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the headline makes it sound like they chose to do this but in reality it was because the courts made them because the original decision was unconstitutional. :)
Deep down I knew there was no chance it wasn’t forced. They’re actively ignoring other court orders so I guess even these evil fucks sometimes realize to pick their battles.
They’re fully aware most of their policies are going to get shot down in court, that’s why they’re carpet bombing the US with bullshit right now.
If we all breath a sigh of relief that some new policy to force toddlers to work in slaughterhouses got shot down, we’re likely missing the 30 odd, convoluted deregulation policies that slip right past the new cycle because they’re written in legalese and seem abstract to 99% of non-wealthy Americans.
I don’t know how many times I can scream that they’re robbing us blind while distracting us with stupid cultural nonsense.
Oh I know. Climate change is getting accelerated as fuck right now. And so many other things you cannot even know what to be most concerned about
Things could be so much better, but on a few occasions I have been pleased to see that even Trump can’t stop environmental progress. Coal will never be big again, and renewables are still the best way to fix rising utility prices; in large part because of what Democratic presidents have built over decades. Pro-environment groups are still doing their damnedest even in a hostile administration.
What you wrote here is encouraging. Though I was thinking specifically about trump opening national forests for logging which is just disgusting.
I don’t care how desperate someone is for a job, anybody who even approaches a national forest or park with a chainsaw…
Yeah, it’s insane. The belief is still around that if you care about the environment at all that makes you some kind of leftist political revolutionary/hippie. But to me it just means you have an iota of foresight.
Cutting down forests without looking strongly toward the consequences of that is just fucking stupid and pathetic. The US has practically zero old growth forests. Changing the makeup of the forest has fucked, and will fuck, with the ecosystem, which we are not apart from. It affects us eventually. In ways we cannot predict. It’s a moronic move and it will harm future generations of humans, if not the current ones.
Actually, if the economy crashes (like under the pandemic) that will slow climate change quicker than our proposed mitigation plans.
100% they’re literally diarrhoea-shitting policies up the wall and seeing which fecal stains the courts and the economy miss or don’t care about.
They chose to listen to the courts instead of the executive. That’s sadly pretty huge
I am so glad to see somebody upholding their oath to support and defend the constitution.
I wish the President would do the same, the slob
I’m still glad to see that the military, at least, is still respecting court orders.
Just because courts ordered it…
I have heard that a part of it may have been unit cohesion within the military. People go through hell together in training. If, at any point along that line, they were able to remark “Oh, you’re trans? Whatever, man. You’re the one who’s got my back when I’m getting the mounted MG into position.” then federal discrimination may have actually ruffled some real army feathers.
I’m pleasantly surprised it wasn’t just ignored. Not like anyone would have enforced it.
Some rare good news.
I’ve maintained that as a serving member, regarding your gender identity, I don’t care, the enemy doesn’t care and the incoming fire sure as shit don’t care.
The memo says the Defense Department is returning to the Biden-era medical policy for transgender service members due to a court order that struck down Hegseth’s restrictions as unconstitutional. The administration is appealing the move, but a federal appeals court in California denied the department’s effort to halt the policy while its challenge is pending.
So the court ordered them too.
The article is making it out like the DoD is “defying” Hegseth, but that seems like a misrepresentaion, as it seems he has to go along with this.
I guess it’s a “win” because the DoD isn’t openly defying an order…
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It’ll get overturned. Give it time. And then maybe that’ll get overturned again. We’ll see, but this isn’t decided.
The Defense Department is complying with a court order that found the restrictions on trans service members unconstitutional. Federal judges have blocked the ban in two separate lawsuits, and one appeals court has denied the department’s request to lift the block while legal challenges proceed.
So balance of powers does exist, if we maintain it.
I wouldn’t hold my breath on that. They initially said they were compiling with getting Garcia back only to but when courts said to show they were working towards it. Them the story changed.
I’ll be believe they are complying with the old policy in a month if no one says they aren’t able to get care.
As someone who’s competed against all manner of genders in roller derby, lemme tell you, trans people are tough as nails and you want them fighting for America. The USA men’s team for the RD World Cup even has a trans-man, and they beat out 50 biological men for that spot.
Some trans people are tough as nails. Some of us are dweebly little Hank Green knock offs. 🤓
Trans men are (or can be) biologically male. The best term to use for ‘non-trans’ men would be cisgender men. ‘Biological’ is the preferred term that bigots use to spread misinformation and insinuate that trans people aren’t real, natural, or equal.
Someone else said it pretty well:
Biological sex is a construct. It is based on the observable traits of:
- Primary sexual characteristics
- Secondary sexual characeristics
- Gonadal Sex
- Chromosomal Sex
A fully medically transitioned trans person usually matches a majority of these, so it is totally reasonable to say trans women are biologically female, and trans men are biologically male. Generally, the binary categorization of sex is scientifically unsound; it should be understood as a spectrum.
Respectfully, I’m not going to get into the linguistic gymnastics here. My meaning is clear.
That’s shitty. Just take the advice.
Thank you for your opinion. I hope you have a nice weekend.
I think the point that you seem to be missing is that your language is not respectful. Adding the word respectfully doesn’t change that. The other poster was offering constructive advice and the rationale. You’re just being wilfully ignorant at this point.
You know what’s wild? This is the first time I’ve ever heard of men doing roller derby. I mean, I’m not surprised that men do it, I’m just surprised that I’ve gone my whole life up to this point and never heard of/encountered/or met men that do roller derby. Are all-male teams common in the sport?
USARS and MRDA have mixed-gender rules. Each team can only field two men in a jam, and if they have a guy sitting in the box, that counts.
I don’t know many all-male leagues or teams (apart from Team USA), just because there aren’t that many men in the sport.
How many WWII films depict trans shows put on for the troops by the troops? Especially in the Navy. Is that all fiction?
My understanding is that this was definitely a thing. It’s been over a decade, but I recall reading a bit about it in a book called ‘Conduct Unbecoming’, a history of gay people in the military.
Note that I’ve just read a few books and am not an expert though. I just don’t care about the genitals of the badass putting on the uniform to protect me.
Why did this happen? Where did a random W come from? Everything is falling apart and no one is doing anything about it and we just get a W out of nowhere from nothing? How do we do it again
Court
That, and Hegseth seems to be spending all his time being paranoid about leaks when he’s the biggest leaker. Between that and day drinking, he doesn’t have much time in his schedule to actually advance fascism.
He’s concerned over leaks about his leaks. Literally.
just… “court”?? court seems to be going all left of sideways throughout the nation, I’m surprised this got somewhere
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no one is doing anything about it
A lot of people are doing a lot about it. Might be time to step away from the Internet if you really believe that. The reality is dark enough you don’t need to make it out to be even worse
I’m not talking about protests though. how do you expect me to hear about it if I step away from the internet? local newspaper? what an irritating comment. can you please say something actually helpful? i was asking a genuine question and i got this bitchy response from you, i really don’t appreciate that. if a lot of people are doing things, how about you tell me any single thing rather than just fucking insult me??? who’s making it worse here?
no one is doing anything about it
I’m not talking about protests though
If you don’t see how those statements contradict each other, were already done here
just fucking insult me
Calm down. You clearly aren’t doing well, it’s a genuine suggestion that I myself need to do more often. Which is also why I’m not engaging with you anymore that this
stop making assumptions about me
just fucking insult me
stop making assumptions about me
I’m confused. So we’re listening to court orders now?
Great news though
The military are practical. This is an issue that was behind them. They’d established their policies and programs. They were baked in. They had moved on. They don’t care for the politician of the hour jerking them around. People think the military are conservatives, but the army is neither a red state or a blue state. It is green.
There is going to be an open rift between the US military and government very soon, I’m calling it. Let’s hope it doesn’t come to a full-on civil war
A military coup is one of the best-case scenarios and requires a little more optimism than I have left.
I’m going to be optimistic for now that this is a sign that the military is concerned with honoring their oaths to uphold our Constitution by following due process etc, after 100 days of profoundly disturbing attempts by the Executive branch to dishonor the highest of laws in our land.
I’m sure they are worried about driving away talent as well.
I’ll be honest, even if that is the only real reason for them doing this, I would still consider this good news.
I highly doubt the Russian backed MAGAts want talented soldiers. They prefer “yes” people who will blindly follow orders and weaken the US military.
They ought to listen to The Onion and do everything in their power to protect those beautiful, mystical trans people.
(Id link the vid but I’m too lazy so I’ll do it later)
this is a sign that the military is concerned with honoring their oaths to uphold our Constitution
They want meat for the meat-wall. Let’s not get too optimistic.
No, really, the world’s largest volunteer fighting force, and we also have the distinction of the world’s biggest and most powerful military, so the brass had to do everything and anything to keep the ranks open wide for anyone who wants to go get themselves killed while burning brown kids in far away lands.
The slightly less cynical take is that we absolutely cannot diminish our enlisted forces any more. We have growing threats from Russia, an unstable president who may start a war with Iran for fun, instability between China, Taiwan and Philippines, just to name a couple of hotspots. If we get in a large-scale fight and don’t have every advantage we’re very likely to lose all status in the world.
The administration knows this. They are distracting you all with these culture-war bullshit fights knowing full well that most of them will either get shot down in court or overridden at some point. While we’re all focused on trying to stop the latest bill to force toddlers to work in kitten slaughterhouses, they’re passing 30 new policies that deregulate the financial sector and repeal laws that limit corporate power, which our illiterate population ignores because it’s boring.
Hate that the only way to trans Americans to have any right is only if they commit war crimes
Leave the shithole country
Why not encourage people to stay and fight?
Meh thats an option, it been a long slow decline and it seems to be in the final stages now. If there was no fight then there will hardly be now.
I mean to be fair, one of these planes is much less likely to contain nazis.
Those brown kids getting killed by Trans people must be so happy.
Nailed it.
Just look at Barrack “Black Drone Operator” Obama, and Joe “Sniff Sniff” Biden who is a blatant Zionist who acted chocked and insulted when he was called a Palestinian (I believe by Trump). Both supporting the violent occupation of Palestine, of course.
