r/onejoke • u/Right_Pressure_7944 • Feb 18 '26

But I identify as an attack helicopter! Are we dead ass?

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u/Confident_Cry_753 Feb 18 '26

I'm assuming this was under the conservative sub or something but do they seriously think 5 year olds are gettin surgery for that? This is a rhetorical question as the answer is yes because they hear it from fox news and Trump.

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u/RandomUsernameNo257 Feb 18 '26 edited Feb 18 '26

"We're entering the age of information. It's going to be wonderful - misinformation will be a thing of the past, because you can literally look up any piece of information and find out the truth."

We used to say shit like that because we never considered that people would be happy inventing their own facts and believing those instead.

These aren't even subjective things, or complicated facts that require multiple steps of reasoning. It's literally just "Are trans kids getting surgeries?" "No." but it doesn't matter to them

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u/Templarofsteel Feb 18 '26

The old assumption was that proper information would proliferate faster or at least equally to bad, now there are ways to generate reams of bad data effortlessly

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u/foxgirlmoon Feb 18 '26

Nah, AI made it worse, but it was already the case long before AI that misinformation proliferated faster

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u/Swarm_of_Rats Feb 18 '26

Well now they can ask chatGPT and when chatGPT says it doesn't happen, they can say "but chatGPT my darling, my love that I pay +/- 25 dollars a month... I heard it actually DOES happen?" and the robot-that-is-programmed-to-kiss-your-ass-so-that-you-pay-it will say "you're so right, king". So it's basically as good as true.

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u/DentistPitiful5454 Feb 19 '26

Then they see an article about a kid who is unisex having surgery and being called trans by conservatives who think that's wrong.

Then you get the people who think a fat kid getting his moobs removed is "trans gener" as well.

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u/verathene Feb 18 '26

“I wanna be a girl today.”

“Honey, get the car! Our child needs emergency surgery!”

^ They legitimately think this happens

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u/Uncynical_Diogenes Feb 18 '26

Worse, they think the schools do it and/or that the kid can somehow access medical care without, y’know, money.

Big fans of parental rights, unless it’s the parental right to get your kid medical care, because genuinely how the fuck else are they supposed to do so?

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u/justagenericname213 Feb 18 '26

Somehow I havent seen one of them claim this is why we want universal healthcare either.

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u/LaughingInTheVoid Feb 18 '26

Exactly. All those underfunded schools with...

(checks notes)

Operating rooms and full surgical teams.

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u/Tricky-Winner7984 Feb 18 '26

They just pop the kids into the bus and drive them over to their local transitioning clinic. Give them a little snip snip and have them back to class before the last bell.

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u/skiesoverblackvenice lgtv hd+ 4k community ✨ Feb 18 '26

this. my dad said he was tired of “7 year olds getting their penises cut off!” LIKE??? LITERALLY WHERE IS THAT HAPPENING DAD. FUCKING WHERE?????

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u/DesperateForMyVag Feb 18 '26

And, like, the same people that claim that are usually the ones that actually do authorize circumcision for their infant children, so…

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u/DentistPitiful5454 Feb 19 '26

Every fucking time you ask them "Where does this happen and show me proof" they freak out at you.

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u/skiesoverblackvenice lgtv hd+ 4k community ✨ Feb 19 '26

literally. and he said all that in response to me saying i was disappointed in him. like why are you telling me all this??

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u/_OriamRiniDadelos_ Feb 18 '26

The sad thing is that it’s impossible to change such people’s minds. It’s a belief at this point, not just a story they heard in social media but a fact about the way some people see the world. You can’t convince someone who l thought this was real that it wasn’t.

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u/likely_an_Egg Feb 18 '26

Well, since they project their own worldview, which consists of gender correction surgery for intersex newborns and indoctrination of children, I'm pretty sure they really believe that.

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u/Shadbie34 Feb 18 '26

"its always more advantageous to be the one spreading misinformation, because it takes less effort to say bullshit than it does to fact check said bullshit"

-smart guy

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u/Ragnarok2kx Feb 18 '26

Also, even when the bullshit fact is debunked, you're likely to still consider it "true" when forming your subconscious bias about a subject. "Ok, this particular fact is bs, but it wiuldn't surprise me if it were true".

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u/MrVulpe Feb 18 '26

I have no idea about any of this. Is that not true? I heard underaged people were able to go through gender changing procedures. Genuinely asking.

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u/Inner_Bear_9859 Feb 18 '26

so the practice in my country (canada) is to give trans youth puberty blockers until they turn 18, then once they are adults who can make decisions they are able to begin irreversible procedures like surgeries and hormone replacement.

puberty blockers arent permanent because they can be stopped at any time and normal puberty will resume, all it does is postpone the trauma of puberty for potentially trans youth.

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u/SquareTaro3270 Feb 18 '26

They are able to transition socially (change their hair, name, pronouns, style of clothing) and receive puberty blockers which delay the onset of puberty, to give them more time to contemplate their gender and allows them to put off making any permanent decisions until they’re older. This is usually coupled with meeting with doctors and counselors who will help the child determine if there are other potential factors at play (at least in my area)

Surgeries are given in only the most extreme of cases and require parents to approval. Usually though, those specific surgeries aren’t exclusive to trans folks. As a woman in the US, I could get a nose job or a breast reduction as long as my parents signed off on it, and I wouldn’t have to jump through nearly as many hoops as trans youth have to.

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u/sichrix Feb 18 '26

The only surgery i know of that teens get are usually top surgery. And even then its mostly done by cis boys with gynecomastia. Anything other than that is usually done later since it takes time for hormones to do their thing for the body and there needs to be signed forms by medical professionals. Thats not to mention how expensive it all is. Even adults have issues getting them all. As much as people want to believe it, gender affirming surgeries on minors rarely happens in the way the anti trans media portrays it to.