• buttnugget@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    This is a great sign. When they changed the war department to defense department, its primary mission went from defense to war. Now maybe it can go back.

    Can anyone else load the article? I couldn’t. Does it address this?

  • switcheroo@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Sounds like someone is very desperate to keep people from saying WHERE’S THE EPSTEIN FILES???

  • OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works
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    5 days ago

    I mean, it’s a more accurate name I guess. It’s concerning that they’re dropping the euphemism, but it shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone who’s been paying attention.

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      5 days ago

      I mean seriously, things are so bad that’s the least worrying part. It’s not like his base won’t be easily convinced not to care, between his prostitutes, the Russian peepee scandal, “touch them by the pussy”, what he did with his beauty pageants, what he has done with Ghislaine Maxwell, what he has said about his own daughter. His base just does not care, all the grandstanding was all fake.

      He is still going strong with his plans regarding Greenland and Canada, and what he has done with Venezuela is foreboding because it normalizes doing it more and with further steps. The steps he is taking to make the US fascist are far worrying, there’s no shortage of dictators who are completely and utterly detestable yet nothing can be done because they rule in a fascist country. You need to be able to prosecute him to make him having trafficked children for sex matter.

  • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
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    I’d suggest moving the coast guard and national guard, DHS, FBI to department of defense. Department of War/Offense that includes CIA/State department/NSA/Mind control propaganda is good. The $1T+ budget of department of offense represents $10k/year per tax filing household, and it becomes an obvious, even in “I like money” idiocracy state, that people could vote for a $10k dividend instead of paying for the department of offense.

    It was already extreme BS to call US empire funding “defense”.

  • Godric@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Broken clocks and all that, fantastic change. No longer can people hide behind the euphemism.

  • Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works
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    6 days ago

    Unironically the only based thing a president has ever contemplated doing, except, like, the emancipation proclamation.

  • mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    It’s not even that nice when you abbreviate it:

    Before: DOD = Dee Oh Dee. Has a nice flow

    Now: DOW = Dee Oh Dup?

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    6 days ago

    Sounds expensive. How much does it normally cost to rebrand an organisation of this size?

    (and that’s without needing to rewrite references to it in any legislation!)