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[-] quackers@lemmy.blahaj.zone 44 points 1 year ago

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 1 year ago

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 1 year ago

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

[-] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 1 year ago

That's a really shitty acronym on their part.

[-] Im14abeer@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago

It must lose something in translation.

[-] mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] railsdev@programming.dev 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago

Now I'm motivated to work out...

[-] eran_morad@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Propaganda aimed at the russian people and far-right dumbfucks throughout Europe and the USA.

[-] awwwyissss@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

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

this post was submitted on 09 Sep 2023
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