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[–] bstix@feddit.dk 4 points 1 hour ago
[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] Fontasia@feddit.nl 30 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

That man yells out his own name during sex

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 8 points 5 hours ago

Dude needs a mirror to masturbate

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 9 points 6 hours ago

Is it because all the wars they lost? Weird flex.

[–] Piratemob@lemmy.zip 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

He's a secretary. Some office somewhere probably.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 28 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Aneb@lemmy.world 1 points 16 minutes ago

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.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 10 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Every single black, brown, and Asian country, and probably Canada too:

[–] SGforce@lemmy.ca 5 points 9 hours ago

We been looking at you like that since G.W.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 29 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] Aneb@lemmy.world 1 points 10 minutes ago

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)

[–] Typotyper@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 hours ago

In your face about god too,

[–] MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 8 points 9 hours ago

It's the Gulf of MEXICO goddamnit

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 30 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 13 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

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"

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

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.

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 7 points 8 hours ago

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.

[–] zzz711@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 hours ago

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.

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 83 points 16 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 23 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 3 points 9 hours ago

Straight up Q-Anon bullshit.

[–] Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 14 hours ago

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

[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 39 points 15 hours ago

Secretary of w-here are the fucking epstein files?

[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 124 points 18 hours ago (5 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.

[–] too_high_for_this@lemmy.world 10 points 12 hours ago

Yeah, Department of Defense always reminded me of 1984:

The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink.

[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 61 points 17 hours ago (4 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 35 points 16 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 28 points 16 hours ago

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

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[–] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 65 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 12 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 think 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 30 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

This is what happens when you have no personality.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 9 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Aneb@lemmy.world 1 points 4 minutes ago

Pete small dick hegseth, is my head canon tbh

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 20 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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

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[–] BilboBargains@lemmy.world 15 points 14 hours ago (2 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.

[–] Impound4017@sh.itjust.works 8 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, climate change is probably a more accurate description of the situation. Sure, globally on average the planet is warming alarmingly quickly, but it doesn’t always feel that way on a local scale, so a lot of people had an easy time ignoring it, but it’s almost impossible to deny, wherever you live, that our climate is changing if one is capable of remembering their childhood. Temperature extremes get more extreme each year, storms get more intense, ocean levels rise, ecosystems vanish and change, etc. All of these things are a result of warming and greenhouse gases, but unless you’ve got a hard science background, you probably wouldn’t intuitively link all of these things together, so I can see a compelling argument for a better umbrella term. All that said, though, we all kept ignoring it regardless, so what the fuck do I know.

As for your point about America, though, I 100% agree. “The Department of Defense” has always been a euphemism, the convenient kind that lets you look pretty and get away with murder. What’s concerning to me, though, is that a Euphemism only dies for one of two reasons. Either everybody realizes what the euphemism actually means and it becomes synonymous with the phrase they were trying to avoid, or (and this is the much more common case) it becomes unneeded because they no longer need to varnish the truth; a mask off moment. And generally? The euphemism dies right before things get much, much worse.

All I can hope, as an American, is that we come out the other side of this fucking ashamed. Ashamed of ourselves, our beliefs, our actions, and our countrymen. Maybe then we can actually build a nation worthy of calling great, but I’m not holding my breath.

[–] BilboBargains@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Perhaps climate change is a more appropriate description for our lived experience, I'm open to a well reasoned argument. We don't have to go far to see practical examples of the effect of greenhouse gases, with Venus at 500C average surface temperature due to CO2 atmosphere or consider xkcd's temperature timeline with the insanely vertiginous ascent during the last two hundo years. My proposals:

  • Spicy Climate Change
  • Sport Utility Environment
  • Sweaty Ecological Catastrophe
  • Gucci Sweats Planet

Forgot what we were talking about. Department of war. Listening to Sarah Paine on YT, clearly there have been and still are many Americans trying to do the right thing but that isn't what grabs the headlines. The political landscape in general is getting ugly. Far right populists are emerging in Europe and these incels have been emboldened by the facist turn in America. Convenient for the billionaire class and their stooges.

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[–] trager_bombs@lemmy.world 59 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 48 points 17 hours ago (2 children)
[–] trager_bombs@lemmy.world 33 points 17 hours ago

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

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 20 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

For those like me who don't know what tf it is:

Sclerosis (from Ancient Greek σκληρός (sklērós) 'hard') is the stiffening of a tissue or anatomical feature, usually caused by a replacement of the normal organ-specific tissue with connective tissue. The structure may be said to have undergone sclerotic changes or display sclerotic lesions, which refers to the process of sclerosis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sclerosis_(medicine)

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 64 points 18 hours ago

Secretary of DUI, Kegseth

[–] frankenswine@lemmy.world 10 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

War is Peace

Freedom is Slavery

Ignorance is Strength

[–] medusa@sh.itjust.works 15 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Just Sec of Pestilence, Famine, and Death now.

[–] Lawyerator@lemmy.world 14 points 14 hours ago

RFK Jr. has the pestilence thing covered.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 19 points 16 hours ago

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

Right?

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