• AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works
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    14 days ago

    Every time I read “secretary of war” I have to laugh. It exudes so much small dick energy! How insecure you have to be to rename the dept of defense to dept of war just so it sounds “tougher”?

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          I know he is an asshole, but I miss Chuck Norris jokes.

          They were never funny, but they were not funny in a simpler time.

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        13 days ago

        Next years official title

        Pete Hegseth - secretary of kickin ass and not being drunk in the hottest whitest no fattys or beardos hemisphere on earth also I didn’t assault any women

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        I get that perspective. However, it is important to know that the department of defense from 2 years ago is not the same as the the department of war today. It has been systematically changed to give the regime more power. It has made defense industries war industries. And it is ready to be deployed against US citizens.

        We need to understand that this change has actually happened.

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      Imagine being so insecure that even when some gives you the biggest dick on the planet, and carte blanche to swing it however you want, you still have to compensate by shouting into a megaphone about how big your dick is.

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      They figured “Ministry of Peace” was too on-the-nose, even for them.

      But war is peace, so…

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    I know there’s a lot of really scary stuff happening with this administration right now, and I really don’t want to seem dismissive of that (its certainly scaring the shit out of me), but honestly, this just seems like Hegseth wanted to ride in the cool plane cos it makes his peepee feel big. Not sure we should read any more into it. If something big was going to go down, it would be Trump on the “doomsday plane”.

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    My guess is there’s a reason this plane is rarely (if ever) seen by the public. Other administrations probably realize that you shouldn’t parade your most important assets around for potential adversaries to study, but oh well, here we are.

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      I believe it’s just heavily shielded to prevent EMP from destroying all the electronic surfaces in it. If I remember correctly, it’s outfitted with a ton of comms equipment that duplicate central systems on the ground, so should they be destroyed, this thing just takes off and continuously refuels and flies to prevent getting destroyed, and it keeps military comms running so they can keep launching nukes or whatever.