More than 800 records of service members who were kicked out of the military under the ā€œdonā€™t ask, donā€™t tellā€ policy were recently upgraded toĀ receiveĀ honorable discharges, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Tuesday.

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    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.

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      this headline was 100% readable for someone old enough to have lived through this nonsense. seems trivial to lookup the policy if young ones are unfamiliar

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        A: ā€œDont ask dont tellā€ is a completely made up bullshit phrase specific to the US that makes no sense outside of context

        B: Without knowing about A its impossible to know whether them getting a ā€œhonorable dischargeā€ is an improvement or not.

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        Nah. Iā€™m plenty old enough and itā€™s a shit headline, probably purposeful ragebait.

        More than 800 service members ejected from US military under ā€˜donā€™t ask, donā€™t tellā€™

        WTF how is that possible, is that still in effect in some way??

        receive honorable discharges

        ā€¦ oh. Whew.

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      It was literally answered right by Googleā€™s AI when i googled it if youā€™re not aware the history of queer people in the world enough to know about a big issue that happened in a major global actorā€™s military in 1993 until 2011.

      I always felt like there isnā€™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?

      Thereā€™s already so little interaction with the posted content here and you canā€™t even bother to try?