• Sulvor [he/him, undecided]
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    1 day ago

    what-the-hell

    In 2004 his unit was called to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, where he served as an infantry platoon leader

    Hegseth volunteered to serve in Baghdad and Samarra, where he held the position of infantry platoon leader

    He reportedly persuaded Trump to pardon three American soldiers accused or convicted of war crimes related to the shooting of non-combatants in Iraq.

  • SoyViking [he/him]
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    1 day ago

    It looks like the next season of America will feature some cartoonishly evil but also extremely comedic characters.

  • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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    1 day ago

    I didn't quite think the Amerikkkan dekline had progressed to the point of having a governmental agency named after a decade-old meme led by a scam artist and having a 4ChaNazi as secretary of defense. lmao.

    Vince McMahon's wife is possibly going to be in Trump's cabinet too.

      • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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        1 day ago

        Real. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/mcmahon-seen-frontrunner-lead-trumps-commerce-department-2024-11-08/

        She already led the Small Business Administration (lol) during Trump's first term.

      • GrumpigPoopBalls [he/him]
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        1 day ago

        she's gonna be my (many times removed) boss until I get deemed redundant by Elon Musk and DOGE/fired/hopefully just survive through the end of my contract

        • Adkml [he/him]
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          1 day ago

          On the other hand if you aren't to concerned with the whole ethics thing you could pribablly send like 6 ai memes of Elon in a cowboy hat to him and end up being your current boss' boss.

    • Des [she/her, they/them]
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      7 hours ago

      every day at work i lift about 3 to 4 thousand lbs over 9 to 11 hours so i just stopped going to the gym, figure getting time and a half to work out is better then paying 100 a mo

      arm-L but i really need to switch up arms more

  • Angel [any]
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    1 day ago

    My Catholic grandfather said that people with tattoos are going to hell.

  • ChaosMaterialist [he/him]
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    1 day ago

    With a dude like this we're definitely gunning for a farce no-fash

    Which country will be our Ethiopia?

    • Crucible [he/him, comrade/them]
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      24 hours ago

      I feel like an invasion of Mexico as a way to 'combat the cartels' has been in the consent manufacturing chute for a few years now

      • Justice@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 day ago

        Canada has been invading the US in the form of the absolute worst war crime loving media figures. David Frum (guilty of enough propaganda to be hanged, legally speaking only of course), Crowder (re-enacted George Floyd's murder among an infinite well of other racist shit, Ted Cruz (Cuban-Canadian... no further comment), and a lot more that I can't will myself into thinking about

      • ChaosMaterialist [he/him]
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        1 day ago
        Too Fallout. We need fresh slop for the Blackshirts.

        Remember to properly dispose of your Blackshirts

        how-compelling pit barbara-pit

    • Bureaucrat [pup/pup's, null/void]
      hexagon
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      1 day ago

      the death stare on him is pretty funny

      Also oh fuck he's from MN

      of course this fucking fascist is from Forest Lake

  • Barabas [he/him]
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    1 day ago

    The crossover between crusade guys and zionists is kind of interesting in a way. You'd think they would aim to make it a christian state again, but maybe that is stage 2 of the plan.

    • Nakoichi [they/them]M
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      1 day ago

      It is actually worse than that, they want all the Jews back in the holy land to fulfill their apocalyptic death cult bible fanfic. After the final battle all the "good ones" will repent and become christian and the rest will be murdered by burger Jesus as all the most burger worshiping "christians" get taken up to heaven where they will have unlimited fountain drinks, McRibs and hooters girls serving them, not unlike their caricature of what they believe about Muslims and the 40 virgins bullshit.

      Just 100% :projection:

      • Barabas [he/him]
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        1 day ago

        He has a Kingdom of Jerusalem tattoo and a load of crusader stuff on him though, which is a different flavour to the other evangelicals at least in my experience. But maybe that is just outside of the US.

        • Maturin [any]
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          1 day ago

          You are giving him too much credit (i.e., assuming he has a well thought-out coherent connection to those symbols instead of the being LIB vibes based history). The original crusaders were Catholics, which Pete is not. The current Crusade is a Protestant Crusade and he sees himself as a Protestant Crusader (notwithstanding the catholic imagery he got permanently etched into his skin). The Protestant crusade is along the lines of what Nakoichi laid out - they conscript Jewish foot soldiers as functionaries within their Protestant theology to crusade the holy land for the protestant end-times which requires "Jewish" control of the land.

          • Barabas [he/him]
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            1 day ago

            My point is that he doesn't have any serious belief in anything that you're describing, just that he is incredibly racist. They also tend to hate jews, only slightly less than muslims. At most they are "culturally christian" in the same sense that Dawkins is now, it is just slightly rebranded white supremacy.

            Trying to see it through scripture at all is already giving him too much credit.

        • Jabril [none/use name]
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          1 day ago

          I think you are correct that if they aren't in the camp mentioned by Nakoichi, they are in the camp of "getting all our enemies together in a single ethnostates makes them easier to conquer"

      • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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        1 day ago

        Weird how you never hear about Adrian Zenz believing in this shit to the point of writing a book about it!

    • SoyViking [he/him]
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      1 day ago

      There ruins a line through history from the crusades to Zionism and the illegal zionist entity has many things in common with the crusades.

  • Justice@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 day ago

    "He's just a fan of Latin! Guys! Can't someone tattoo the Catholic motto used during the crusades on their arm!? CANCEL CULTURE WHAT THE FUCK???"

    But for real, I thought this was a "joke" someone put out? (The guy not his Nazi tats) He's some low level rando from Fox News...?

    • SevenSkalls [he/him]
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      1 day ago

      I can't believe a random Fox News host is our next Secretary of Defense. It's like an onion bit.

      I can't wait for Gavin, the random valet guy who complimented Trump's tie, to be our Secretary of Energy and control all the nuclear stockpile.

      • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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        20 hours ago

        Harding's administration was basically that. Just handing out important government positions to his poker buddies.

      • lapis [fae/faer, comrade/them]
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        1 day ago

        It's like an onion bit.

        has the onion run a headline along the lines of The Onion Shutting Down The Presses Due To Real Life Being Its Own Satire yet?

      • Sulvor [he/him, undecided]
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        1 day ago

        Considering he 'served' as an officer at Guantanamo Bay and in Iraq, I don't think he's just a random Fox guy.

        • elpaso [he/him]
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          5 hours ago

          True, but he only made it to O-4. The most common rank for an officer to retire is O-5. He was likely poor at playing politics, which is something needed for Sec of Defense.

          Considering his ridiculous tattoos, it probably didn't help him at all.

      • Justice@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 day ago

        I appoint myself to be Trump's new "Shit Czar" in charge of reversing all the EPA (or whoever makes those rules) rules/laws/whatever mandating "low flow" faucets and toilets.

        A "problem" that was solved 20 years ago. Easiest job ever. Just pretend I'm still working on it for 4 years then show him a Toto toilet. The Japanese really know how to suck human feces away with minimum amounts of water usage. (No, I'm not paid by Toto... but I'd like to be)

        • SevenSkalls [he/him]
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          1 day ago

          Just head on Fox to make your case and I'm sure you'll get the job!

          And then I'd like to submit my application to be your assistant czar. I could use a low stress job that sucks money from the US budget so it can't be used in Israel or Yemen while I work on my hobbies and interests.

      • elpaso [he/him]
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        1 day ago

        They are going to completely reform the DoE to focus more on nuclear. Elon is going to have his fingers all over it. My job is about to SUCK.

        • Cammy [she/her]
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          15 hours ago

          What's the nuclear equivalent of a lithium battery fire again...?

          this-is-fine

    • PKMKII [none/use name]
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      1 day ago

      This is the one appointment I’m hopeful for because if he can mismanage the armed forces into being even more incompetent than usual, I see that as a win.

      • Justice@lemmygrad.ml
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        24 hours ago

        He's more than likely going to be totally deranged. The only question is how much he relies on rhetoric vs action. Incompetence is a given, but when the secdef position... he can kill a shitload of people. Of course in theory secdef answers to the president, but, they've gone "rogue" before to varying degrees. They hold immense authority at the end of the day and few will question their authority if they just say the president made the order. Genuinely crazy shit, but... not unexpected unfortunately

  • blindbunny@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    I've got dead pets, anime, and comics on me, why's this guy have a bunch of nationalist stuff 🤔

  • Bureaucrat [pup/pup's, null/void]
    hexagon
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    1 day ago

    here are all the reactionary symbols i recognize so far:

    • jerusalem cross, "devs vvlt" and chi-rho: neo-crusadist iconography, with the later two also being associated with opus dei and the fascist regime in spain

    • amerikkka and "we the people": iconography associated with the illegal settler-colonial occupation of northern America

    • emblem with the inscription "Ne Desit Virtus": symbol of the 187th Infantry Regimen of the illegal yankeestani so called "military" (actually just a gang ofremoveds and murderers). responsible for a shitton of war crimes.

    what did i miss?