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

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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

      • No, the Nazis can’t be the bears.

        Us commies are the bears!

        Because, well, Hexbear, sure, but also, the Soviet Bear! And the way China is always represented as a panda. Usually a very huggable panda. If anyone in this mess is huggable and fluffy, it’s the left.

        Great, now I want a 🐼 hug. Or just a hug from a comrade wearing something fluffy. Any of you hexagonal bears want a hug?

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      They like to rally against wokeness because it’s ill-defined and nebulous and yet every single chud seems to know what it refers to. It can be anything. I’m remembering the other week when asked what prompted Trump to return the DoD’s name to the Department of War, he claimed the military “went woke” after WW2.

      Chuds use the term woke how libs use the term authoritarian. It means bad thing.

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      These chuds hate civility because it requires them to actually consider other people around them instead of being able to say or do whatever racist or ridiculous thing that pops into their little crank shacks without consequence to themselves. It’s just liberalism coming to its inevitable conclusion.

    • What is with the hatred for manners? Like why is there such a strong revolt against being a nice guy?

      There was a pretty strong reaction against marriage equality/trans acceptance in the u.s. The whole Alpha Male shit started then and only grew more and more toxic as time went on. amerikan/western masculinity was never great but got much worse when marriage equality happened. Add in the fact that people never really recovered from 2008 and thats only getting worse, you got a recipe for classic fascism. The weirmar republic was tolerant , had a vibrant LGBTQ scene, the sexual Institute (that the nazis burned all the books) etc etc and then came the extreme reaction. Capital and the cishet nuclear family are inseparable it seems.

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      “Woke” doesn’t mean “manners”, and it’s really depressing that an AAVE term that used to mean something to us has been bastardized to this extent. The original context was that “woke” meant being “aware” of your place in society as a Black person. It meant that you understood that this place was not meant for you, that you are a colonized person living in a settler colony. It was the opposite of “sleep”, which commonly means unaware or not conscious, another word that was interchangeable with woke.

      It was white liberals who took the term that was popular amongst us and made it into a joke by claiming to be woke while engaging in performative anti-racism. The chuds caught onto this, and eventually it became a pejorative for things that chuds don’t like, and apparently “civility” now.

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    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

    And hopefully this results in more rank n file soldiers fragging their commanders picard-excited

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    I am completely living for Trump’s rambling and “there’s two n-words, and you can’t use either of them” regarding nuclear subs. The man’s brain is 70% gazpacho, what is this timeline?

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    This was far less ominous than I expected. I expected some declaration of war or that they need to be prepping hard for war.

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    critical support to herr hegseth for defeating the army of the great colonial empire, i guess

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    This might be a distraction, I just read that another big fleet of tankers have flown to the Middle East (flight data tracking). The last time a big fleet of US tankers flew to the Middle East was preparation for the recent bombing of Iran.

    edit: yesterday Netanyahu called the Qatar PM to apologize for the recent bombing of Doha, and now a huge fleet of US tankers (which means fighters and bombers are also heading there) are assembling in Qatar US airbase. Hope Iran is better prepared this time around to protect their generals and scientists, and ffs stop using Western mobile devices…