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Vice President JD Vance’s Bluesky account was suspended within minutes of him joining the platform. His posts criticized medical treatments for transgender youth and claimed pharmaceutical influence over healthcare decisions.

https://www.timesnownews.com/world/us/us-news/jd-vance-suspended-from-bluesky-minutes-after-joining-what-was-his-first-post-article-152105999

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[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 77 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (7 children)

Do you think JD understands the irony that posting an exerpt from Justice Thomas that is against appealing to the authority of "experts", is, in itself, in fact appealing to the authority of an "expert", Justice Thomas, to support his stance? His stance of course being that medical treatment of minors with gender dysphoria in a way that does anything but reinforce the gender on their birth certificate is bad medicine/science. And both Vance and Justice Thomas also, being... I see here "not experts in anything remotely to do with medical science, gender dysphoria, adolescent development, or any field at all that would inform any semblance of a valid opinion on the matter of how to properly treat these kids medically" might, in fact, make their stance a little bit non-authoritative. Maybe both of them should stay in their lanes of bad faith partisan political theatre, bribery, and forcing the sprint we are all on towards fascism. That seems to be where their real skill sets are.

[–] zout@fedia.io 4 points 16 hours ago

Vance is somewhat of an expert on gender and sexuality though, being the cough fucker he is...

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[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 22 points 16 hours ago

"hello fellow humans, im trying to communicate with humanity"- JD vance.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 17 points 15 hours ago

Isn't Truth Social available for people like him?

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 95 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

BIG PHARMA MAKIN THE KIDS CUT THEY DICKS OFF

god republicans are stupid. So fucking stupid.

[–] Kushan@lemmy.world 17 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Remember, the likes of Vance aren't stupid, they know the shit they say isn't real but it riles their base up and creates enough anger that their base will ignore all the shit the republicans get up to.

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[–] vaionko@sopuli.xyz 9 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I always hated when I went to the school nurse for a bruised knee and got estrogen instead of having the bruise disinfected

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

My parents got really mad the day I came home as a girl. They were pissed! Made me go back to school the next day and get my penis re-installed.

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[–] Jackcooper@lemmy.world 13 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

The hormones used are basically all generics too

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[–] TommySoda@lemmy.world 172 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Pretty sure he did that on purpose so he can tell the public how awful and disgusting he thinks Bluesky is in the future.

[–] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 2 points 9 hours ago

Yeah, I think it's another step after the recent push of how "BlueSky is dying" because they actively reject assholes, that was going on last week.

[–] forrgott@lemmy.sdf.org 97 points 22 hours ago

Oh absolutely. He's a slimy little fuckstain.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 8 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

Nah. This seems a transparent attempt to gather political good will. The Nazis have whipped our ass with their social-media ground game. This is simply another tentacle.

[–] hr_@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago

Por que no los dos? There's no downside for him, either he can spread his hate there and win or he gets banned and screams and whines and wins

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 1 points 10 hours ago

They used to avoid the Mainstream Media, preferring their own bought and paid for Conservative Propaganda Machine, but that changed during HiterPig's first term.

Suddenly, news outlets were excited to have MAGA Nazis come on their shows to spew lies and propaganda, with no challenge. They allowed the Traitors to use their airwaves to abuse the relationship that news orgs had built with their viewers. Viewers, trusting that relationship, often believed the lies, and gave MAGA undeserved credibility.

If they were going to let those jackals in their airwaves, the news media had the responsibility to use that opportunity to challenge the lies, and expose the MAGA Nazis for the traitors they are, but the media did nothing.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 7 points 19 hours ago

This isn't how you start for good will.

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 62 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 31 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I wonder if he was mass reported and temporarily automod banned

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 24 points 21 hours ago

i assume that or they banned him before they confirmed it was him

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 34 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

This looks like some good sealioning. He probably didn’t write it himself. I think he was playing to his fans and trying to discredit Bluesky and its community guidelines. I wonder if Musk paid him, or if he did this on his own.

[–] utopiah@lemmy.world 12 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

sealioning

Damn, didn't even touch my coffee and already learning something today https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning

[–] FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago (2 children)
[–] knightmare1147@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Did... Did the word get invented because of a meme that has nothing to do with sea lions? Language is amazing.

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[–] KingGordon@lemmy.world 34 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

The account is back. I reported it for misinformation and lying.

[–] turtlesareneat@discuss.online 26 points 20 hours ago

Remember when Twitter - even before leon bought it - decided Trump was too important to ban, even tho he was violating the shit out of their TOS...

Does the PBC that owns BlueSky have an official stance on whether political officials can be "too big to ban?"

[–] YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub 55 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

He could join one of the Nazi mastodon instances, although I bet he is already on his boss’.

[–] untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 19 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

I heard somewhere truthsocial is a fork of mastodon but has no federation built in

[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 44 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Both Truth and Gab are running on mastodon, yes. Truth doesn't federate, Gab was retaliatory blocked across the fediverse

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 27 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

even stupider, i believe it's a horrible out of date fork of mastodon that's insecure as fuck

[–] untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 18 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

insecure as fuck

then its only a matter of time before they get done to them what those trans hackers did to Andrew Tates social media a few months ago. I think they were trans, idk all I remember about the attack is that they flooded all the chatrooms on it with trans flag emojis and leaked all the user data

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 13 hours ago

ah great now mastodon is gonna get banned like tiktok

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 8 points 20 hours ago

Insecure? You mean about the tiny hands? Remember that?

GUYS! I'M BRINGING BACK THE CLASSICS!

[–] FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, why go there when X is already the nazi twitter.

[–] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 8 points 21 hours ago

That’s exactly why it was doomed to failure the moment Elon was forced to complete his purchase of Twitter.

[–] timewarp@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (2 children)

You're likely thinking of Mastodon.social, where they call any opposition to genocide & war antisemitic & ban you.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 2 points 20 hours ago

Damn, another regime front lol

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[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 45 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

He should join one of the tankie Lemmy instances for a real choice treatment. That would be fun for to watch for 5 minutes

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 19 points 22 hours ago

What we would give for that

[–] Auth@lemmy.world 11 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I'd pay so much money to see JD get 1v1000 dogpiled by tankies on any topic. It might be one of the few times i'd be on their side.

[–] greenbit@lemmy.zip 7 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

They'd just split. There are trans rights deniers there, like that one admin/dev. Some are closer to MAGA than Marx in their allegiances.

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 39 points 22 hours ago

Is Justice Thomas a doctor or a scientist? No?

Then who gives a shit what his opinion is. He should be listening to the experts...not contradicting them. If his ruling is based solely on his personal feelings on this topic, then he needs to recuse himself from this case.

[–] JeSuisUnHombre@lemmy.zip 16 points 21 hours ago

Talking about the highlighted part of Thomas's statement. They're enshrining anti-intellectualism into court rulings

[–] DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world 13 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

"Bad arguments and substandard science" - AKA, this administration's unofficial motto.

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 7 points 20 hours ago

Every accusation is an admission.

[–] SalamenceFury@lemmy.world 9 points 21 hours ago

I'm already seeing reminders on bluesky to JUST block and ignore them. The right wingers who tried invading Bluesky earlier got bored and left cause they all got blocked.

[–] dumbass@quokk.au 5 points 21 hours ago

Hahah I'm enjoy the image of him trying to sign up and finding out his names already taken, having to add underscores and finally attempting it with a number as well.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

How does banning work on bluesky? Is it instance based or network wide.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 11 points 20 hours ago

There is like one main server, so same as reddit

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