-1.bsky.social
i do recommend this moderation list as he's already on it: https://bsky.app/profile/randomvariable.co.uk/lists/3kc2e7efqqw2k
I wonder if he was mass reported and temporarily automod banned
i assume that or they banned him before they confirmed it was him
He could join one of the Nazi mastodon instances, although I bet he is already on his boss’.
I mean, why go there when X is already the nazi twitter.
That’s exactly why it was doomed to failure the moment Elon was forced to complete his purchase of Twitter.
He should join one of the tankie Lemmy instances for a real choice treatment. That would be fun for to watch for 5 minutes
What we would give for that
I'd pay so much money to see JD get 1v1000 dogpiled by tankies on any topic. It might be one of the few times i'd be on their side.
They'd just split. There are trans rights deniers there, like that one admin/dev. Some are closer to MAGA than Marx in their allegiances.
Is Justice Thomas a doctor or a scientist? No?
Then who gives a shit what his opinion is. He should be listening to the experts...not contradicting them. If his ruling is based solely on his personal feelings on this topic, then he needs to recuse himself from this case.
This looks like some good sealioning. He probably didn’t write it himself. I think he was playing to his fans and trying to discredit Bluesky and its community guidelines. I wonder if Musk paid him, or if he did this on his own.
sealioning
Damn, didn't even touch my coffee and already learning something today https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning
What a pos. nobody is "pushing" these medicines on kids. it's ultimately the kid's decision about whether they want these medications or not and I'm not aware of any cases to the contrary. also these medications have been used for literal decades so how can they be experimental? how do you expect people to trust you when you lie so blatantly? glad he got banned.
Happy Pride Month ❤️
also these medications have been used for literal decades so how can they be experimental?
Honest answer: the drugs are being used off-label. It's not even experimental, it's basically a wildcat way of using them. An experiment would involve control groups and a double-blind trial, among other things.
I'm saying this because this is what rightoids are saying as criticism and you need to be able to counter that with facts. Right now, there just isn't enough information and that's what they're capitalizing on.
The account is back. I reported it for misinformation and lying.
He’s not wrong about medical companies influencing patient care. He’s just wrong about who and why.
Exactly. Why would they give patients long out of patent meds that aren't even habit forming for this? Nah, if you want to make money with medicine you gotta go the Sackler route. Every trans person I know's HRT brand of choice is "generic please"
Not only that, but targeting the ~20% of the population that's post-menopausal cis women with all the benefits of HRT would be a WAY bigger market than the 1-5% of the population that might be trans. If it was about making money on HRT, they're certainly not going for a very large market.
Not only that, but wouldn't Big Pharma™ be lobbying heavily against all the anti-trans healthcare bills? Seems like they're doing a pretty awful job of maintaining their market.
Imagine thinking that one Clarence Thomas is less corrupt than thousands of doctors.
Coming from Vance, I like how the logic underlying the statements presumes a profit motive undermines the result.
"hello fellow humans, im trying to communicate with humanity"- JD vance.
Isn't he happy with his Truth Social account?
You can't Own The Libs from over there
his account is still active. just checked. this post is also still up.
Apparently, they reinstated it saying they just wanted to confirm it was really him before fully activating it.
Corpos will never let you down. Only throw you there.
I was generally curious why posting that would get him banned. It's def contrary to popular opinions on the platform but doesn't violate any rules.
So, here we are. The VP of the supposedly most powerful nation can't even integrate with humans.
We knew this before the election.
be me
young
want to have long hair
such a thing is not allowed because i cannot consent to it
also my opinion is probably bought by big shampoo
Isn't Truth Social available for people like him?
Talking about the highlighted part of Thomas's statement. They're enshrining anti-intellectualism into court rulings
The biggest delusion in modern society is thinking that a Twitter-like social media network is "the place to go for common sense political discussion and analysis".
I keep hearing the media repeat this bullshit. Twitter is not and never was the "public square". It's a place for morons to be morons and heart each other for being morons.
It's like having an argument in a club but in the club people may reconsider what you had to say upon sobering up
Makes me wonder if the actual public squares, sans idealization, were also a place for morons to be morons and heart each other for being morons.
The account was banned, and then reinstated after being verified.
His first posts didn't get him banned.
It probably didn't do any favours opening up immediately with obvious troll bait.
Those posts read like chatgpt.
Simple hack for a turing test:
Cut all the humanity out of a person.
And this is the point where he playbooks "i was just asking questions i was just being reasonable why are you so mean unreasonable leftist echo chamber etcetc"
Which only works when people let it. A swift "you started ranting crazy bullshit" is what is needed here.
"Bad arguments and substandard science" - AKA, this administration's unofficial motto.
Every accusation is an admission.
Says can’t trust experts because they are clouded by ideology and bribed by industry quotes an judicial expert who’s entire job is to inject right wing ideology into the judicial branch while being motivated by bribes.
Good. Fuck that guy.
no thanks.
he's got a face only a couch could fuck.
I know several brick walls that would love to fuck his face.
He should make a tumblr account. Tumblr admins are happy for people to post death threats against trans people and wishes for genocide, but ban trans people for calling out transphobic pseudoscience and Holocaust denial.
Oh so the reason I can't post on Reddit anymore.
I'm paranoid Discord will begin a banning spree next
Think you're in trouble now? Wait until Trump expires and the real monster shows his "hillbilly ugly" face.
Waiting for him to cave to peer pressure and start doing bumps of Ket off a Twitter influencer's ass with his Peter Thiel approved best friend.
I hope his dick rots off, just so he can get to experience gender-affirming care firsthand.
I'm already seeing reminders on bluesky to JUST block and ignore them. The right wingers who tried invading Bluesky earlier got bored and left cause they all got blocked.
The thing with his argument is that I just struggle to imagine a scenario in which the experts and affected agree and we're better off listening to judges, lawyers, and politicians instead.
There's no reasonable argument from the avenues I'd listen to those groups (such as appeal to fundamental freedoms, rights of the individual, etc) where the position should be to bar these people from receiving treatment they want against expert recommendations.
In short, Mr Vance demonstrates the intellectual rigor I've come to associate with the denizens of Middletown Ohio, and the firm belief in one's own right to be the arbiter of everyone else's life I've come to associate with his ivy league education and tech background.
This is a man who argued with the pope about catholic doctrine a few years after converting and I honestly can't make up something more exaggerated than that
jUsT AsKIng QuEStIoNs
Hahah I'm enjoy the image of him trying to sign up and finding out his names already taken, having to add underscores and finally attempting it with a number as well.
He isn't banned, takes just a second to check.
It was banned, but reinstated after they verified it wasn't a random troll and was indeed the actual troll, JD Vance himself.
That is one stupid sonofabitch.
Public forums should not be censored. We're trying to have a democracy here.
Fascists should be hunted like dogs, but that is apparently uncivil, unlike letting them do as they please and ruin everything and kidnap randos to death camp torture prisons. Which is i guess the height of civility.
So while i agree, censoring them is the compromise.
And until there is an actual free online forum that no single entity pays to host, private companies can do whatever the fuck they want.
Worship the monopoly
He was suspended to ensure it was really him, once they confirmed they reinstated the account.
I still can't believe that a deranged asshole like him is legally allowed to be VP of a nuclear power
If I had to be my-name-1 I'd probably just quit out of embarrassment
good fuck him
As he said, it is a place for common sense discussion. Which just happens to be no place for him and his ilk.
Honestly just let people have their own opinion as long as they don't really fight. Remember that your opinions were suppressed in the past and that now you're basically becoming exactly what the governments were at the time.
On the matter of access to such medication for kids, hell no. Everyone knows kids aren't mature adults and they make stupid decisions. Some may try it because of curiosity, lack of knowledge or even as an act of rebellion against parents/guardians. And that will result at least in loss of fertility. Where did the "adults should protect children" go? Are we only protecting them from predators now? Then might as well let them drink alcohol and buy antipsychotics without prescription.
Btw a mandatory medical examination and a lecture from the doctor about the risks would be nice before making such a decision. Privacy concerns are there but physical safety first imo.
All of the above is obviously my personal opinions.
What did he lie about? (Not on Blue sky and don't plan to be)
Pretty sure he did that on purpose so he can tell the public how awful and disgusting he thinks Bluesky is in the future.
Oh absolutely. He's a slimy little fuckstain.
Yeah, I think it's another step after the recent push of how "BlueSky is dying" because they actively reject assholes, that was going on last week.