If I recall correctly this was more an amusing story of troops stationed in a country where these items were illegal ordering these things to the base and the military trying to remind people to respect local laws. This is probably more about the military not wanting a diplomatic incident with the host country than them morality policing themselves. Reminding a business to not ship items to a country where those items are illegal seems a pretty reasonable thing. For now the US military doesn't care if you order butt plugs to the base, they care if you bring butt plugs into a country where they are illegal.
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Itβs a very US thing to do, that, blaming the adult store instead of or alongside their soldiers.
Yeah because the US is really big on respecting local laws and not causing international incidents. I'm sure a quick perusal of current and historical headlines will reaffirm this stands.
What B's Americans never care about local laws.
She should mail a bunch of butt plugs to the Pentagon.
This means war.
Finally, an issue we can get behind!
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I have no idea what you're talking about.
The store was in Canada, so DOW can just fuck off, eh, please.
Great we are going to get huge tariffs on butt plugs.
Would you pay out the ass for things that go in the ass?
If only there was a way to smuggle them past airport security...
Apparently the US Department of ~~Defense~~War
You had it right the first time.
Congress hasn't made the name change official.
It's not legally changed just because Trump waved his magic ~~wand~~ sharpie and wished it to change.
To be fair, department of war is far more accurate a name.
In some ways it's a bit of a shame that he lacks self-awareness. If he knew what he was doing he could have renamed the press department to be the Department Of Truth and gone all in on the Draconian.
This is squarely on the military personnel ordering buttplugs to their work address.
If you did that anywhere else you'd get in trouble.
I'm self-employed, so the address isn't the problem, but I'd have some splainin to do to the wife.
"I KNOW you didn't order that for ME, so you got something to tell me?"
Why wouldn't you order them for your wife? Does already have some?
Been married a long time, lost that battle long, long ago, before the turn of the century.
Why would I get in trouble for shipping myself something to my work address?
Lots of cities have porch pirates, so shipping to work is done commonly.
Does your work xray packages?
my understanding was military mail gets opened by censors.Β
No, I wouldn't work for an evil employer
This is to their home address. Where do you think they live?
High chance it was a "friend" ordering it for them.
They practically only have a work address when they're overseas. In some cases it's literally the only way to get things sent to you. Why anyone knows or cares is another question entirely.
I read a previous article about this: importing any sex toys (including butt plugs, but they get the headline because the Republicans in power being squeamish about the existence of gay soldiers) are illegal in the country where they are stationed, so they're getting seized by customs and it's awkward since their soldiers are violating local laws.
Because as a queer bisexual man, I can assure you republicans care more about the genitals of other people than we do.
they are quite obsessed with gay sex, and trans people.
And they have the search history to prove it
And the DoSing of Grindr to prove it.
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Ah so it's not just the department of war it's also Bahrain's backwards laws, and the US is obligated to do this any time shit gets sent back I guess.
It's really silly since she even says they have no idea where it's going when they ship to soliders.
They really shouldn't have made such a big deal out of it because now it's going to definitely happen more often.
In some fairness it sounds like the Kingdom of Bahrain are the weird ones here. But still, it sounds like all other arguments aside, she has no way of knowing if a soldier is any particular place. So asking her to stop sending to soldiers in that region is kind of pointless.
Everyone in the Trump admin needs a butt plug, given how full of shit they are
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It's pretty standard for American commenters on social media to unthinkingly assume that American law is somehow "universal." I guess that's the level that the American government in general has descended to at this point.
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