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Richard Nixon tried to nuke North Korea because he was drunker than a skunk and Kissinger had to tell the joint chiefs of staff to ignore him.

https://www.businessinsider.com/drunk-richard-nixon-nuke-north-korea-2017-1

It’s not trans people we need to worry about. It’s putting mentally weak and fragile men in charge of things.

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Not nuking North Korea was probably the right choice. On the other hand, I’d rather get vaporized in a nuclear fireball than starve to death in a reeducation camp for not clapping hard enough when [Great/Supreme/Dear] Leader farts.

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39 points

I’d rather get nuked than show up to work Monday, but that’s not really my call.

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1 point

Vote for more transgender politicians and you might see your dreams a reality.

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13 points

You’ve now been banned from lemmy.seeyou.pyongyang

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“There are 150 ICBM missiles that are being controlled by that Air Force base and by these individuals.”

“I do not want someone who doesn’t know if they are a man or a woman with their hand on a missile button.”

His “argument” is that trans people are inherently unstable because they are trans (really, questioning, but that distinction doesn’t matter to him).

This is what queer people are dealing with: the constant pathologizing of our very existence to the point where we’re viewed as a threat. This is why I can never accept people who continue to vote for these dangerous assholes: they either benefit from or are indifferent to the suffering this rhetoric engenders. It’s not a difference in opinion and deserves no such protection.

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Well as we know, all cishet people know exactly who they are at any given time, and their personality, philosophy, epistemology, and tastes never cha—oh wait…

Must suck for him being so boring and predictable all the time, that he has to invent reasons to get all hot and bothered.

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If we had to wait for only the eternally ethically pure, completely content and self-actualized people to be the ones to man the silos, we’d be waiting a longass time, because those people don’t join the military.

But we all know it’s just shitting on a minority in order to drum up a new scapegoat after gays finally became boring.

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It sounds very much like how women were ‘dismissed’ from essential roles in society because they were ‘fragile’, ‘overly emotional’, ‘suffer from hysteria’.

This all sounds like a repeat, we’ve been here before.

Only difference is that with lgbtiqa+ the very existence is denied to them.

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Does that mean it’s now the LGBTQICBM community?

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i sexually identify as nuclear armageddon. my pronouns are Minuteman III/Trident II

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Cis people have launched more missiles at people in general. Better ban any sort of similar treatments for cis military members too.

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I think the reason is not that cis people are bad. It’s just there are more cis people

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I’ve yet to meet a cis person that didn’t want to use ICBMs to initiate nuclear armageddon, so…agree to disagree.

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9 points

My track record in strategy games reinforces your statement. I can’t be trusted.

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56 points

I remember when they said letting women in the military would do exactly the same thing. They don’t even make new arguements anymore.

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It’s been the same argument for 150 years, they just keep repositioning their sights.

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