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[–] [email protected] 265 points 4 weeks ago (8 children)

Just going to completely wreck US cybersecurity defense.

[–] [email protected] 105 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What's a catgirl? Is there a signup for that?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

No only a test and you just passed. Congrats

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago

Cat ears and tail will be emailed to you. Congratulations recruit. Don't ask how we know where you live :-P.

[–] [email protected] 86 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Coding socks are the new contraband.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 weeks ago

I love/hate that I get all these references lol

[–] [email protected] 52 points 4 weeks ago

It's part of the plan. fucking traitor.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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

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[–] [email protected] 217 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

And still, we let him live.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

A couple of people have tried to go back in time to kill him, but were unsuccessful.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago

They will always be unsuccessful in this timeline. Maybe they managed it in others.

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[–] [email protected] 93 points 3 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 87 points 3 weeks ago (4 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] 94 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Elon will supply robot troops for the clone war.

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Then place them in internment camps. We know where this is going you damn Nazi.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 3 weeks ago

He's already completed the first step, by making them seem inhuman and criminal

Which is ironic, because he's the one who boasted about perving on kids

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Here we go folks, welcome to the hellscape that is the new America

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

Honestly, it was a hellscape before, we just shifted down a level deeper.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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] 46 points 3 weeks ago (10 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

You think with the recruiting problems we have you'd do your best to retain the people we have.

If you can get through basic and fulfill your tasks you should be able to be in the military. If the government doesn't want to pay for "gender affirming care" that's fine. But these people should still be allowed in the military.

Also, what kind of discharge are these people getting? Honorable, General, Dishonorable?

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 weeks 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.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I hope he chokes on a Happy Meal.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago

The happiest meal

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

An easy to get general discharge from the military? I think lots of people with years left to serve are going to enjoy leaving early with all of their benefits.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

I have a feeling most of the benefits will be going out the door behind them shortly thereafter.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 weeks ago

How to create government jobs, while also remaining a christofascist overlord. Just like old times, eh?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago

Looks like well-regulated militias are back on the menu

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago

Welcome to the legion, 15,000 new anons.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago

Yikes. Not a good decision.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks 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.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks 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?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (7 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Maybe we’ll finally see strict gun laws, albeit aimed at disarming the opposing populous.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Ooor, we create a well regulated militia with 15,000 new soldiers!

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