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[–] 52 points 8 months ago (1 child)

Every public figure who uses the term "Gulf of America" should be taken out to the exact center of it and left there in a life boat.

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    [–] 42 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    ... Why? It's a way more accurate name.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Still a laughable (if it wasn't for reality) endeavor. It should be dismantled, not renamed.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Doesn’t calling it the Department of War make it easier to defund and eventually dismantle, though?

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    Because it was created by an act of congress and renamed twice by acts of Congress after ww2.

    If the Republicans want to rename DoD they could have put it in their "big beautiful bill", but they didn't. So it's still DoD and should be referred to as such.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    The only exception is when juxtaposing those titles with the administration's claims that this is not a war.

    "Secretary of War Pete Kegsbreath, head of the Department of War, claims that he is not waging war by deploying weapons of war against Iran."

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago* (4 children)

    Absolutely! They should rename it something like the "Ministry of Peace", so it sounds softer. I don't like negative and violent connotations. It scares me.

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    The "Department of War" was changed to the "National Military Establishment" by the National Security Act of 1947, and then to "Department of Defense" by the Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1958.

    Absent an act of Congress changing its name again, the official and legal name is still "Department of Defense". Journalists accepting the new nickname uncritically are endorsing an unconstitutional power grab, and should be ridiculed and shamed for doing so.

    It's not like Republicans don't have majorities in both houses of Congress sufficient to change the name, or even that congressional dems would waste their political energy opposing the vain renaming of a post-WW2 agency.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago

    Republicans like “Noooo don’t deadname my special thing! Nooooo!!”

    The anti-pronoun party once again fully understanding the concepts and yet showing us once again that the point is the cruelty, not consistency.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago

    Just wait until Trump renames the USA to the Kingdom of Trump America, and the New York Times and CNN immediately comply as if it had always been so.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    But a war-grade fart to remain consistent

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago

    Hmm. If only we could come up with a select number of words to measure against to determine which major media outlets are propping up fascism with their choice of language and rhetoric. On the other hand i feel like its probably just all of them.

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago (5 children)
  • [–] -2 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    No. At least pretending to be good prevented these latest kind of wars

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Did it really??? We had lots of these type of wars before. They'd just sell us something about women's rights and that we'd be welcomed as liberators instead.

    I feel better about a country that feels the need to sell it's people on wars under this premise, but it didn't matter to the people getting bombed. I'm not an accelerationist, but it might even be better this way since the American people aren't buying the rationales for this one.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    Can't fight for the foreign rights of women while you disenfranchise your own women at home? I guess that would take logic to figure out so they can probably get away with it to their base, but the rest of the world sees right through you.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    There were women that got to grow up with rights in Afganistan. People worked and fought to make that because that was a justification (one of) for that war. Now we dont even have that. Just the bombs and naked greed

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (7 children)
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  • [–] -4 points 8 months ago*

    Yes, the state is dumb. Titles are dumb. Social hierarchy is dumb. Capitalism is dumb. Etc.

    TBH I'm not feeling good about all of this ableism. Typical lib meme - pushing for meaningless reformism while throwing the marginalized under a bus.

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