Um....yea, but I did have a certain respect for President Nancy.

It was kind of a "you had to be there" situation because Ray-Gun really was that bad. I don't think there's enough information online or in history books any more.

actually wait that's when bush was in office so maybe i would have but not like this

if you asked me twenty years ago whether we'd be living through a repeat of the civil rights era i wouldn't have guessed yeah lol

Presented without any jokes or silliness because this is very fucking bad!

actually jesus was so woke stay away

REALLY? so restrictive!

I let my kid watch The Lion King too

taht is why the only story my kids can watch are

• american sniper

• bible

• oann

• tik tok

Yeah, same. Outside of this meme, whenever I see "J. K. Rowling said...", I just don't bother to read it. Because why would I devote any of my brain real estate to her putrid TERFy thoughts?

i choose to think about her as little as possible because shes a genuinely ghastly figure to me. she's the literary peter thiel

:( Oh that is disappointing... Hoping you can get it sooner rather than later!

Update: he said i have to get a psych note before I can get the surgery. Really annoying and probably going to add a lot more waiting time before I can actually get the procedure done, kind of bummed out about the whole thing. Oh well.

i appreciate it <3

i think to be a democrat you have to never acknowledge your own mortality

this is the funniest comment about this news i've seen across the entire internet today

either that or he refused to get exams

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?

hope this won't impact his 2028 bid

i forgot to read the article and might not tonight. but perhaps this comment will be enough so that i will remember?

That makes more sense, and I agree with that.

Thank you for articulating this better than I could

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.

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.

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.

i'm writing this comment so i will come back and review this once i have woken up

trans formers. tankies in disguise