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[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 81 points 1 day ago (16 children)

Lmfao finally something I'm glad he's doing!

The name change was fucking psychological manipulation for the population. You can't argue against defense department spending as easily as you can argue against war department spending.

Bring it on! Make our jobs easier you bumbling brainrotted doughnut dictator.

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[–] blaze@programming.dev 24 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

They missed a great chance to pull directly out of 1984 and call it the Ministry of Peace.

[–] plyth@feddit.org 5 points 16 hours ago

War is Peace

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 14 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

president epstein, trying to do anything to not talk about himself. constant threat of tariffs since hes been doing for a while isnt working, he moved onto the troops in LA strategy, followed by faking "health issues", and insulting people. hes going to keep recycling this until people get tired of it go back to talking about the files.

[–] riskable@programming.dev 220 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Really doubling down on that, "he actually is the antichrist" thing.

[–] shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works 92 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They have think-tanks dedicated to coming up with the worst decisions possible, for real.

[–] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 45 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't doubt it, Trump is a Russian Psyop placed in power with the singular goal of incapacitating the United States by sowing chaos.

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[–] FoolishObserver@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

The Department of War had that victory over the Confederacy, too, right?

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 2 points 13 hours ago

So back to the original name. No more double speak.

This is a good change.

[–] crandlecan@mander.xyz 144 points 1 day ago

Onion?

checks community name...

Sigh...

[–] MetalMachine@feddit.nl 18 points 23 hours ago

I mean, that's definitely a more honest name, how much of what they do is actually "defense" vs just imperialism

[–] salacious_coaster 103 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Might as well. It was originally called that, and the DoD name was always kind of a lame coat of off-white landlord paint.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 71 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Yeah but it's the death of a euphemism. It was good that they had to use a euphemism.

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[–] dnick@sh.itjust.works 69 points 1 day ago

Makes that 'are we the baddies?' a whole lot easier to answer.

[–] crandlecan@mander.xyz 96 points 1 day ago (4 children)

The Peace President ✝️

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[–] MourningDove@lemmy.zip 43 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I seriously think that Trump is the singularity of what should be known as a Stupidity Hole. Seriously. Think about it. Information goes in and never sees light again. No data, written or spoken is ever allowed to leave once absorbed. And once the info reaches the Epstein Radius, It is unable to escape its doom, and is pulled slowly towards the center where it will be broken down into unintelligible sounds that resemble that of grunts and gremlinesque slobbering.

And the more information he consumes the larger his radius. As a child, his stupidity only influenced small things. Like, toys and his hands. As his gelatinous body grew, so too did the mass of his dumb.

Think Florida man just happened? Fuck no! That shit was Mar a Lago. The circumference of dumb envelopes Florida in its entirety and is now what’s known as a “lost cause.”

To be fair, that is a more accurate name for it.

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 51 points 1 day ago (3 children)

And this fucker wants a Nobel Peace Prize? smh.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 2 points 13 hours ago

I mean historically the Nobel Peace Prize is given to war criminals, so he deserves it.

I think you're thinking of the Right Livelihood award. That's for people who do actual Peace things.

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[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Not even the nazis renamed the Wehrmacht to Angriffsmacht

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 14 hours ago (5 children)

It was the Department of War when we fought the Nazis and Imperial Germany, who had a lot more goals in common with Nazis than people realize.

This is a nothingburger and people are embarrassing themselves getting distracted from the Epstein files and all the actual fascism.

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[–] SidTheShuckle@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Well at least it isnt dogwhistled any longer :/

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[–] TuffNutzes@lemmy.world 10 points 22 hours ago

That's great. Thanks. I hate it. Now release the Epstein files.

[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 day ago

The should make the treasury dept the dept of making rich cunts richer

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 day ago (4 children)

This is so sad

Also, I think the entire world may need to prepare themselves for invasion.

I seriously hope that Europe and Canada are preparing because this shit stain will start playing the land grab game soon

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[–] axx@slrpnk.net 5 points 20 hours ago

The president of peace and all that.

We all agree this is just distraction and the arbitrary nonsense is really the point: "we make up what is true" is what they are trying to show.

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