• OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works
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    1 hour 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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    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”.

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

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      24 hours ago

      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.

      • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        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.

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            As in precocious puberty. Kids who are sexually activated (by premature hormone reactions which can be triggered 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. 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.

          • smeenz@lemmy.nz
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            Yeah I think trump is the polar opposite of precocious. He still acts like a spoilt child at 79

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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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        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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        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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    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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    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!)