• Hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Calling the military “defense” has always been doublespeak. Its literally the opposite of what they do. Department of war is the correct term.

    Obviously this administration are all monsters, and they’re changing the name because they think they think it sounds intimidating. But the name change is the one good thing this administration has done, clearly in error.

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      DoD uses to be called DoW, but was changed to give a better image of the country. Reverting back to DoW under this administration, is not the good sign people think it is.

      Also, that joke Pete Hegseth can’t even do a proper pull up, let alone a chin up. Pathetic.

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    Trump is an old dying man, and he wants to be able to say on his death bed that he made permanent changes to the world , by his will alone.

    Changing names of organizations (DOD/DOW)

    Changing names of places (Gulf of America)

    Creation of organizations (Space Force)

    Dissolution of organizations (USAID)

    Permanent land acquisitions (Greenland, Panama Canal, Sometimes entire Nation of Canada)

    This is the exact same mentality of Putin, Putin wont be around forever, Putin wants to be immortalized in Russian folklore.

    This is just Trump’s dumb ideas of immortality. fingers of it at least

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      Don’t forget the 15 or (however many) wars he’s single-handedly ended and is therefore definitely deserving of a Nobel Peace Prize

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      Issue is, when he dies, the people of Seven Mountain Dominion just can continue their work, full force. Whether that will cause the collapse of the dominionist US is a question, and there’s also tge question of all the tech corpos.

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    11 hours ago

    You know when guys buy big trucks to overcompensate their other shortcomings? Well…

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    You can point this out to the average person, they’ll still say you’re overreacting.

    Like between this rename, and the “trump was fbi informant” bs, I’m wondering if I’m in a simulation, cuz this is absolutely insane, literally is amateur tv script, unbelievable, if this aired on TV, it would have worse rating than GoT season 8.

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      But its the real world unfortunately, it looks so stupid from the outside but I have lost all my friends to MAGA. Tell me how an evil orange clown controls the narrative for more than half the new coverage. He only supports his cronies and gives the middle finger to anyone who makes less than million dollars annually. This our collective timeline, fucking hell.

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    So the orange Cheeto, who is trying to get the Noble Peace Prize… just wrote an EO rename things to the Department of War

    God I wish you could turn cognitive dissonance into harnessable energy.

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    did they officially change it from defense? that might be the first honest thing they’ve done in their miserable lives in pursuit of fascistic grandstanding.

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      My first split-second initial reaction was “oh hey they’re being honest for once”, but that was very swiftly followed by “oh fuck what are they teeing up here, they’re not doing this for no reason”

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        I think they are just trying to start some wars so Trump can stay in power. Probably in central america? They did just sink a boat / murdered some people there.

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        Trump has been calling himself a war-time president (the war is unspecified) and saying how nice it would be if he could suspend elections and stay in power due to a war. This has been in the making for a while. If he’s still alive in 3 years, he’ll start a war to stay in power.

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      Right now it’s an alternate name via executive order. Officially changing the name from Department of Defense to Department of War requires an act of Congress.

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    Isn’t it interesting? For people who hate “woke” and rally against gender identity transitioning, they sure love transitioning the identity of an entire government department and complaining when people dead name it. Snowflakes, the lot of them.

    Edit: For bonus points, remember that these are the kind of conservative that bitch about LGBTQ people “making it everyone else’s business,” while they themselves are extremely in-your-face about these changes.

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      My dad’s Facebook bio is “Trans-Millionaire” even though he makes less than 6 figures. I don’t think my dad has ever seen a million dollars in his bank account but to him he is just as important as those rich assholes who sit on top and make it harder for the rest to breathe clean air. My dad, as you guessed it, is extremely transphobic and a cunt (they are pretty synonymous)