In fairness, some of those people were told they'd be fine not getting it under some of the standard exceptions to vaccines. A few over medical concerns, etc... then that just ended up getting steamrolled. Not to say a bunch weren't just displaying lawful orders, but some weren't.
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A bunch of losers went out and threw Nazi salutes in Alberta, Canada yesterday while holding racist signs.
Eight years ago 500,000 marched in DC against Trump. He has returned and so has the protest - just on a smaller scale
Lol, are you high? Republicans are the ones replicating blood lible but directed against immigrants. They are really he ones calling for and end to transgender ideology (Magnus Hearschfeld institute, look it up) like yeah Dems are little bitches for two stepping when Israel demands, but to say they are following Hitler is stupid when the Repubs are doing it step for step, and the Dems at least sometimes say no.
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The difficulty with 3 is that to some extent you have to maintain constant production of weapons and munitions. Failing to do so means in the event of conflict there will be a serious lag between the need for more weapons and munitions and their availability. Retooling and re-training producers takes time.
Balancing that is walking a knifes edge no matter how you slice it. Ideally weapons would never be needed, but when they are it's uncertain how many will be needed, what type, etc...
Regardless of underlying economic system the production lines need to be ready to go but not take up to many resources. It's to an extent inevitable to overproduce during peaceful times.
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The only rationale I've seen consistently is that it's expensive to care for trans people.
I was in and diagnosed with gender dysphoria within about a week of Trump's initial tweet saying he was banning trans people. For about 2 months there it was a bit up in the air whether or not I'd get discharged or not. Ultimately was grandfathered in.
It's not an issue of hormones being available in the field, you can be deployed with a years supply no problem. That said the way the policy worked is you can't start HRT while deployed. (Presumably because of the increased burden of regular blood draws earlier on) If you were seeking to transition you needed the approval of your commanding officer, and that could be denied only if you were deployable and hadn't deployed yet.
There was also the option in there for your CO to basically grant you a year to go to college or something while transitioning to generally make integration smoother, so you wouldn't be stuck dealing with second puberty and regular military service at the same time. Though I have no idea if anyone actually got that. I know at least on person who didn't, or didn't take it anyway.
There's a bunch more nuance, rules, and tricky ways people got fucked over by their commands myself included. But at the end of the day, it really caused basically no problems overall while it was an option. And frankly if you can drag a CPAP machine on deployment trans people are less of a logistical nightmare and shouldn't make the top 10 of medical issues that actually might warrant discharge.