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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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[–] letsgo2themall@lemmy.world 11 points 1 hour ago

his account is still active. just checked. this post is also still up.

[–] rayyy@lemmy.world 9 points 3 hours ago

So, here we are. The VP of the supposedly most powerful nation can't even integrate with humans.

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 40 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

"a screenshot from clearsky showing jd vance's account as the most blocked in 24 hours on bluesky"

it's going well.

also lol'ing at the fact that he's jd-vance-1 because jd-vance was taken by a parody account which has a big banner reading "I did not fuck a couch".

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

He should make a tumblr account. Tumblr admins are happy for people to post death threats against trans people and wishes for genocide, but ban trans people for calling out transphobic pseudoscience and Holocaust denial.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 16 points 4 hours ago

James Donald Bowman is a disgrace, a pox on humanity.

And I will use the name he hates against him in every thread I can.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 hours ago

Think you're in trouble now? Wait until Trump expires and the real monster shows his "hillbilly ugly" face.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 21 points 8 hours ago

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

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 13 points 7 hours ago

Isn't Truth Social available for people like him?

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 64 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (3 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.

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

it's not even factually accurate since the majority of medical organizations agree there's no harm in transitioning.

[–] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 3 points 1 hour ago

But what about the harm done to some other random dude who might find "a man in a dress" attractive and now questions his sexuality which is against God's will?

/s

Those are the ones they are putting for quotes around as "experts" because they disagree with them, and therefore must be crackpots.

[–] too_high_for_this@lemmy.world 37 points 8 hours ago

Do you think JD understands

I'mma stop you right there and say no

[–] zout@fedia.io 4 points 8 hours ago

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

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 83 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

BIG PHARMA MAKIN THE KIDS CUT THEY DICKS OFF

god republicans are stupid. So fucking stupid.

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 4 points 3 hours ago

But big religion doing it is OK, it’s just the tip.

[–] Kushan@lemmy.world 14 points 7 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.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 4 points 3 hours ago

More than that, it causes a knee jerk reaction from many liberals as well, and they end up defending a practice that is relevant to about 1% of voters, and isn't that important to a very significant number of voters. So Ds waste a LOT of time defending a subject that isn't very important to most people, instead of the issues they should be focused on, which will attract voters, like Medicare 4 All, or Student Loan Reform, etc.

[–] vaionko@sopuli.xyz 9 points 7 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 2 points 3 hours ago

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.

[–] Jackcooper@lemmy.world 12 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

The hormones used are basically all generics too

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Yeah, Big Pharma is happy to fuck me in lots of ways, but the $20/month (without insurance even!) on my T shots ain’t it.

[–] TommySoda@lemmy.world 151 points 14 hours ago (6 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 1 hour 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 84 points 14 hours ago

Oh absolutely. He's a slimy little fuckstain.

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[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 54 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 28 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I wonder if he was mass reported and temporarily automod banned

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 21 points 13 hours ago

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

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 30 points 12 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 8 points 8 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 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] knightmare1147@lemmy.world 2 points 4 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.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

It does have to do with sea lions?

[–] KingGordon@lemmy.world 31 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] turtlesareneat@discuss.online 25 points 12 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 54 points 14 hours ago (9 children)

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

[–] FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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

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[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 43 points 14 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

[–] Auth@lemmy.world 10 points 12 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 4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 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.

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[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 36 points 14 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 15 points 13 hours ago

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

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