• culpritus [any]
    hexbear
    90
    9 months ago

    Don't Ask Don't Tell was a Clinton thing iirc.

    • SerLava [he/him]
      hexbear
      88
      edit-2
      9 months ago

      Total sidebar, but it's weird how people remember DADT. Like it was a sudden LGBT-phobic policy that came out of nowhere. What it actually was, was a typical pathetic Democrat half-measure, trying to "compromise" with Christian fascists. The policy it replaced was that commanders could decide to just broadly investigate soldiers and look for evidence of them being gay to purge them from the military. The Democrats' solution was "just pretend to be straight all the time lol, and we'll promise to be less proactive about purging you"

      • @Abraxiel
        hexbear
        41
        edit-2
        9 months ago

        It's bizarre to me that people could look at getting a bunch of young, fit men together, thrusting them into a situation where they mostly exist in a social bubble with each other, train to trust each other with their lives, and live in a culture of embracing excitement and violence, and then expect everyone to pretend some of them aren't fucking.

        • @100@lemm.ee
          hexbear
          23
          9 months ago

          Tbh 90% of the military is just office work on computers. I don't trust my coworkers with my life, I hardly trust them not to fuck up the excel spreadsheet formulas I've made. Still fucking them on occasion tho so you nailed that part.

        • emizeko [they/them]
          hexbear
          11
          9 months ago

          the traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy, and the lash

        • culpritus [any]
          hexbear
          14
          9 months ago

          The term they used was triangulation. It's a fancy name for the rightward ratchet of the Overton window via 'compromise'.

  • Awoo [she/her]
    hexbear
    84
    edit-2
    9 months ago

    Report the server to Discord Trust and Safety. The whole server will be banned.

    Use this form: https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=360000029212&tf_360011846391=us_family_center

    Make sure to select "I would like to report concerning or abusive behaviour to discord".

    This is worth doing. Discord Trust and Safety have been legitimately good in my experience. They do not hesitate to shut down servers that they're made aware of problems in. Discord does not behave the same as Reddit.

    • pooh [she/her, any]
      hexagon
      hexbear
      26
      9 months ago

      I wish I knew what server it was. I pulled this screenshot from a Twitter post.

      • Awoo [she/her]
        hexbear
        15
        9 months ago

        Dang. Oh well, the information will be something others pass on when they see this kind of shit.

      • Awoo [she/her]
        hexbear
        10
        9 months ago

        Sure, but they have always been proactive about not allowing hate-filled discords. It's extremely easy to get these places permabanned. Reddit on the other hand has always been the opposite, doing everything in their power to ignore this kind of thing until pushed into it by media.

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
    hexbear
    60
    9 months ago

    As always the "no drama" declaring rule-makers bring the drama themselves.

    Disgusting cowards.