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They're really gonna put The Onion out of work (thelemmy.club)
submitted 12 hours ago by to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world
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[–] 61 points 12 hours ago (9 children)

Is part of Hegseth's mental health problems that he can't grow a beard. It wouldn't be the first time in history (Alexander the Great famously count grow a beard and forced his troops to be clean-shaved).

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  • [–] [S] 34 points 11 hours ago (8 children)

    From my understanding, it's to keep black people from serving. They have to be clean shaven and unfortunately black people tend to get really bad razor bumps which isn't accepted.

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  • [+] -10 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

    it's to keep black people from serving

    Sounds fake

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  • [–] [S] 18 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

    https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/hegseth-military-shave-waiver-black-troops/

    Yeah, why would this white supremacist administration make racist policies?

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  • [+] -10 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

    This impacts at most 16300 troops, and there are 162000 black men in service. They're going to need a much better strategy to get the blacks out if it's racially motivated... Not to mention the 60000 black women unaffected by this

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  • [–] 13 points 7 hours ago (1 child)

    ~10%? That’s a pretty solid fraction, certainly not bad when you still need to maintain plausible deniability.

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  • [–] -2 points 6 hours ago*

    That figure includes whites and you're comparing it to black men only. Blacks in service represent 60% of the diagnosis so only 60% of that figure can be expected ot be black men.

    I.e. closer to 4%

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