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More than 800 service members ejected from US military under ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ receive honorable discharges | CNN Politics (edition.cnn.com)

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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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

this headline was 100% readable for someone old enough to have lived through this nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

A: "Dont ask dont tell" is a completely made up bullshit phrase specific to the US

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Reading the entire story and not just the headline helps.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

You must be new here!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 21 hours ago

Haha! You’d think I’d know by now.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours 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?