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    See? Trump said he’d create new jobs, and now you can start an exciting new career Disappearing Undesirables, or maybe even become an Official Military Restroom Pecker-Checker! Are we great again yet?

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    In the American Regime, the military checks your peepees to put you into the bathroom they deem appropriate

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    The only republicans worried about this issue are the ones who have sucked random dicks off of Craigslist or something

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    This sounds like an excellent use of time and money for the military. Right up there with sending troops to LA to stand around and watch protests, but not to TX to help with search and rescue. Because lives don’t matter only control matters.

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      As a resident of a country that the United States has recently threatened to annex, anything that reduces the effectiveness of the American military is a good thing.

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    Whew, that’s a relief. As a completely straight, totally not gay, heterosexual male, knowing that I will only get to see the penises of other men in the bathroom gives me an immeasurable sense of release relief.

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    Imagine serving because you believe that you’re protecting the country from a foreign military threat, only to be tasked with verifying genital compliance for bathrooms.

    It would be better to shovel shit. Way more honour and respect from society.

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    WHY would anyone, in this day and age, volunteer to become a fascist bootlicking piece of shit member of the military? I can’t respect anyone who is ok with this.

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      I’ve reached a point where I refuse any longer to hold any reverence or respect for current military. Just like cops. The military cock worship of parades, holidays, and discounts everywhere needs to go away.

      How about discounts for teachers, or road workers, or social workers.

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        For me, it’s a complete distaste for people that keep trying to slowly soft-boot a “military class” inside our society, by way of all the things you mention. The Romans had one of those; no thanks. Yes, let’s throw more goodwill and financial support to people taking care of our kids and infrastructure instead.

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        I’m proud of you making that change consciously, but damn you held on for a long time.

        people don’t get respect for what group they belong to. they get respect for who they are

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      A lot of these people were in the military before the second Trump admin made it obvious that they’re going to have to work for an actual fascist dictatorship.

      Secondly, for a lot of young people, the G.I Bill is the only real way to afford an education. You know that whole student debt issue that is crippling people financially for decades? Joining the military is a way to bypass that.

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        The uncomfortable pill is that at any point in the last many decades (ie: after abolishment of the draft) there was no good reason to join. WMDs? Known lie. Vietnam and not drafted? Known lie. (Tonkin was a lie)

        That GI bill part is so very true and sad. It’s on purpose, of course. Expensive college and poor people means … more fodder.

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          The last honorable war we were in was WWII, anyone who signed up after the Korean war is a murderer.

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            I would posit only portions of our behavior in ww1 and ww2 were honorable. Supporting the creation of zionist colonialism and nuking a couple cities is … not honorable. Also, I tried to say it and it may have come across odd but those drafted are prisoners compared to those who volunteered. They are not the same.

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              Yeah, true, we definitely did some fucked up shit in the world wars, but at least I can respect the people who joined.

              Also, full sympathy to those who were drafted. I should have put more emphasis on “signed up”

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        Plus, it’s not like you can just join the military and quit when you don’t like how things are going. Unless things have changed radically, when you enlist you’re signing up for 3,6 or even 8 years of service with very little recourse for getting out (without messing up your career and maybe even your life).

        I’m sure for a lot of people working in the military is just a job. It’s a luxury to choose jobs based on personal politics and a lot of people can’t afford that now.

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          I agree with a lot of the stuff being said here, but it doesn’t really help the case of service members that they pretty overwhelmingly voted for Trump.

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            Yeah I know. Coming from military parents, I’m trying to not judge people too much since i know theres amazing people who serve, but I agree there’s strong maga bro energy in the military and it sucks.

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        I reckon it does to some of these assholes, yeah. Plus they get to preboard flights!

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          I just read that they were hiring thousands of new ICE agents to round up illegals. Who do you think is going to sign up for that duty? And get paid for it, too? Not the best and brightest, we know that.

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            Part of the transition from a democratic government to an oppressive regime requires filling the military and police with only your supporters and thugs. This is all part of the plan.

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              I think many Westerners have forgotten the inherent power of the police force and the military even in national discourse. We’ve grown accustomed to them being, perhaps thugish , but not a threat to the societal order and, at least to a certain degree, to the liberties that we generally enjoy. Legitimacy and power ultimately stems from military force and the monopoly of violence, and USA is hearing towards Gilead.

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              Whoa.

              But there were also a handful of women ICE applicants and a lot of men of color. The deportation officer applicant pool was, I felt, shockingly diverse—one might say it looked like America.

              People attempting to hide in the belly of the beast, perhaps? I wonder how that’s gonna work out.

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                Sadly a lot of US-born and raised Hispanics can be just as racist, if not more racist, against migrants and refugees as white Americans. In particular Mexicans and Chicanos (who represent a massive portion of Border Patrol cops) tend to not like each other.

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                I suspect many are just looking for a paycheck. ICE agents are slated to be pretty well paid from what I’ve read. We just handed over a historic amount of money to them as well, and even though I expect a large amount of institutional corruption, a significant percentage of it is going to go to personnel.

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      There’s a horrible number of people who either don’t care or like it this way. I’m not sure which is more revolting.

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    Urinal cameras with automated penis shaker arms that automatically measure the male population by penis size and organize them in alphabetical order.

    Alright roll call!

    Albert 6"!
    Hugeman 8.7".
    Little Stwert 9.2"!

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      It doesn’t. But in true bully fashion, they only feel better about themselves by making someone else’s life worse and they don’t have to expend any effort or sacrifice making their own life objectively better.

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    Just think, if we’d gone full Starship Troopers with our fascism, we’d have mixed sex toilets and not have to worry if Debbie still had a todger or not.

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      Seriously. Like imagine if a trans person used their preferred bathroom. I mean I don’t, cause I don’t care. But for people the right claims to hate, they have an odd fascination with them. Like how hard is it to just not give a fuck?

      My energy is more valuable to me than being mad at a group of people who I have minimal interactions with. Wouldn’t these pricks be happier just ODing on meth?

      I’ll give you this as an example, I drive Uber and have a mas presenting trans person. I call them by their preferred name and drive them where they wanna go. That’s it, and it’s never a problem. They told me about another driver that keeps making up mas names to call them in an attempt to antagonize them(?) I guess. I seriously can’t imagine giving that much of a fuck about someone I don’t even know.

      But here I am giving that same energy to dipshit “conservatives”. I guess we’re all hypocrites.

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        Ehh being annoyed at someone else for being an asshole isn’t equivalent to being annoyed that someone else exists. You don’t seem hypocritical to me

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        What does “mas” mean? I thought it was a typo for male, but you said it twice, so I’m not sure it’s a typo anymore, lol

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            I haven’t really checked since I’ve never needed to, but I imagine there’s a way to report that they’ve harassed you, which presumably would be worse for them.

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              I haven’t really ever had any problems cause I’m a normal human who doesn’t instantly hate things I don’t understand/identify with. But I know when ranking riders you do have options such as ; no seatbelt, disrespectful, inappropriate conversation, and maybe smoking/vaping (?). I hope there is a harassment option, cause honestly, how hard is it to just call someone what they wanna be called‽ It literally takes less energy and causes less drama in your life. The worst part is I look like the homo erotic image they have about what masculinity is. I’m town standard deviations to the right of the bell curve in terms of largeness and I’m in fairly good shape. So they talk to me like I’m one of them regardless of I got super ally rainbow shoelaces on. Like are you that unobservant‽

              Sorry I’m rambling. I just really don’t like it when they confuse me for one of their rank and file, and since I moved to the corner of bum fucked and nowhere, it’s been happening a lot lately.

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        The persecution of people is the point, not a means to an end. They just want to hurt people, it’ their kink. They are fucked in the head. Like psychopathic, sociopathic, sadists etc…

        They make up whatever arguments that justify them hurting people.

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        Like how hard is it to just not give a fuck?

        When you’re not very intelligent and you don’t have a lot going on in your life, it’s actually really hard to not give a fuck about stupid shit. What else are conservatives going to do? Further their education?

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      Well, they’re the party currently going to the ends of the Earth to protect pedophiles, so…pretty on brand.

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      With all th the shit, no pun intended, going on in the world, you would think they would have bigger fish to fry than who pisses where.

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    Having been in the military, I am acutely aware of just how soul crushing this is going to be for servicemembers.

    I would rank it below suicide watch duty but above unit mandatory fun day duty

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    The Daily Show has a nice piece on this anti-trans bullshit in the 'murican military.

    I’m getting sick and tired of all this and i’m in the group that it’s cool to dogpile on du jour, just make all bathrooms mixed already: sinks up front, cubicles in the middle with floor to ceiling doors, urinals at the back. There, done.
    As a bonus a lot more people will wash their hands.
    Motels might lose some money though.

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      But if we do something logical like this conservatives will only be left with 1,325,975 completely pointless things to whine and cry and stir up their base about.

      Unacceptable.

      Conservatives crying instead of finding reasonable solutions is an American institution. We must preserve it.

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    Nothing says protecting people in the bathroom like constantly monitoring them and keeping track of everyone that uses them.