do you really think ANYONE would/could transition just for supposed gains in sports, let alone EVERYONE?

No, that was pure sarcasm.

Even at the most practical level, there are easier and more effective ways to cheat at sports. But the hysteria around this thing that has never actually happened happening consistently means we need to pretend its a problem to soothe the nerves of people who are well past the point of competing in anything.

But the Cass Report shit was sincere. The amount of lying that went into structuring an argument for denying young people any form of bodily autonomy is staggering. Its going to go down in history like phrenology did. But we’re going to be forced to treat it as seriously as the Hutus and the Tutsies were forced to treat a guy with calipers, because this pseudoscience is being enshrined into British national law.

What experts do you think are lying about trans people?

British pediatrician Hilary Cass, just for starters

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the pros and cons of Trans athletes

Pro: Kids have fun playing together.

Con: Literally every single professional athlete will become trans so they can win at sports.

If you don’t know anything about it you should shut the fuck up and listen to those that do.

I remember folks from Phillip Morse saying this about smoking, then bringing out a congo-line of quacks to prove it. Then we repeated this with the Exxon shills denying climate change for thirty years.

Maybe I’m getting tired of being lied to by professionals.

The first U.S. troops to deploy after the Sept. 11 attacks are suffering from radiation exposure that the government has yet to officially recognize 23 years later.

Damn. Its Gulf War Syndrome and Agent Orange all over again. I was so close to joining the military right after 9/11. Happened a week after my 19th birthday, and I thought “Fuck I guess this must be a sign or something”. Whole family had a parade of “Don’t join the military that’s fucking stupid they treat people like shit and you’d be throwing your life away” condemnations for even suggesting the idea. Probably saved my fucking life.

Friends don’t let friends enlist.

Vampires will even admit they suck.

bureaucrats tend not to be on the front lines, where most POW are captured

What do you think happens after the front-line collapses?

Prisoners of war were in large majority soldiers, and not bureaucrats.

They were military personal. And the military is flush with bureaucrats.

But the average soldier that became a POW has little to do with the high ranking bureaucrats who escaped through the rat lines.

Nuremberg Defense ass response.

The vast majority of POW captures were in the final year of the war, when it was teenagers and middle aged people who were quickly trained and sent to the front lines, in many places.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratlines_(World_War_II)

High-ranking fascists and Nazis who escaped from Europe via the ratlines after World War II: Ante Pavelić, Adolf Eichmann and Josef Mengele

:-/

More the opposite. The teenagers and war-wounded were forced to fight until the bitter end, buying time for the senior officers to surrender or flee. The POWs that were captured were bureaucrats and administrators, central to the functioning of the German industrial war machine but never responsible for pulling a trigger on the front lines. The surrendered or went underground en mass only after their children and grandchildren had been fed as cannon fodder into the maw of the encroaching American and Russian armies.

Germans “recruited” from countries they conquered en masse.

Rota introduced Hunka as a man “who fought [for] the Ukrainian independence against the Russians, and continues to support the troops today.”

Can we take a moment to throw up thoughts and prayers for this brave Victim of Communism in his crusade to eradicate the Soviet menace from his native soil?

Thinking “500 thousand people, all nazis” is plain wrong. Thinking “all of those that died in gulags past WW2 are nazis” is plain wrong.

Its so crazy to phrase it this way, because Soviet prisoners of war (POWs) held by Nazi Germany and primarily in the custody of the German Army were starved and subjected to deadly conditions. Of nearly six million who were captured, around three million died during their imprisonment. . The ratio of dead Soviet POWs to German POWs was 6:1. What makes the Germans so uniquely sympathetic?

It should be noted that many of these German POWs were taken from concentration camps full of Soviet POWs in turn. One might think that perhaps, what goes around will come around. But instead, we’re expected to pretend the Waffen-SS and their auxiliaries were these sweet innocent lambs caught in the teeth of a horrible war.

Even setting aside the knee-jerk “Maybe the Nazis were the bad guys” western response, you’ve got kinda squeeze your eyes shut from 1941 to 1945 and pretend the next couple of years was just Soviets being innately cruel for no discernible reason, rather than on a rip-roaring rampage of (kinda justified) revenge.

I heard that’s not a problem anymore, because of the brave men and women of the checks notes Hell’s Angels.

lemmy.ml

Damn. Tankies really out for blood all of a sudden. Is JD Vance about to become the next Victim of Communism?

the Chinese government is trying to weave a false narrative that all of that has been instigated by mysterious western powers

The idea that the John Birch Society single handedly perpetuated the Tienanmen Protests is pretty classic “evil foreigners did this” bullshit propaganda. But I see folks on Lemmy (and even more zealous folks on Reddit) doggedly assert that you can be arrested for saying the words “Tienanmen Square” in public.

Incidentally, you can link information to the contrary on Reddit, and that’s also grounds for account suspension, given a critical mass of users slamming the “Report” button.

Every social media site has its orthodoxy and its taboos. Saying anything outside this orthodoxy opens you up to the full toolbox of censorship, depending on the zealousness of the moderators and administrators.

“Nobody in China is allowed to know what happened in Tienanmen Square. You’re not allowed to talk about it. Everything is censored. Nobody in China knows what happened.”

Pure propaganda. This shit is in Chinese elementary school textbooks. Its about as poorly disseminated and heavily censored as the Kent State Massacre or the Waco Siege or the OWS protests in the United States.

So much of the drift has just been marketing. Rebranding a Markov Chain stapled onto a particularly large graph as Master Computer from Tron.

I’m not saying no one ever gets their posts removed or banned from communities or whatever

That crazy, because that’s exactly what I’m saying. And yet we’re stuck here with you calling me a liar.

This has the same vibe as the hundreds of posts that appear on there every single year around the Tiananmen Square massacre anniversary saying stuff like “Reddit is owned by Tencent!!!1! and they’re banning everyone who mentions Tiananmen Square!!!11!!!”

Yes, the anti-China trolls love to insist they’re speaking truth to power rather than just echoing a bit of recycled propaganda from the 1990s.

No, that doesn’t change the fact that Rule #1 gets invoked on guillotine posts regularly.

The guillotine joke is probably one of the most common reaction posts to any corporate news on Reddit.

Who subs have gotten shut down because Reddit administrators accused the local mods of failing to curtail it.

Pretending anyone at Reddit HQ cares about this kind of thing is peak Redditor behaviour.

The application of the ban rules tend to be arbitrary and highly political. But guillotine jokes absolutely get accounts banned. And moderators who fail to consistently ban certain accounts were targeted for removal very aggressively over the last four years.

The 20th century fascists were all meth’d out of their fucking gourds.

It’s crazy how the 1980s mafia bust-out strategy for squeezing a business dry used to be the thing a district attorney would level RICO charges against.

Now its the preferred strategy of hedge funds run by the children of those district attorneys.