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One of the diehard trumpers/magadiots on my Facebook feed was posting some tripe about how Switzerland had banned mammograms and that Canada, Italy and others were about to follow suit. I tend not to argue with people on FB or call them out for their stupid ***** (well some of the hardcore libs I will when they accuse Musk of not solving world hunger forever by lack of him donating 6B to UNICEF...) but I was in shock that I actually felt compelled to post a link that refuted such a nonsensical idea: https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/switzerland-has-not-banned-mammograms-contrary-online-claims-2025-02-20/ The dem/lib crowd has had their share of stupidity but damn, the trumpers are giving them a run for their money these days.

I just hope her hair stylist can find work.

Since when is losing in OT a humiliation? Shoot, we practically consider it a win when it's the Sabres.

I think the bolded is something upon which we can all largely agree. As much as they shouldn't have to negotiate a peace deal that concedes land, the alternative is endless conflict (they can't win outright, just bank on Russia giving up) and at a certain point we can't be expected to bankroll them until that happens. I'm pro-Ukraine but when is enough death and money?

I think they were $800 hammers...

No, the veteran who just advocated for a "giant" military budget didn't realize that China poses a threat. I also think our military budget has a metric shitton of waste, and asking people to sharpen their pencils after years of funding stupid and wasteful projects isn't a terrible idea. I'd be shocked if they even hit 3%, but having aspirations isn't a bad thing. Jesus, you're a ***** mess dude.

Are you implying we still don't have the largest military budget? Larger than the next 8 closest combined? I'm all for a giant military budget. It just used to be that you guys weren't.

Liberals in 2010: We have the biggest military budget in the world! Cut military spending! Liberals in 2025: OMG we're going to reduce military spending by a target of 8% per year, the sky is falling.

Read my original response. I don't think it should be removed. It's stupid. But it ain't banned.

Still publicly available in many places, including public libraries and amazon.com if anyone would like to read it. AKA not banned. Keep trying though.

Or maybe it's the very disingenuous use of the term "banned" that has most people ignoring it or rolling their eyes. The DoD removing material from DoD run schools is not a "ban". It can be overzealous, and downright stupid, but calling it a "ban" especially given the constant undercurrent of Nazi Germany comparisons, is nonsense.

Hitler said the Jews were a cancer that must be removed in 1919. He was pretty clear from the onset. How terrifying it must be to live in some skewed reality where you actually believe Trump is going to round people up and put them in gas chambers.

Saying that male athletes like Lia Thomas don't have an advantage is pure nonsense. The amount may be negligible to you, but to those girls competing it's everything. It's like the unemployment rate. Most people don't care what the rate is. It's either 0% or 100% that matters to people. You're either employed or you're not.

Meh, I'm not super wound up about it, just curious why you seem to have such an issue with something that's common sense. Really, the only part that is annoying to me, is how the girls who stand up for themselves are painted as transphobic. The injury stuff, while sad, is probably overblown for the most part. You could probably find similar examples all across the spectrum where there were no trans people involved.

No one cares that people are trans. You're being purposefully obtuse. Just keep boys out of girls sports. It's not complicated.

I'll bite. Could it possibly mean defending against large scale deception? It's not exactly a stretch.

I mean, have any of you heard of a Federal employee complaining they were unable to retire or delayed for any reason? Me neither. Seems like a non-issue. And re: record retention - they don't ever dispose of this stuff. They should but often don't. It's easier to shove it into storage than actually adhere to the policy.

I mean, I get it. The government uses way too much paper at all levels (from municipalities all the way to D.C.) and yes they rely on antiquated and woefully inefficient processes, but with all that being said this claim doesn't really hold water for me. Iron Mountain is just a repository where these documents go to live and in most cases never seen again. No one is processing retirement paperwork down there, and it's incredibly unlikely that anyone has to go down there to retrieve something in order to effectuate someone's retirement.

Are you literally just discovering Iron Mountain?

Now that they are going to turn their sights on the Pentagon, I wonder if the outrage will come down a bit.

Your implications are pretty clear. You're no different than those posting memes about Nazi's experimenting on Jewish prisoners with lethal injections, comparing that to deporting illegal immigrants that are rife on Facebook these days. It's silly.

Yeah being deported and sent back to your home country= being rounded up in your own country and gassed with zyclon B.

Like I said, not advocating for less, it's more of a knee-jeek reaction like "who the hell could possibly not know this?".

I want to be clear that I'm not opposed to continued awareness. I just take exception to the fact that the commercials always seem to imply that no one has ever heard of it. Like it's something we discovered over the weekend. It's just a bit of an offense to my sensibilities. I'm not advocating for less, just want to be clear about that.

I like boobs and I want to make sure people have access to preventative medicine including cancer screening. But with that being said, is there any one with a television who isn't aware of breast cancer? I don't really take exception to these ads, but I'm moderately offended by the notion that there isn't enough awareness.