Looks like that mysterious meeting where Hegseth called in a bunch of generals was to tell them to stop being so woke.

Also Hegseth apparently wants to relax restrictions on hazing and harassment. Hey I’ve got an idea. The military continues to fail its recruitment quotas, let’s raise the physical requirements and foster a more toxic work environment. Hopefully this will result in a more dysfunctional US military and fewer war crimes in the name of imperialism

Death to America

  • Keld [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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    The secretary of war is saying they should deploy the army against the civilian population because of an “invasion from within”, and proposes mechanism by which he can remove dissenters within the armed forces, and openly suggests preparing the armed forces to do battle by first killing civilians

    I don’t quite find this as funny as you guys I guess. The people with the nukes are dangerous, unreliable and untethered to reality.

    I do wonder how much of this is a reaction to the embarrassment that was the military parade, and how much is hegseth playing Göring

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      I agree, we can make fun of their idiocy, but… this some Jakarta Method shit.

      It’s important to recognize the incredibly small number of coin tosses we are from rivers of blood and bodies.

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      Anyone on the left has known about the possibility of violent repression. This isn’t anything new or unexpected. You hold no lever of power, you can’t stop this anyway. Might as well laugh.

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      I wonder why exactly they’re building up so many mechanisms of repression so quickly, what this is in preparation for. A lot of users are saying fascism, which I think is basically going to be forcing the maximum amount of capital possible out of labor - austerity, cruelty, violence… I fear they’ll make nazi labor camps look like a rehearsal