Hegseth Announces Elon Musk and Newt Gingrich Will Help Lead Military

12 comments

• kibiz0r4

  Satire just keeps getting deader

• Narri N. (they/them)4via usa@lemmy.ml

  So the plan here seems to be to fire bunch of the top brass in the armed forces and replace them with a bunch of tech bros and their School Triple Striker 3000 hallucinators? This plan will surely not backfire, only good things can come!

  It truly is amazing to witness the decline of the empire live, the Romans just got to notice post hoc how no one came around to fix the roads anymore. Now only if my peripheral home state hadn't already been completely intertwined with the Zionist Genocide Empire, with the knuckleheads in charge doubling down on the "no can do" rhetoric. As if they weren't aware of the genocide in Palestine, or indeed the genocidal history of the US and NATO, or the multiple and constant crimes against humanity done under them. I guess the prospects of sharing the imperial plunder from the global south has always been too much for these neoliberal profit chasers. No can do indeed.

  • eldavi2

    your material surroundings determine your politics

    -- paraphrased from marx

    i shudder at the thought that i would be one of these fucktards if i were straight, or white passing or neurotypical.

    • Narri N. (they/them)2

      great paraphrase, cause that's about the gist of it. i often think back on my own childhood and youth, being raised neurotypical, straight, white, male in a culture of neurotypical, straight, white, male supremacy; and yet as i've grown older i've learnt that i actually might be only one of these. neurodivergence should have been evident long ago (but alas, the material realities of my childhood/youth didn't support this happening); as should have non-straightness (but homophobia seeps deep); race isn't real, but one can't escape their pale complexion; and after coming out of the closet with my sexuality i've began to suspect my gender also but this is an ongoing process of sorts, so i've settled on nonbinary.

      it seems the marginalized find the liberal society fascist first. "funnily" enough, my political deprogramming started really happening after working with the local LGBTQ+ group for a while, and finding comrades among them.

• MaxLemminist3via usa@lemmy.ml

  Great news.
  It will make the paper tiger army suck and lose even more.

• The Infinite Nematode2via usa@lemmy.ml

  This is an onion article, right? Right??

• ShinkanTrain1via usa@lemmy.ml

  May he lead it as well as he did Twitter.

  Heck, he will have very little work to do since it already all Nazis in there.

• yuki_gassen1via usa@lemmy.ml

  Wait til they send out grok to recruit at high schools 😭

• Noel_Skum1via usa@lemmy.ml

  Put down the crack pipe, Pete. Take a day off, lad.

• Zedstrian7via usa@quokk.au

  Gingrich hasn't held an elected office since 1999; he belongs in a nursing home, not in any position of power.

  • alapakala1

    precisely why Pete wants wants him as Chief, so he can control both, since Elon is not a US citizen.

• alapakala4via usa@quokk.au

  I no longer want to read Democrats typing “but the military will oppose this.”