Well, this is a weird twist in the “trans military ban” story – Trump never actually discussed anything with the Department of Defense or issued any kind of formal order. He just impulse-tweeted that trans people were banned. So for the moment, there’s no actual policy change and trans people are still allowed, with trans healthcare still covered by military plans.
I don’t know if this situation will last for long, but it’s a reminder of just how incompetent and unprofessional our would-be dictator is.He declared a major and extremely unpopular military policy change on Twitter, with no planning or consultation with the DoD at all, lied about discussing it with generals, and then he never actually put in the order.
I’m just going to batch-respond to some of the responses on here:
1. “The military is an evil colonialist institution anyway! Trans people should be glad to not be part of it!” – Wow, congratulations on winning the Leftist Purity Olympics, at the low low cost of endorsing segregation.
2. “Okay, this was poorly implemented, but we need to put away political correctness and ask what the effects of allowing trans people in the military will be?” – Probably not much, since we’ve already been doing it. Trans people have been serving openly in the military for a year now, and with various degrees of secrecy for many decades. Neither the military medical system nor troop morale has collapsed as a result.
3. “As President, Trump can order anything he wants!” – Yes, he can order this. He also can order the military to rename itself Clownin’ Charlie’s Balloon Platoon and replace boot camp with juggling and pie-throwing instruction. Something doesn’t have to be illegal to be a terrible idea.
4. “Attack helicopter special Tumblerina snowflake did you just assume my gender!?!?!” – whoaa, 3edgy5me
5. “This is just a distraction!” – Yes, except that it’s also a real thing the President did, and that DoD unfortunately will probably have to follow up on. Someone setting your house on fire may be doing it to distract you while they steal your car, but even so, your house is on fire.
Something easy I made last night, which turned out really delicious. In this case, to go with some baked trout and lemon-garlic green beans. Just getting a little more of the leftovers now 😉
The vote might happen within the next hour. We’re at the Capitol protesting. If more people show up, it’s less likely to pass. If you’re around and can, consider coming to the Capitol NOW.
Signal boost!
(OP was showing as an hour old at 10:58pm Eastern Time, July 27.)
Fun fact: the anti-Semitic stereotypes about Jews having lots of money/being greedy/cheap began in the Middle Ages thanks to Christian laws.
The Christian church began forbidding Christians from having professions that involved lending money, banking, or pawn work. It was because the church believed that money was ultimately unclean so although it was considered a necessity, Christians were instructed to deal with it as little as possible.
But someone still needed to run all of those money-based businesses. So these societies which were already run by Christian leadership basically made it a rule that these businesses had to be run by Jews since they were already “unclean”. Furthermore, due to other restrictions on Jewish people in these areas, these money-based positions were pretty much some of the only jobs Jews could legally hold.
This eventually led to numerous stereotypes involving Jews and money. And the acidity of these stereotypes grew when Christian people and leaders became resentful of the livelihood Jews were able to achieve for themselves with these jobs.
So to sum up: Christian society forces Jews to hold down money-centered jobs since, according to the church, Jews were already going to Hell. Then, once they made lives with these roles they were forced into, Jews were mocked and hated for being successful.
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