The U.S. military has killed hundreds of noncombatants since gutting its Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response mission last year. After significant blowback, the Defense Department is considering partially restoring the program.

Shortly after taking office last year, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth polled the nation’s top commanders about cutting a program designed to protect civilians during U.S. military operations.

Hegseth had bet senior officers would endorse his view that focusing on civilian security was “woke” and out of step with “maximum lethality,” current and former defense officials told ProPublica.

Instead, every commander rebuffed the idea.

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[–] 29 points 2 months ago

What a fucking ignorant racist drunk Nazi

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  • [–] 24 points 2 months ago

    He just wants to murder his ex-wife so badly, that doing it by proxy via killing unarmed civilians and people in boats is his only coping method.

    Remember him abusing his wife and making her fear for her life while he cheated on her with 5 different women?

    What a fucking loser scumbag piece of shit. Just not enough expletives in the English lexicon to accurately describe what a fucking loser weak ass dip-shit this sorry excuse for a man is.

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    Hegseth is a psycho murderer, drunk, ex-Fox News host. Completely unqualified. Yet, here we are.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Psychopathy and arrogance, all in one man.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    Kegsbreath is the type of "person" who would cut the program just because it sounds weak in his mind. Least qualified person for any position ever.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 months ago (6 children)
  • [–] -1 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    How Mutch account 33 or 34 ,have to count them, lot of work, people are seeing this also ,

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Yea and? Doesn't make me a bot lmao

    I rotate between them or use them for:

    1. Promoting smaller instances, because of the volume of my posting it helps makes smaller instances more recognizable
    2. Making comms on fitting smaller instances (e.g. a programming comm id make on programming.dev)
    3. Mitigating against the imposter problem
    4. Better interconnecting smaller instances

    Why am I cross-posting .ml content?

    I cross-post from .ml to the nearest relevant non-.ml comm to reduce the influence of .ml comms and indirectly, the instance as a whole, to help vitalize non-.ml comms and make it an easier decision for other instance admins to defederate because one key reason I identified that admins don't want to defederate is because .ml still has some very large comms and some active niche comms.

    Megathread on the issue

    Some highlights from the link:

    Dessalines, head .ml admin, lead Lemmy dev actively spreading genocide denialism https://sh.itjust.works/post/61371958

    .ml admin, Nutomics continued transphobia https://lemmy.world/post/29222558 The original transphobic Comment from Nutomic: https://lemmy.world/post/18236068

    "If you don't support Russia then you just don't understand geopolitics" ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/27352415

    "Don't worry guys, the Uyghur Genocide was REALLY just birth control! ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/30580167

    "See! nobody died IN Tiananmen Square, just AROUND it, so it doesn't count!!" ~ Davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/30673342

    "NK is actually good and anything counter to that is Western propaganda!" ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/31595035

    General negative sentiment to other instances who haven't "seen the way" yet ~davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/27426510

    And so so much documentation on clear heavy handed censorship and bias also on the link. So much I can't even put them all here because this comment would be really long.

    I believe the behavior of its admins (the main admins are Lemmy devs) does harm to the overall growth of the Lemmy-verse and maybe even the Thrediverse (since Lemmy kinda kicked off the Thrediverse) because of its association with the devs of Lemmy and their insistence to use .ml as their personal political platform to spread harmful propaganda

    On the outside, bringing up Lemmy frequently leads to comments like "Lemmy? Isn't that the place with a bunch of tankies?" Or "Tried Lemmy, but found it full of pro Russia crap so I left". The best way forward from that I see is to either widely defederate from .ml like the rest of the Triad, or pressure them to put a fair and unbiased as possible admin team.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (3 children)

    You mean that you influence fediverse and create it according to a certain image, so you manupulate a target group.

    Let fediverse go its own way.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    I believe the behavior of its admins (the main admins are Lemmy devs) does harm to the overall growth of the Lemmy-verse and maybe even the Thrediverse (since Lemmy kinda kicked off the Thrediverse) because of its association with the devs of Lemmy and their insistence to use .ml as their personal political platform to spread harmful propaganda

    Sure, let's let it fall into obscurity and die like voat lmao

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