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[–] quackers@lemmy.blahaj.zone 44 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Wtf am i reading. Making them gay isnt even a stab at anyone, its just a weird thing to add.

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 58 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You're not the target audience. They're trying to stir up the homophobes, for whom "gay" is very much a stab.

[–] lemmylommy@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Exactly. For them „gay“ is short for „evil, satanic pedophile“.

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's a really shitty acronym on their part.

[–] Im14abeer@midwest.social 6 points 2 years ago

It must lose something in translation.

[–] mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

That's ESP... wow, the gay soldiers are even more super than I thought.

[–] railsdev@programming.dev 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

If the US is making “super soldiers” by forcing them to be gay, wouldn’t that make being gay a positive? I don’t understand how even the target audience could take this seriously. You’re basically saying you have to be gay to be a strong super soldier.

[–] Drivebyhaiku@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Yeah it's really not on brand with their usual message about how gay men are going to cause the fall of western civilization by being all feminine and weak something something cultural marxism...

I think the toxic masculinity has started feeding on itself like a snake eating it's own tail.

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Other posters have already mentioned it, but the idea of using homosexuality as means to produce super-soldiers is tried-and-true, and goes way, way back:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Band_of_Thebes

So, even taking Putin's ridiculous claim at face value, it still just boils down to Russia's soldiers being inadequate compared to Ukraine's.

[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Now I'm motivated to work out...

[–] awwwyissss@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

Putin needs to create an enemy to tell the Russian people he's protecting them from.