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Owner Of Adult Store Stunned After Pentagon Demands She Stop Shipping Butt Plugs To Soldiers In Middle East (www.comicsands.com)

submitted 9 months ago by schizoidman@lemmy.zip to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from : https://kopitalk.net/c/canada/p/195203/owner-of-adult-store-stunned-after-pentagon-demands-she-stop-shipping-butt-plugs-to-sold

Apparently the US Department of ~~Defense~~War thinks that they can order non-US citizens not resident in the USA to cease and desist from mailing things.

Uh…

Hilarity of the items involved aside, the gall of the US military postal service to give orders to civilians not under their command and not even of their nation is shocking.

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[–] tyler@programming.dev 15 points 9 months ago (1 child)

I’ve seen this article with at least 5 different verbs now. “Stunned”, “gobsmacked”, yadda yadda yadda

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[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago

This Lemmy commenter S L A M M E D journalists with a snarky comeback - you will be surprised to find out why

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