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That fucking weird american obsession with bathrooms. You guys are weird, get some therapy.
TBF, it's the conservative Americans that are the problem here. Not all Americans are weird like that.
You guys always say stuff like that; "It's just a minority, we're not all crazy racist pieces of shit", but then most of the americans didn't give a shit as the us slid into some sort of crazy and racist dictatorship, so I don't know. Some of you might be good people 🤷
I think it's kinda weird to assume there are any intrinsic traits about large, diverse groups of people. There are so many Americans of so many diverse backgrounds, that I think any generalizations we can make are gonna be wildly off for a great many people. It's certainly true that most Americans did not act to prevent the current administration. However, most Americans are completely uninformed, propagandized to daily, and held down systemically so they don't focus on their oppressors. Blaming the people is easy. They should've prevented this. They shouldn't have been complacent. It's their fault for the radical individualism.
I see this happen constantly, whether it's American, Chinese, Russian, Ukrainian, Israeli, Palestinian, British, etc... people, being blamed for the evils, perceived or otherwise, of their government. Often, these people are only as complicit as an abuse victim is to the person that has controlled their life and worldview to suit their own needs. Their actions and beliefs may be malicious, they may be indifferent, or they may simply be ineffective, but they receive the blame that would be more accurately aimed at those controlling their sources of information and communities.
Blaming the system takes more effort. There has been a slow, insidious, and very intentional subversion of American and global politics for decades, and it's handwaved away as conservative buffoonery and incompetence, which while present, is a very incomplete part of a larger picture. This isn't an election that people didn't turn out for. This is decades of the subversion of a democracy, the media, and a gradual pressure placed against the entire working class to keep the focus on putting food on the table, and a new culture war punching bag for each election season. I don't blame Americans. I blame the fascists that have snuck into government on populist platforms, and the people that should have been in positions to act as the safeguards who instead rolled over and gave in to the corruption.
No one is immune to propaganda. I can only hope that we rebuild better.
Its a "we'll see" at this point. Thats our own damn fault.
Or <40% of us anyway. The rest don't care.
What a bunch of creepy weird people. Always have their noses in business that does not concern them.
Do they earn a deployment ribbon for being on active doodie?
Can't wait to hear someone being referred to as veteran after being Lavatory Supervising n Officer for the entirety of their "deployment"
Years from now at the VFW:
"I was there at Chili Night back in '25. Not a square of Uncle Sam's one ply to be found. I was down to my last roll myself. Then Johnny from the 7th Battalion comes through the latrine doors, packs of Charmin' under both arms that he's taken off an ICE detainee. After my recon to make sure all the platoon was carrying a pair of grenades in their BDUs instead of a foxhole, we handed it out and the men were ready to unleash the fury only US military mess halls can provide. Hoorah!"
Imagine the mental gymnastics required to decide continuous monitoring of yourself in intimate spaces is more private than the chance a trans person could use a stall in the same bathroom.
This is what shows all their stated justifications are BS. They simply fear and hate trans people and will do whatever it takes to make their lives more difficult. Weird bathroom rules are just a good opportunity to make trans people suffer. All the nonsense about fairness and privacy is just after-the-fact justification.
I know Hesgeth is big on "reviving the warrior ethos", so apparently warriors need their intimate spaces monitored in order to accomplish that.
We trust them to fight and die on our behalf, but not to pee without pre-approval from the SecDef.
Money saving measure?
Every stall is a unisex stall.
Problem solved.
The bathrooms at SEA airport are unisex. They're great! The toilet stalls are large and totally private. There's a special urinal area too. I honestly don't know why more places, especially big public places, aren't unisex.
Glad they're watching the real danger & not domestic terrorism, election rigging or dismantling of the constitution
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So they drew dicks on the doors?
New special duty for low ranking enlisted just dropped.
Why? Just let it go. Why are we wasting resources on this?
Hatred.
My mind goes back to watching Maher interview Megyn Kelly and she was said that trans was her #1 issue. I am still just bowled over by someone of relative prominence saying such a crazy thing, but she is obviously not alone in that.
I find it just....baffling. It's such a small group, WTAF. All the bathroom bills and the hand-wringing over "men in women's sports", JFC.
You'd think trans people made up like 25% of our society rather than like 0.5%.
Imagine joining the military and being assigned genital checker/fart sniffer...