I thought Idiocracy was supposed to be a movie
I fucking hate this comparison.
The government in Idiocracy actually tried. They were just idiots. The bad guy in that movie is stupidity.
When these comparisons started that wasn’t even a fair comparison. And I mean like, it was common enough when W. was still in office, among the like 10 people who had seen it by that time.
We have actively malicious state actors who love that you’re so willing to believe they’re only stupid.
Also Mike Judge is terrified of poor people.
It’s an apt reference when talking about the population rather than the government. But you’re right. Camacho was an infinitely better president that actively listened to the smartest person in the world. He was surrounded by idiots too, but he tried.
The government of idiocracy is decades after the stage we’re in now, but we seem to be in the prologue part of that movie, if not further in.
ForcingHeavily recommending gender affirming care.Once again being so anti-trans they end up harming more cis people than trans people.
In other words, Pete Hegseth introduces mandatory gender-affirming tests as part of servicemember health evaluations.
How the fuck is this not The Onion
You could say that about 4-7 headlines per day
Yeah, but this one really surprised me. It was very clearly satire until I actually checked the source, and I’m usually expecting absurdity.
Unfortunately to me this felt like a natural evolution of where they’ve been going
He seems to be obsessed with the purity of bodily fluids, just like Jack D. Ripper. Even looks a little like him.
Prioritizing testosterone makes a lot of sense when you’re an anthropomorphic scrotum.
In fairness, TBIs can cause long term testosterone deficiency. This isn’t the worst idea for combat veterans… assuming that the reason is to get them proper medical care
Narrator: that was not the reason.
In thst case the best call would be screening for symptoms and possibly including sex hormones in any regular blood tests. The symptoms are necessary for the diagnosis because plenty of people are fine at below average levels
What a fucking weirdo.
Whaaaaaaaat? The fuck is going on with toxic masculinity? The dudes are not ok
They feel weak and vulnerable and are reaching to testosterone for the solution instead of emotional maturity
Never have been
Crazy to me that they don’t want the military mandating that they have to take the flu shot, but these weird macho dudes are just fine getting their hormone levels checked and submitting them to the army. I am at such a loss with society
It’s all based in insecurity, it’s gay to prevent illness because your already too manly and strong to get sick, but showing off how T’ed up you are is a privilege
Edit: autocorrect is stupid
Low-T isn’t even a real problem worth testing for like this. I’m not against testing for it when medically helpful, but the very public nature of this announcement sounds more like an attempt at signalling pro-masculine virtue rather than to tackle a real problem.
This nonsense is antithetical to a healthy military. Republicans always make the very self-destructive choice of using the military as a testing ground for their weird ideas, in a way that disincentivises employment with it.
When they wanted to purge trans people, they started with the military, because it was the biggest thing they had any control over. Lots of talented people left for the private sector with damage to morale as well. Now they’re projecting their male fragility delusions onto the military in hopes that they can become more masculine and therefore “strong”.
None of this does anything to make the military better at what it does. It’s like Hegseth looked at UFC fighters (some of the most useless dumbasses in existence) and decided they were even stronger than our troops. It’s like the military has low confidence in its sexuality, and is overcompensating. It’s a bizarre look.
My question is, do generals found to have low T need to start taking supplements? Are they going to receive gender-affirming care?!
Article says it will be optional, but I suspect it will be “optional”
That’s exactly it. Optional in the military means you’re doing it or you’re going to have a promotion deficiency and your career will suffer for it.
This guy beats women and more than likely rapes children
Gender affirming care.
This is an aspect of totalitarianism. When a government attempts to subordinate all of society to a single ideology and state control. This is an attempt to elevate the idea of the strong, virile, white male as one of the solutions to all of our problems. It supports the approach in Iran where all we have to do is bomb them back to the stone age in order to “win”. Another example is when Hegseth made all the generals come to Washington, in person, to dress them down, or to rename the Department of Defense to the Department of War, or to stop the promotion of women to higher ranks. Not only does it tie in nicely with the incompetence of the administration, because, what is the need for thinking through things or considering the consequences of actions when all you need is might, but it also serves as a distraction to the dangers happening behind the scenes like Russell Vought dismantling the federal government or the unimpeded creation of the surveillance state or the rise of unelected oligarchs who have far too much influence on society. And don’t even get me started about the complete inability of the democrats to meet this moment.
As this trickles down into American culture at large, the US is going to become a violent society. Casual violence, fights and road rage shootings, will be common. And the entire mentality will be dog-eat-dog, if you help someone you’re pussified.
Become? Will be?
That’s literally what the US is right now, dude.
Heh, We already live like this. Thanks to the few the majority have to suffer through this without any hope that the powers that be will do anything useful to curb this behavior.
This morning I took my usual route to work. Its not the most popular route taking five to ten minutes longer from day to day than the main route. Its a two lane road with three spots where the lane expands to two lanes. For the most part its stress free which is worth more to me than five or ten minutes a day of my time.
Today however I was honked at and flipped off for four miles because the type A(Asshole) was mad because when the extra lane ended he didn’t race to me in time to go around me. In this fools mind I had done him wrong by not pulling over to let him by. Four miles later the road expands in to a large two lane with a turn lane going both ways.
I blew him a kiss as he flipped me off when he went around.
That is some seriously tiny dick energy.
Loyalty, instead of competence. Testosterone instead of wisdom.
