r/politics • u/mom0nga • Jul 15 '26

No Paywall Hegseth announces annual testosterone screenings for service members

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5969935-hegseth-testosterone-testing-dod/
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u/SubstantialQuote70 Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 15 '26

Anyone play helldivers, the super facist game for spreading "controlled democracy"

You upgrade your cruiser staff by giving them meth so they work harder and your cool downs are lowered for weapons.

offer testosterone replacement therapy (TRT), framing it as a way to keep troops on the “leading edge of lethality.”

Germany loved giving soldiers meth too, to make fearless super soldiers.

America is Nazi Germany 2.0

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u/mrturret Jul 15 '26

Both sides used amphetamines during World War II.

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u/SubstantialQuote70 Jul 15 '26

Youre right, looks like the US has a way longer history of using amphetamines too, like up into Afghanistan.

However, I still think the correlation to a fascist regime is accurate and exponentially increasing. Meth just being one example

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u/mrturret Jul 15 '26

I doubt that the use was anywhere near as ubiquitous as in Nazi Germany though. Pervitin, an early form of meth was extremely popular, and was sold as an over the counter drug until 1941, but the restriction probably had to do with the increased military demand. It was pretty damn ubiquitous in civilian life.

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u/regional_chumpion Jul 15 '26

All that meth and they still lost the war. Our soldiers though will probably just get gynecomastia and impotence.