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[–] distantsounds@lemmy.world 217 points 4 days ago (3 children)
[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 51 points 4 days ago (9 children)

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.

[–] BremboTheFourth@piefed.ca 37 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

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

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 13 points 4 days ago

Thanks homie, that actually means a lot to me.

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[–] TommySoda@lemmy.world 116 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 27 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] flandish@lemmy.world 35 points 4 days ago (4 children)

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.

[–] callouscomic@lemmy.zip 16 points 4 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

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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[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] flandish@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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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[–] restingboredface@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 days ago (3 children)

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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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 10 points 4 days ago (10 children)

Because abusing your fellow Americans sounds like fun?

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[–] stopforgettingit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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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[–] bcgm3@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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?

[–] TorJansen@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago

Sargeant of Short Arms

[–] Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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.

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 22 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 84 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Pecker inspector going to be a duty station now eh?

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 34 points 4 days ago (2 children)
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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 24 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

HOW DOES THIS LOWER THE COST OF LIVING?

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.

[–] carlossurf@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 days ago

Cool now you have guys watching woman restrooms, great job idiots

[–] gndagreborn@lemmy.world 37 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I can't wait to get drafted then have my genitalia checked constantly by my CO.

[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 11 points 4 days ago (3 children)

It's a normal part of the military anyway... willy watching duty during drug tests is a thing. Gotta make sure the Joe isn't cheating the drug test.

I don't know what the other bathroom did... never asked or cared. But I will assume the stall door stayed open.

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 54 points 4 days ago (8 children)

Americans are so weird.

They're also so dumb that they can't see that this entire bathroom thing is just one giant distraction

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 31 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (11 children)

No shit. The solution is easy too. Make every bathroom non-gendered with ceiling to floor walls and doors on the stalls and cameras in the washing up area. Add a guard or attendant if you feel like you have to.

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[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago

We're not all like that. Shit like this blows my mind.

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[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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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[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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

[–] normalexit@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Lindsay Graham enters the chat.

[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 2 points 2 days ago

Hey there lady Gray

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 23 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Present your bits for inspection.

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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

[–] griff 27 points 4 days ago (2 children)

defending US citizens, residents & guests from WHAT???

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[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

Is that a rank or title? Just wondering if I can make it to Major Private Inspector

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[–] Chozo@fedia.io 30 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If they can't handle the person shitting in the stall next to them possibly having a different set of genitals than theirs, then how the fuck are they supposed to handle combat? What a bunch of absolute cowards.

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[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

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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[–] verdantbanana@lemmy.world 28 points 4 days ago
[–] besselj@lemmy.ca 28 points 4 days ago (1 children)

We'll need a private-watching private to stand guard

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[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 11 points 4 days ago

What do you think? How many months until they will let an AI take pictures of your junk and evaluate a toilet for you?

[–] kikutwo@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

Gee I feel so much safer wtf

[–] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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[–] mang0@lemmy.zip 16 points 4 days ago

When satire becomes eerily close to reality

[–] TuffNutzes@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Your tax dollars at work. Just keep an eye out for that abuse and fraud!

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 8 points 4 days ago (4 children)

The other day, my mind was on other things and I walked into a public restroom, looked around, and didn't see a single urinal. Suddenly it hit me!

I hustled out, and sure enough, I'd walked into the Women's side. It was one of those big open rest rooms with no doors, just a big opening, and I wandered into the wrong one. IT HAPPENS! Luckily nobody else was in there at the time.

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[–] Agrajag@scribe.disroot.org 16 points 4 days ago

All toilets will be state mandated to have one of those awful "smile you're being filmed" stickers

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