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submitted 1 month ago by squirrel to c/lgbtq_plus

More than 800 records of service members who were kicked out of the military under the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy were recently upgraded to receive honorable discharges, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Tuesday.

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[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 1 month ago

This is such a cryptic headline for anyone unfamiliar. Even reading the article its not immediately clear without the context of the community this was posted to.

[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 25 points 1 month ago

this headline was 100% readable for someone old enough to have lived through this nonsense. seems trivial to lookup the policy if young ones are unfamiliar

[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

A: "Dont ask dont tell" is a completely made up bullshit phrase specific to the US that makes no sense outside of context

B: Without knowing about A its impossible to know whether them getting a "honorable discharge" is an improvement or not.

[-] QuincyPeck@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

Reading the entire story and not just the headline helps.

[-] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago
[-] QuincyPeck@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Haha! You’d think I’d know by now.

[-] Hawke@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Nah. I’m plenty old enough and it’s a shit headline, probably purposeful ragebait.

More than 800 service members ejected from US military under ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’

WTF how is that possible, is that still in effect in some way??

receive honorable discharges

… oh. Whew.

[-] XaiwahBlue 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It was literally answered right by Google's AI when i googled it if you're not aware the history of queer people in the world enough to know about a big issue that happened in a major global actor's military in 1993 until 2011.

I always felt like there isn't the shaming on the internet for the intellectual laziness like there used to be. It used to be the responsibility of the reader to take a moment and educate themselves, but now we proudly proclaim not only did we not do the bare minimum, but the OP was bad for not spoon feeding us?

There's already so little interaction with the posted content here and you can't even bother to try?

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