President Donald Trump announced Monday the Department of Defense will likely be renamed the 'Department of War'; within a week.
  • axx@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    15 days ago

    The president of peace and all that.

    We all agree this is just distraction and the arbitrary nonsense is really the point: “we make up what is true” is what they are trying to show.

  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    15 days ago

    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.

      • PhilipTheBucket@piefed.socialEnglish
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        15 days ago

        Many issues at play:

        1. 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.
        2. 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.
        3. 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.
        • stringere@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          15 days ago

          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.

            • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              14 days ago

              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.

              • PhilipTheBucket@piefed.socialEnglish
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                14 days ago

                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.

  • MourningDove@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    15 days ago

    Can someone just get this child a bunch of pillows and blankets that he may make his dream fort so the adults can get to work fixing shit?

  • blaze@programming.devEnglish
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    15 days ago

    They missed a great chance to pull directly out of 1984 and call it the Ministry of Peace.

  • humanspiral@lemmy.caEnglish
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    15 days ago

    This is actually great. It is a big problem that department of offense has always masqueraded as national security instead of insecurity.

  • salacious_coaster@infosec.pubEnglish
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    15 days ago

    Might as well. It was originally called that, and the DoD name was always kind of a lame coat of off-white landlord paint.

    • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      15 days ago

      Well, Dept. of War and Dept. of The Navy became DoD. I used to work for them, some people think I’m a Veteran because I use the block print and the 24h time and today is 25Aug25. I’m not, never been shot at but that shit just gets ingrained in you.