this post was submitted on 05 Mar 2025
168 points (98.8% liked)

politics

20722 readers
3383 users here now

Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!

Rules:

  1. Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.

Links must be to the original source, not an aggregator like Google Amp, MSN, or Yahoo.

Example:

  1. Articles must be relevant to politics. Links must be to quality and original content. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and rehosted or stolen content are not allowed. Check your source for Reliability and Bias here.
  2. Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
  3. No memes, trolling, or low-effort comments. Reposts, misinformation, off-topic, trolling, or offensive. Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
  4. Vote based on comment quality, not agreement. This community aims to foster discussion; please reward people for putting effort into articulating their viewpoint, even if you disagree with it.
  5. No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.

That's all the rules!

Civic Links

• Register To Vote

• Citizenship Resource Center

• Congressional Awards Program

• Federal Government Agencies

• Library of Congress Legislative Resources

• The White House

• U.S. House of Representatives

• U.S. Senate

Partnered Communities:

• News

• World News

• Business News

• Political Discussion

• Ask Politics

• Military News

• Global Politics

• Moderate Politics

• Progressive Politics

• UK Politics

• Canadian Politics

• Australian Politics

• New Zealand Politics

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
168
Trump’s second trans military ban shows that the old Republican party is dead. It’s all MAGA now. (www.lgbtqnation.com)
submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
14 comments fedilink hide all child comments
all 15 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

I feel like this is giving the GOP too much credit. The "old Republican party" never wanted trans in the military, and given how small the percentage of trans people in the US, I don't know that it will majorly impact readiness. But even if it would have, would have been an acceptable sacrifice to any time period of republicans. To pretend like the Rs of the past wouldn't have celebrated this at any time is looking back at the past with opaque rose glasses. It is hallucinating a time that never was.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Meet the new Republicans, same as the old Republicans.

It's just the mask is off.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm not a fan of the US military, but as a supporter of LGBT rights it is important to acknowledge that military service has historically been an effective means of gaining public sympathy for expanded civil rights in the US. (The most obvious examples being African-American service during the Civil War and WW2.) In the context of the militaristic US culture, forbidding people from the military is inherently a clear declaration that they are lesser and unworthy.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I am not a fan of the military either but agreed, the military is a reliable vehicle for upward mobility for many marginalized/disadvantaged groups. If the choice is between living in poverty forever or signing your soul away for 4 years in exchange for a college education you'd never afford otherwise, I can't fault people for taking the only opportunity they are offered.

I'd rather there be better options for people in these situations, but something is at least better than nothing.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

You do realise you're literally advocating for people to do violence, right?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Turns out violence is the answer a lot of the times. Why not do a 4 year training camp at the world's largest and best funded violence delivery machine ever created and learn a few tips.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Great idea. Violence is awesome

[–] [email protected] 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Depending on your privilege, violence is survival.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

Eat the rich!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

This is the problem of culminating monsters to control. The monsters eventually break free and run amok.

The creators (Newt Gingrich, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Ben Shapiro, etc) all had a hand in it. All these fucks were just grifters for money and power. The problem is all those that grew up on believing the grift, now fully believe the lies. The new crazies fully bought in the fantasy that was being peddled by the grifters.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Dunno about the conclusion here, the Classic republican were also transphobic pieces of shit. The party being taken over by the (more) openly fascist wing that had always been there didn't change their opinion much in this particular case. Likewise, the people burning records that mention climate change are the same who brought snowballs to Congress, they just got more upfront about it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

As long as the US military remains capable of projecting force abroad in defense of America's traditional allies, the US military will be the enemy of the Trump administration.

Hurting LGBT people is fun for the Trumpies, but their overall goal is to wind down America as a world power; and specifically to hand the children of Europe over to Putin's rape gangs.

To be clear, Putin won't get far unless France falls to fascism first, because France has nukes and will remember how to use them for things other than offending Kiwis.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

It's been all MAGA since his first term. Y'all been in a coma?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I don't know why anyone talks about the "old" GOP as if it was a good thing. I'm in my 40s and it's been a travesty since before I was born.