Most of the replies here aren't giving you a solid answer, though @finitebanjo@lemmy.world was close—so sorry about that.

At one point, the bill text included anti-refugee, anti-CRT, and other controversial provisions that Republicans added, but those were fortunately removed.

However, the anti-trans language was reportedly "slipped in" during the final stages and didn’t even appear in the bill summary. The bill itself has been described as "must pass," which means it’s prioritized regardless of what’s in it.

Final takeaway: Bad actors in Congress added the language, and Biden didn’t care enough about trans rights to thoroughly review it.

Sources:

• Military.com Article
• Wikipedia: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025

“it’s totally silent if i plug my ears and totally dark if i close my eyes”!

thank you for your service. this is the type of post i wish would get downvoted to the floor. if we can’t get basic googleable facts right in !news@lemmy.world how can we have any hope for accuracy in reporting on climate catastrophe and genocide? hawt damb

weird misinformation?

if you actually read any biography or even wikipedia article you will find a whole host of reasons including healing miracles, exorcisms, and completely non-miraculous things like founding monastaries and writings that also played a role in his sainthood.

so your citation, while true, is just drastically misleading by implying this colander thing was somehow the only reason the dude gets to be saint. in the end i even agree with your rhetorical goals, but there’s no need to lie to get there? i’m not even a theological scholar i just… know how to read wikipedia.

cc @the_crotch@sh.itjust.works

they are pasting that comment everywhere i doubt there was any personal motivation behind it lmao

you are SO c/lostlemmyers my friend

a Black man earning 8 cents an hour flipping burgers separated from his family for most of the rest of his life because he was caught with drugs once under Reagan’s racist policy reading this: oh hell yeah i find this to be totally fair

get real.

i was being genuine come join my church we have softserve and bagels

that’s why i worship oil and medicine execs, they have never hurt or killed anyone with their hands and they help make the world go round!

on a personal level this is hella cringe but from a social perspective i love this so much

My understanding is that this is contentious, and some scholars believe that the invasion was truly done to expand territory (not an uncommon theme in world history) and/or that the hierarchal system in Tibet, while inequitable, was hardly comparable to the Western model of slavery. So just be careful I guess?

also… “focus”? iirc it was like 2-3 tweets so… idk if we can give him that much credit

I didn’t laugh at Kanye till he came out as a Nazi. Even when he had his MAGA hat on he was supporting i.e. Colin Kaepernick and 13th Amendment changes and that was pretty cool despite the other loser behavior. Also: Bernie Sanders certainly has focused on the 13th amendment.