• Kurious84@eviltoast.org
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    This doesn’t appear to be about policy—it looks like pure prejudice. One key point: Trump has shown repeated interest in reshaping the military with only loyalists. Banning trans people fits that pattern, not because of readiness or cost, but because they’re less likely to pledge blind loyalty to him personally. It’s part of a broader authoritarian playbook—gradual control, step by step, aiming for a Putin-style grip. He believes controlling the military could help him hold onto power.

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      He believes controlling the military could help him hold onto power.

      Unfortunately he’s not wrong.

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      Putin, like many dictatorship purposely weakens thier military so they can enact uprising against them.

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    Waste of 1000 troops

    That’s money we’re not getting back

    It’s expensive to train troops

    America lost 1,000 troops today, self-inflicted loss

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      They’re doing it to trans people and autistic people. This is dangerous stuff. It’s time to fight the Nazis again.

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    Oh shit, yo trans peeps getting chopped from the military - assemble into a modernized and trans version of the Sacred Band of Thebes?! We could use a well regulated militia to mop up some Agent Orange right about now…

    Edit: THE SACRED BAND OF T’s!!

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      after trans and it will be every other lgbtq+, and many of them are in the closet still.

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    Any transgender person not grateful to be discharged from the military of a fascist government is deeply confused.

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    Good thing the U.S. Military is running like a well oiled machine.

    Off topic: Are we done soaking the 2/F18s? They be will be shining like new.