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Really doubling down on that, “he actually is the antichrist” thing.
They have think-tanks dedicated to coming up with the worst decisions possible, for real.
I don’t doubt it, Trump is a Russian Psyop placed in power with the singular goal of incapacitating the United States by sowing chaos.
they already have mtg, hesgeth, tulsi gabbard in on it, trump is thier oldest and most useful asset.
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Onion?
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Sigh…
Might as well. It was originally called that, and the DoD name was always kind of a lame coat of off-white landlord paint.
Yeah but it’s the death of a euphemism. It was good that they had to use a euphemism.
I’ll bite. How is that?
Edit: I watched the death of a euphemism video and understand your point now. My original comment was less of a serious assertion and more voicing my general disdain for the idea of crossing out “War,” writing “Defense,” and continuing to invade countries for decades anyway.
Euphemisms at least indicate shame.
I mean, being ashamed of your evil deeds while still doing them doesn’t make it better.
Kind of? It makes you more likely to moderate, stop earlier, do less atrocities if you think the public won’t like it or is ashamed of it.
I suppose they do, but that doesn’t imply “Department of War” is any less shameful, except for the fact that we know Trump doesn’t have shame and only wants to change the name because it makes him sound more authoritarian.
Im grateful to be able to share this with someone for the first time if you haven’t seen this series yet
Interesting vid, thank you for sharing. I had not seen that before.
The Peace President ✝️
Mr. Nobel Peace prize
He just wants something, anything, as big as Obama’s. Crowd sizes popularity deportations Nobel Peace Prize or of course, well you know…
The dick.
It damn’ small, no?
Lmfao finally something I’m glad he’s doing!
The name change was fucking psychological manipulation for the population. You can’t argue against defense department spending as easily as you can argue against war department spending.
Bring it on! Make our jobs easier you bumbling brainrotted doughnut dictator.
Truly a broken clock.
Makes that ‘are we the baddies?’ a whole lot easier to answer.
Department of Distraction from Child Rape Allegations.
lovd it, so catchy
If we’re honest, this new name more accurately describes the American military than the word defense does
It actually used to be called “Department of War”. It changed in 1947, which was actually right around the time when the United States went full worldwide imperialism (though there were signs well before then).
Might as well have been named the “Department of Fighting Communist Insurgencies”. Truman and Eisenhower unleashed wave after wave of US troops on any pre-ww colonial territory that was trying to throw off the yoke of European occupation.
With Global Communism finally crushed, and ethno-nationalist tin pot plutocrats once again in control of Europe and the Middle East, the US can return to its more McKinley-esque tradition of occupation, enslavement, and extraction. No need to pretend we’re shielding anyone from the villainous Soviet Marxists or the vile and malignant IWW.
It’s always interesting to see how and why we’re living in bizarro world.
Thumbs up to orange man for correcting this mistake.
Say what you will (and there is a lot to say), but MAGA tends to want to undo bad neoliberal habits too.
It’s like a 10 year old boy is leading America
A 10 year old boy who is also a felon, a rapist, and fucks 10 year old girls, while letting other 10 year old boys dictate policy while he golfs and rapes people.
He’s more like a ten year old boy who fucks three-year-old girls who don’t yet have the language to say what happened to them…and when they get snitchy, he threatens them with violence to shut them up, often demonstrating on a small animal.
I think I’m trying to say he’s not just a precocious kid with anger issues, but a precocious kid with a cruelty streak and symptoms of physical neurological effects and poses a danger to himself and others.
… precocious?
As in precocious puberty. Kids who are sexually activated (by premature hormone reactions which can be triggered – not always – by sexual abuse) so they get sexually interested before their peers, and ruin recess for everyone else.
When I was growing up (mind you, I was a late, late bloomer) precocious puberty in girls was punished brutally (say being grounded for life). Precocious puberty in boys was rewarded with early sports careers, unless you sucked, in which case you were punished for being a sex pest. This was a source of bullies that preyed on the rest of us.
This is to say, the US really doesn’t know how to parent or teach or otherwise administrate children. This is also to say I am way, way bitter about it.
ETA This is one of the purposes of puberty blockers, when it’s not used to let questioning trans kids decide to deliberate on what they want to be for a while, so I hope things are generally better. But then, considering how puberty blockers are now politicized, precocious puberty is also politicized, which ruins everyone’s Sunday brunch.
Yeah I think trump is the polar opposite of precocious. He still acts like a spoilt child at 79
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I mean historically the Nobel Peace Prize is given to war criminals, so he deserves it.
I think you’re thinking of the Right Livelihood award. That’s for people who do actual Peace things.
Good.
It should be. At any point in time the US is involved in 5-10 wars since Obama.
Calling it the Dept. of War is honest.
Pretty sure the Carter administration was the last one to have no new wars in over 100 years.
Edit: I was wrong. The US was still involved in wars during his administration.
It’s been super easy finding out the USA has only had 8-34 years of peace in it’s history, not so much what those years pg peace were combing lists on wikipedia with my phone.
Many issues at play:
- In the same way that a lot of people with powerful friends in the city depend on new highway projects, new community centers, new programs being set up, so that their friends can get paid, people in the US government with powerful friends depend on new wars so that everyone can sell weapons and continue to have good quarters.
- The US military benefits enormously from getting a ton of practice. We’re trying to run an empire, and very often big militaries get lazy because their countries do so well that they don’t really have to be scrappy, and people get complacent. War is so shocking and challenging that the only way to really stay good at it is to be doing it. And so, that’s exactly what the US does.
- The US has its fingers in so many pies so to speak that all kinds of shit that happens globally we determine to be our business. Civil war in Syria? Holy shit, better make sure the right people win. Let’s go fuck up some irregular forces that don’t have helicopters or satellite support.
Oh yeah, the military-industrial complex has been an issue since Eisenhower’s warning was ignored on his way out. Then again, he could have done something more about it while in office. JFK had a speech about it and wanted to curtail it before getting assassinated.
I 100% believe that JFK was killed because he was serious about trying to bring some humanity to the US government.
Also why Bobby never achieved the presidency, and he had the balls to tell the rich he was going to tax them to pay for a better social safety net.
There’s a pretty good book called “Playing With Fire” about the politics of the late 60s and the events of the time. I had to stop reading it, it’s too sad. Bobby Kennedy talking to the crowd after MLK was shot, not knowing that he was going to be dead the same way a short time later, just fucked me up, I put it down.
Absolutely. The wealthy in the USA fail to be able to see a profit margin from empathy or humane policy.
It was an issue during his presidency, when he actively participated in (at the time) the largest expansion of our nuclear arsenal in history. Eisenhower. like all American presidents, was a hypocrite.
I’m so glad President Trump is focused on the important issues, like renaming bodies of water, mountains, schools, and federal institutions. I didn’t need lower grocery prices anyway.
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WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
Time is money, money is power, power is pizza, and pizza is knowledge, let’s go!
wait back up i wanted pizza
Too late buddy! You just got knowledged!
Classic April.
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