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[–] culpritus@hexbear.net 90 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] SerLava@hexbear.net 88 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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"

[–] Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This was Clinton though. AFAIK, he didn’t even try to act like he wasn’t a Republican.

[–] SerLava@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

it was a convergence to be sure

[–] culpritus@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

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

[–] the_itsb@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

My deeply Republican dad hated him with a fiery passion that still boggles me, thirty years later.

[–] ComradeChairmanKGB@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't ask, don't tell (what happened on Epstein island)