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neku wrote

Reply to Joe Biden has cancer by flabberghaster

given his age and position its fucking insane that his doctors weren't monitoring him like hawks for prostate cancer metastasis. nearly all men have prostate cancer past 80 and to some extent that's fine - most die from other causes before they're really affected - but once it leaves the prostate for other organs that's when the risk of dying from cancer specifically goes way up. i'm surprised they weren't more diligent about biopsying cells and analysing them for their potential to spread. maybe they thought he didn't have much time left anyway?

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twovests wrote

Reply to Pointer Pointer by cowloom

I swear I saw this, like, 20 years ago. I'm happy that it's still around :D

So many delightful olde internet things

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flabberghaster wrote

Reply to comment by cowloom in Do people generally understand that the transgender military ban in the US is a very bad thing? by twovests

It's true that no one should join the military but the right to join the military is part of what the state considers to be the rights conferred on you for being a full citizen. When they deem you ineligible to do this core thing that's part of civic life, they're saying you're less of a valid person.

No one should join the military. But the government saying "you are officially an outgroup of undesirables" is very serious.

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twovests OP wrote (edited )

Reply to comment by cowloom in Do people generally understand that the transgender military ban in the US is a very bad thing? by twovests

I thought I'd addressed this though. I'm not talking about the individual level; we're agreed about the moral character of military work.

The issues with "if it were me" aside, I'm talking about how the military is an avenue for participation in the US, on the demographic level. Sex work, comparatively, is actively expunged. Trans people are being removed because it's not "honorable, truthful, and disciplined". That is to say, trans people are fraudulent.

Maybe it'll stop there somehow, maybe the world is made of pudding. More likely, this is discrimination that will just impact every trans person in the US, even leftie trans people who dislike the military.

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cowloom wrote

Reply to Do people generally understand that the transgender military ban in the US is a very bad thing? by twovests

A deal with the devil might present certain "opportunities for advancement" for the individual involved, but that doesn't change the fact of it being a deal with the devil. I met a trans woman IRL who told me about how she fled a small christofash town after receiving death threats by joining the military, and the thought of "how many poor people of color suffered, directly or indirectly, as a result of her participation in the military?" crossed my mind. If it were me, I would try to find literally any other way to survive - even turning to sex work if I had to - besides joining the US military. If that were the only option, I'd have to think long and hard about whether joining to save my own life would cause more harm to others than good to me in the long run.

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twovests wrote

Reply to Dominoes by Ruby

<3<3 i really liked this autobiographical style of post. i have nothing to add but i feel like i know you a bit better now

thank you for posting, since i wanted to see it, and i wanna be ur friend

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