• DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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      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.

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    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!)

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    If we’re honest, this new name more accurately describes the American military than the word defense does

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      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).

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        It’s always interesting to see how and why we’re living in bizarro world.

        Thumbs up to orange man for correcting this mistake.

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        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.

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    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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      If you really did so, I have a question for you: Why did you think you could trust him?

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      The US government has shifted its rhetoric. But you’re fooling yourself if you believe we’ve meaningfully changed our foreign policy.

      Half the joke of the Biden Admin was in how it picked up Trump’s '20-era policies and continued them seamlessly into '25, with little more than a rainbow colored bumper sticker as a fig leaf.

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      Are we still assuming he’ll leave after his 4 years are up?

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        I don’t think he’ll have the mental capacity by then to do otherwise tbh.

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          That’s perfect for the people behind him. They’ll be able to just do the stuff, instead of telling him to.

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          I don’t think he’ll have the mental capacity by then to do otherwise tbh.

          Oh dont worry, Ted Cruz and Maga Mike will be propping up his long stiff corpse ala weekend at Bernies for decades to come.

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    It was known as the department of war until shortly after WW2. This is one change where I appreciate the honesty. Doesn’t make him any better.