Every single black, brown, and Asian country, and probably Canada too:
this post was submitted on 08 Sep 2025
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We been looking at you like that since G.W.
At least it is accurate. The Americans are a warlike nation founded on a genocide. Orwell wrote extensively on the power of words to change a narrative and the way we feel, it is insidious and very common in the world of politics and business in a way that it is absolutely uncommon in the world of science where only the truth matters. The oil industry convinced us that we ought to soften Global Warming to the more benign Climate Change for no other reason than it makes them look less culpable. Hilarious that trump would choose this thing to tell us the truth. Gotta start someplace I guess.
I mean, climate change is probably a more accurate description of the situation. Sure, globally on average the planet is warming alarmingly quickly, but it doesn’t always feel that way on a local scale, so a lot of people had an easy time ignoring it, but it’s almost impossible to deny, wherever you live, that our climate is changing if one is capable of remembering their childhood. Temperature extremes get more extreme each year, storms get more intense, ocean levels rise, ecosystems vanish and change, etc. All of these things are a result of warming and greenhouse gases, but unless you’ve got a hard science background, you probably wouldn’t intuitively link all of these things together, so I can see a compelling argument for a better umbrella term. All that said, though, we all kept ignoring it regardless, so what the fuck do I know.
As for your point about America, though, I 100% agree. “The Department of Defense” has always been a euphemism, the convenient kind that lets you look pretty and get away with murder. What’s concerning to me, though, is that a Euphemism only dies for one of two reasons. Either everybody realizes what the euphemism actually means and it becomes synonymous with the phrase they were trying to avoid, or (and this is the much more common case) it becomes unneeded because they no longer need to varnish the truth; a mask off moment. And generally? The euphemism dies right before things get much, much worse.
All I can hope, as an American, is that we come out the other side of this fucking ashamed. Ashamed of ourselves, our beliefs, our actions, and our countrymen. Maybe then we can actually build a nation worthy of calling great, but I’m not holding my breath.
Perhaps climate change is a more appropriate description for our lived experience, I'm open to a well reasoned argument. We don't have to go far to see practical examples of the effect of greenhouse gases, with Venus at 500C average surface temperature due to CO2 atmosphere or consider xkcd's temperature timeline with the insanely vertiginous ascent during the last two hundo years. My proposals:
- Spicy Climate Change
- Sport Utility Environment
- Sweaty Ecological Catastrophe
- Gucci Sweats Planet
Forgot what we were talking about. Department of war. Listening to Sarah Paine on YT, clearly there have been and still are many Americans trying to do the right thing but that isn't what grabs the headlines. The political landscape in general is getting ugly. Far right populists are emerging in Europe and these incels have been emboldened by the facist turn in America. Convenient for the billionaire class and their stooges.
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Just Sec of Pestilence, Famine, and Death now.
RFK Jr. has the pestilence thing covered.
So Donald or anyone in his family are going to do their service now then?
Right?
War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength
Secretary of binge drinking
W.orthless A.lcoholic R.apists/Racists
Makes sense to me
Imagine making "I'm the secretary of war of the most well funded military the world has ever known" as your whole personality. Sad, pathetic, get a hobby, get a real job
They got the name plastered all over the place .... now all they need is an actual war
And no one said that it has to be a war on foreign soil either
Iraq still going on, Syria still going on, Ukraine was proxy for an american war thats now shifting more to eu's responsibility. Yemen still goin on, US is still helping ethnically cleanse gaza, murdering random boat operators in the caribbean, plus now the occupied cities of LA and DC (where they now have live rounds but no live fire yet). I know you weren't implying that the US is currently peaceful, but just wanted to take this opportunity for myself to list places currently under attack by the states.
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If Trump does get a peace prize then nothing will mean anything anymore.
Just a reminder that fucking Henry Kissinger got a nobel peace prize.
He must be a true warrior.
He must be a true wario
the thing to do here is to continue referring to it as the DoD. I know that nobody of any consequence will do anything that could be construed as interesting but a person can dream
I think most people who say DoD in real life are doing it for work.
He’s not good at keeping secrets.
To be fair, he’s not in charge of intelligence.