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[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 20 points 1 hour ago

Secretary of w-here are the fucking epstein files?

[–] BilboBargains@lemmy.world 6 points 42 minutes ago (1 children)

At least it is accurate. The Americans are a warlike nation founded on a genocide. Orwell wrote extensively on the power of words to change a narrative and the way we feel, it is insidious and very common in the world of politics and business in a way that it is absolutely uncommon in the world of science where only the truth matters. The oil industry convinced us that we ought to soften Global Warming to the more benign Climate Change for no other reason than it makes them look less culpable. Hilarious that trump would choose this thing to tell us the truth. Gotta start someplace I guess.

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 2 points 8 minutes ago

“Global Warming” tended to generate doubters each time winter was cold, unfortunately - the bathtub analogy helped a bit.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 1 points 5 minutes ago

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.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 3 points 14 minutes ago

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.

[–] frankenswine@lemmy.world 3 points 23 minutes ago* (last edited 23 minutes ago)

War is Peace

Freedom is Slavery

Ignorance is Strength

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 47 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Burninator05@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

He was also an undercover FBI informant in the Democraric hoax that are the Epstein files.

[–] Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 56 minutes ago

Plus the FBI just released an official document setting the record straight; Definitely not a small penis.

[–] philosloppy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

the thing to do here is to continue referring to it as the DoD. I know that nobody of any consequence will do anything that could be construed as interesting but a person can dream

[–] medusa@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Just Sec of Pestilence, Famine, and Death now.

[–] Lawyerator@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago

RFK Jr. has the pestilence thing covered.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 17 points 3 hours ago

So Donald or anyone in his family are going to do their service now then?

Right?

[–] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 44 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

Used to have a roommate like this in first year of college. They just stick to this one stupid thing that they thing are hyper-masculine (in his case, it was going shooting and owning big guns) and they won't shut up about it. These fuckers are so annoying. Like we get it bro, you're a big manly man, now stfu about it. These are usually the most childish people irl.

[–] Gowron_Howard@lemmy.world 14 points 2 hours ago

This is what happens when you have no personality.

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 9 points 3 hours ago

And I’ll be a ten that he’s complained about “vegans always telling everyone about it”.

[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 9 points 3 hours ago

I hope he found Crossfit, at least then it's expected.

[–] Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

He must be a true warrior.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago

He must be a true wario

[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 74 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

I dunno, it's a pretty huge deal of a change. It's literally historic and a major sign of the times. As others have pointed out, I actually enjoy this less duplicitous name. But the context of the change does not bode well.

[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 38 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

So, yes and no - It was the "Department of War" for most of the country's existence. Truman changed it in 1947 when doing a massive overhaul of the military and intel parts of the government. Also, just calling "Department of Defense" hasn't prevented us from getting into a whole mess of wars since then.

I do agree that it's a sign of the times in terms of "everything old is new again" and undoing the 20th century, which is the T47/project 2025 stated goal. Sure as shit, we're making incredible progress towards returning to 1860.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

FDR changes name from War to Defense, and Congress hasn't declared War since. They're just special military operations

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 14 points 3 hours ago

Pretty much. We bombed Vietnam and killed a bunch of middle eastern people. Just a bunch of special military operations.

[–] BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago

Looking into it, the department of war had removed the navy 150 years before. Arguably the DoD was a new department to encompass the department of the navy and the department of the army(the previous department of war) without the implication that the army was in charge being associated with the war department without the navy for so long. The naming, I could argue, is disrespectful to the US Navy of the late 1790s to the late 1940s.

[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 24 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Might as well call it what it is. "The Department of Imperialism".

[–] mrlemmyhimself@lemmy.world 16 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I thought that was the CIA

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago

That was when we still cared about being part of the UN so we would just quietly do it behind the scenes

[–] trager_bombs@lemmy.world 51 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Liver damage needs to hurry TF up breh, he's so embarrassing.

[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 41 points 4 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 hours ago

Liver sclerosis would be pretty bad too, if it were a thing

[–] trager_bombs@lemmy.world 30 points 4 hours ago

Look, man, I'm doing my best on a motor with no compression here 😔

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 52 points 5 hours ago

Secretary of DUI, Kegseth

[–] Juice@midwest.social 8 points 3 hours ago

Imagine making "I'm the secretary of war of the most well funded military the world has ever known" as your whole personality. Sad, pathetic, get a hobby, get a real job

[–] ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 12 points 4 hours ago

W.orthless A.lcoholic R.apists/Racists

Makes sense to me

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Just out of curiosity, how many wars have you people won on your own?

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 12 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

A couple engagements against Mexico and clobbered the absolute hell out of the geriatric of the Spanish Empire at the turn of the century. I would also go so far as to say European powers did essentially nothing against the Empire of Japan during WW2, but the Chinese fought a nasty decade long war against the Japanese with serious technical and military support from the US. The Pacific theater was essentially the US Naval Department (Navy and Marines) vs the Japanese Naval Department while the bulk of both Armies were preoccupied in different theaters.

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago

Mmm, have to disagree on the European powers not doing anything against Japan. While true that the island hopping campaign of MacArthur was the majority of what was going on, the British forces were heavily engaged in the China Burma India theatre which was a nasty, nasty ground war that helped keep the Nationalist Chinese in the fight by delivering supplies via the Burma road and over the "hump" by air.

[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 9 points 3 hours ago (4 children)
[–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 12 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Due to not punishing the traitors hard enough, we really only paused it.

[–] CuriousRefugee@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Northerners: The American Civil War

Southerners: The War for States' Rights

Deep Southerners: The War of Northern Aggression

Deep Deep Rednecks: North 1, South 0, HALFTIME!

[–] piranhaconda@mander.xyz 1 points 1 hour ago

I went to college, only about 10 years ago, somewhere where the redneck fraternity chanted "1, 2, 3 Robert E Lee! 3, 2, 1 South Shoulda Won!"

[–] dellish@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Really? There was absolutely no French assistance there?

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

Well, they also lost that one.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 7 points 3 hours ago

The confederates had indirect help from some other countries, but they didn't win so... Yeah.

Secretary of binge drinking

[–] desmosthenes@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago
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