• ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    18 hours ago

    I first heard the attack helicopter joke from a trans friend who was super into military hardware and she thought it was the funniest shit ever. I didn’t realize it was supposed to be transphobic for years. The way she made it sound was more like “hell yes my gender can be anything and no one can stop me!”

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      17 hours ago

      yeah I put it on forms all the time not in transphobic way but like “who cares !!! And if so why the hell do you wanna know?!?”.

      This on random stuff, for things like social or other studies where I clearly see the intent I usually put a seriously response, now on affiliate or library card why do you need that?

  • 🍉 DrRedOctopus 🐙🍉@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    haven’t told this in a while, used to be in my clipboard.

    the first attack helicopter, the Bell UH-1 Iroquois, was originally designed as a medvac helicopter.

    it was later given a machine gun mount and turned into an attack helicopter.

    NO ONE would say, hey look at that medvac helicopter that identifies as an attack helicopter.

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    20 hours ago

    i feel like attack helicopter in 2021 is kinda crazy. that was a 6 year old “joke” by that point.

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    18 hours ago

    It took me so long to realise it was suppos!d to be a transphobic statement. I usualy seen it in games like tf2 after someone gets into a crazy spot and getting asked how they got up there.

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    16 hours ago

    I like this one. Because it shows us as humans, dipping our toes into something to see if it’s okay and then when we figure out nobody gives a shit, then we can be ourselves.

    There’s a reason why people protesting something usually become it: you are what you think about.