Apparently it really is the case that anyone who isn’t white is somehow unqualified.
and you can see why Navajo people are pissed all the time, i had one asa stem prof, and he was generally always angry, especially towards the USA, and that anger often transfer to his students, lashing out them from time to time. he has a distrust of people potentially “Stealing his reputation and work”.
Let’s face it folks - those Navajo code talkers took jobs from hard-working Americans. It’s very un-American to promote people just because they couldn’t speak English. Now that the websites have been scrubbed the healing can begin. God Bless Trump and all hail America!
I hate how even the most “neutral” articles about the heinous shit being done to the US government right now still manage to have a headline that makes it sound like it’s the outrage that’s the issue and not the active attempts by government officials to erase any trace of non-white American history
“Blast” in an article title is a pretty good indicator that it’s just bait for people who are already outraged about something.
Like, yeah, this shit disgusts me, but I doubt someone “blasting” Trump is gonna do anything about it.
“Blast” can mean anything from a comdenatory final statement before someone imposes the maximum allowable sentence by law, to an anonymous poster on any social media site saying “I don’t like that”.
Bullshit phrase
I suspect that DEI is going to be one of the reasons why Dogey America would lose a civil war. Gay furry hackers DEI vs Hegseth DUI, there is no question about who has passion and competence. The only thing that Hegseth loves or knows is the bottle.
The one thing that might still save us is their virtuosic incompetence. Not just how stupid theyvare, but the fact that they’ve ejected ANYONE with competence, and replaced them with loyalists, no matter how stupid they are, or how terrible they are at their jobs.
But they’re stupider than that. The MAGA Nazis have given the gift of competence to their opposition. Now, all the American leadership with competence, intelligence, is now on the side of their enemy.
In addition, there are still many thousands of people still working in government who hate what is happening to them, their agencies, and their colleagues, and will be ripe and willing targets for espionage, sabotage, information, leaks, etc.
The MAGA Nazi government is surrounded by and filled with enemies and infiltrators, who far outnumber them.
I’ve been telling my husband, since he won, that he’s been given a near perfect opportunity for a fascist takeover (his horrendous first term whitewashed, more popularity than ever, more or less unchecked power in the current system) and he’s basically been pissing it away (though I don’t want to underpresume his capability at failing upward…).
A smart autocrat would have slowly broken norms while justifying himself by bending current rules; he’s gone straight to crashing the economy and smashing expectations people relied on faster than than anyone can keep track. Those who are in favor are denied plausible deniability that nothing has changed and those who’re hurting so bad they may not’ve cared can’t take hope that he’s making their lives better.
It’s incredible.
MAGA is a party of Socio/Psychpaths, who are mostly incapable of understanding the thoughts and feelings of others.
We know that they could have been wildly successful in realigning America along their philosophical lines, just by taking it slowly, but their sociopathic perspectives don’t see the advantage in that. They have clearly adopted the Nazi Playbook, which includes the Nazi strategy of Blitzkrieg, so they have embraced it as well. The difference is that Nazis didn’t care that the citizens might oppose them, because they were fully prepared from the beginning to ruthlessly eliminate all opposition by any means necessary.
But MAGA is American. Surely Americans wouldn’t take it as far as the original Nazis, would they?
Unless thats been the plan all along, and expanding Gitmo to include a facility to incarcerate 30,000 people seems to confirm that.
Blitzkrieg is not a Nazi strategy Germany had already been fighting WWI like that, or at least tried its hardest to do that, they used the term Bewegungskrieg (manoeuvre warfare) to contrast Stellungskrieg (trench warfare), that’s all there is to it. The German preference for decisive battles over wars of attrition dates back to at least Moltke the Elder, whence also Auftragstaktik (mission command) and “no plan survives first contact with the enemy”.
Then, the Nazis were way more deliberate and careful when taking over state institutions. And yes they did care about popular opinion that’s why they e.g. switched over to nabbing Jews in quiet instead of publicly making a show out of it didn’t play well with the population. Trump with Nazi strategy would be saying “We’ll re-take Cuba, get rid of socialism, and turn it into a beach resort and every American will be able to go to state-sponsored holidays there”. Like this, but bigger.
It’s kinda weird to say this as a German but when I look at other countries’ fascists they’re a clownshow. Nazis of course are also self-destructive, fascism inherently is, but there’s a fierce edge of competency in their madness.
That Signal leak? Under the Nazis, heads would be rolling, they would have no qualms bending actual incompetence into high treason to make an example to enforce discipline.
Yeah; this is exactly what I was trying to get at.
which includes the Nazi strategy of Blitzkrieg
I mean, that was a Nazi war strategy, not how they consolidated power.
The difference is that Nazis didn’t care that the citizens might oppose them, because they were fully prepared from the beginning to ruthlessly eliminate all opposition by any means necessary.
Sure but they absolutely understood that necessitated plausible deniability; every further reach of power had a cover. There’s a reason the suspending of civil liberties only jumped to effect under the cover of the Reichstag fire (and Hitler finally moving to remove Röhm was to appease army and business leaders, because he needed their support) or that Hitler waited until Hindenburg passed before finally assuming complete power.
You make some excellent points, and the Nazis took a few years to get to their very worst policies. The roots of the Final Solution started around 1936, when they first embarked on a program to euthanize mentally and physically handicapped citizens.
Yet the Nazis’ first moves upon taking power happened very quickly, such as the Enabling Act, which consolidated power in Hitler’s hands (HitlerPig actually did the same thing sooner than Hitler did). The Nazis used a blitzkrieg strategy on their own government, before they employed it as a battle strategy, and the MAGANazi’s are doing the same thing.
Sure, the Nazis didn’t do everything, everywhere, all at once, mostly because it all takes time. Today, with the Internet and social media, it can happen a lot faster. HitlerPig is moving fast, but they still have strategies and policies that they will release over time, because even with the Internet, some stuff still takes time. If you want to detain massive numbers of the opposition, you need a place to hold them, so they have to wait until their 30,000 inmate facility in Guantanamo Bay is finished.
The only thing that Hegseth loves or knows is the bottle.
I bet that if the internet existed in the 1930s the Nazi party would have scrubbed their official websites of any heroes who were not 100% aryan.
They did burn books so I would assume scrubbed of anything jewish, modern art and music, “jewish” science (quantum mechanics, relativity, etc)
It would include Hitler’s CO. The guy who recommended he get his medals and called him a brave soldier.
Nono, he’s “one of the good ones”
Nope. He escaped the holocaust by an inch simply because he knew some people in the SS who were mildly sympathetic to him personally. He was exiled from Germany to Belgium and he managed to immigrate to the US just before the Germans invaded.
He passed away in the early 1960s in San Diego. He was one of the fortunate ones. Being Hitler’s CO didn’t do him any favors.
It sounds like it did do him favors. He wasn’t just fortunate, his bootlicking is what allowed him to survive in exile and immigrate to the US.
I read his wiki. There wasn’t much bootlicking there. He was stripped of his citizenship right away along with everyone else and was harassed like all Jews were at the time. I don’t think Hitler gave a flying fuck about his old CO. It wasn’t like his family doctor who did his best to save Hitler’s mother (for free I might add) whom Hitler did personally intervene and allow to immigrate to the US.
He’s such a racist ass.
Code Talkers are actual legends. Far beyond shameful to do this.
This is infuriatingly disrespectful… just fucking sickening.
They already scrubbed Ira Hayes.
What the fuck are they gonna do next, rename every Army helicopter?
They are all either officially named, or given an… official-unofficial name, after native tribes or chiefs as a sign of respect for their determination, tenacity and ferocity in combat.
Blackhawk.
Chinook.
Kiowa.
Little Bird.
Shawnee.
Choctaw.
Cheyenne.
… and the Commanche and Arapaho, though those never went into full scale production/adoption.
The Huey is actually named the Iroquois, it’s just that its original designation of UH-1 got … nickname-ized and became more prevalent.
…
Oh my fucking god.
https://www.jbsa.mil/News/News/Article/2404797/why-do-army-helicopters-have-native-american-names/
This was the page that described what I am talking about with helicopter naming conventions.
… they literally just affixed ‘dei’ to the page’s name, pointed the old page to redirect to this dei- affixed page, and are then manually refusing to serve anything with dei- affixed to it.
… anger noises …
If you wanna see a full list well I guess now you gotta go to wikipedia because Trump and Elon are racist fuck sticks.
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._military_equipment_named_for_Native_Americana
Maybe the fucking military should fucking say/do something? I dunno just a thought.
The military is supposed to be apolitical and not get involved. They’re not elected, so they don’t attempt to shift public policy… CONGRESS is supposed to advocate for things like this.
Well yes supposedly. But they have also sworn to protect the countries from enemies abroad and within.
From an outsiders perspective: you already have both with the latter leading the government
Well, no, they protect the “The Constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic” and shortly thereafter “and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice.”
So, by that logic, ‘speaking out’ is explicitly against the same oath. Unless of course it’s an unlawful order but that’s only against the Geneva Convention. Good luck getting some protection there when you decide not to gas the migrants.
Protection? If you’re still only at the stage where you resist within legal grounds then the US is really done for
They’re complicit. They love this. Apparently our military is indescribably racist to its core and loves fascism.
We are losing so much more than we realize this very moment. This is the true moment, not the election, when we decide if we want to move forward to a world that celebrates our differences, or one that imprisons us because of them.
Chipmunk is technically an English word now. San Diego is considered a “white name and state” this is the cultural appropriation ppl where worried about. The white washing of other cultures to claim as they’re own.
The jbsa page you linked is now dead.
If they could feel shame they would be deeply upset by this
They’re nothing in the eyes of Bigly Chief Bone Spurs
So making America great again clearly means a return to the era of rampant racism (did that ever really go away?). And sexism. And ableism. Only this time it’s going to be out in the wide open.
What’s next?
- Child labor?
- Slavery?
- Debtors’ prisons?
- Mental Institutions?
- Orphans for “deformed” children?
- Trail of Tears 2? (probably why he wants to annex Greenland and/or Canada)
This is gets more depressing as fuck every day.
Florida is on it already.
Florida considers bill to roll back child labor laws to fill jobs once held by undocumented migrants
They want minors to work night shifts and encourage people to home school their kids, so they can work more! Yay, progress.
Edit: Oh and they want to pay them below minimum wage!
Florida has been facing a steep shortage of workers. According to figures from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, there are about 53 available workers for every 100 open jobs in the state.
And yet people can still apply and get no response back for these supposed jobs?
It’s because they want things like decent wages and not be slaves.
Edit: Oh and they want to pay them below minimum wage!
Well obviously. Leave it to Republicans to encourage pushing children into the workforce to fill the gaps Republicans created, but then also insist that because children are poor workers they should be paid less.
All those thimgs, and more, are on the agenda.
Your “Trail of Tears 2” reference? Consider this:
America has the highest incarceration rate in the world. The average maximum security prison holds about 800-1200 people. The largest prison, in Angola, LA, holds about 8300, more than 7x larger than average.
Now the MAGA Nazis are building a facility in Guantanamo Bay, CUBA, that will house 30,000 people, which is almost 4x larger than Angola, which is already 7x larger than average.
Even the Torture Prison in El Salvador is smaller, at 20,000. The MAGA Nazis want to build the biggest nastiest prison in the Western Hemisphere on a black site in a hostile foreign nation, far from the prying eyes of the media or the courts.
Who do the MAGA Nazis plan on putting in a facility that large? They have already established that anyone who is designated a Terrorist can be detained without Due Process - no lawyer, no judge, no court appearances, no trial. You just get sent to anywhere in the world they feel like sending you.
And now they are saying that anyone who protests Tesla is a Terrorist. In the future, anyone who protests anything will be a terrorist. If you vocally oppose giant corporations, you are a Terrorist. If you support a boycott, you are a Terrorist. Write a critical post on social media, wear a t-shirt, demand your right to vote, defend yourself against MAGA Marauders, etc, and you will be designated a Terrorist. Even just living a life that they think is counter to their concept of an ideal society - gay, Liberal, non-Christian, educated, self-employed, etc. will eventually be given the Terrorist designation. Even just registering as anything but a Republican will get you designated as a Terrorist. Not that it matters, there won’t be any elections anyway.
In the future, they won’t care about crime, unless it is directed at the wealthy. Their primary law enforcement efforts will be against the 70% of Americans they will designate as Terrorists.
He doesn’t care about America, simple as that. He is a Russian asset that is dismantling the Government, he is selling you all out whilst distracting you all with news like this.
The USA is dead.
The goal is not to privatize America it’s to destroy it Care of Russia and China. They winning.
So this is a Pinky and the Brain situation only very real and very terrifying
There is literally no way to define this anti-DEI craze except saying “anyone who wasn’t white and male never helped with anything”. There isn’t even a veneer on it. It’s pure racism, sexism… probably many other isms.
Fascisms
Priapisms
Apparently it really is the case that anyone who isn’t white is somehow unqualified.
I mean DEI literally exists to remedy the problem of institutional white supremacy (amongst other related issues).
When someone is against DEI, that leaves the objective conclusion they’re either ignorant, and will change their mind when presented with reality, or they’re pro-white-supremacy—i.e. a Neo-Nazi fascist, with zero room for leeway.
The fight for equality is always the same no matter what new labels the fuckos put on their current theft of freedom.
Unfortunately, DEI also gave the white supremacists the perfect cover story for pushing white supremacism. Conservatives love their boogeymen and code worded hate speech, the concept of being “anti-DEI” provided the perfect cover for them that the corporate media can swallow without challenging.
Send him and the rest of his MAGA fans into war for a while…
Pete Hegeseth has an iron cross on his chest. That should Tell you everything you need to know.
It’s actually a Jerusalem cross, which is a separate thing but… equally suspect in this context. It’s a symbol of the crusaders, so it goes right along with his “deus vult” one
Well, we all know the Crusaders did nothing but spread kindness, friendship, and joy throughout the world, so it’s a good thing that he has that. Right?
…Right?
He is simply an avid Crusader Kings fan, there is nothing to worry about
Actually I think it might be worse if he was the kind of CK fan that would get “deus vult” tattooed on himself
Erdoğan is another fascistic fuckhead, so I guess we probably won’t have “remove kebab” as state policy at least.
Exactly. Though crusades have been broken on launch basically every time, so it’s possible he’s just trying to be transparent about his war planning capabilities.
Weird that I only ever hear about “Jerusalem crosses” from people trying not to look like neo-Nazis. Huh. Guess it’s like the apparently very well-known “Roman salute.”
I can’t imagine you have much daily contact with the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem of th Catholic Church, but they use it. National flag of Georgia too
The Jerusalem cross has actual historical backing, such as coins from 1200s Jerusalem, unlike the Roman salute which was just invented by a French painter
But of course, it’s obvious that Hegseth has it because of the association with the Crusades, not the Catholics of modern day Jerusalem or the country in the Caucasus. Anyone that genuinely wants to depict themselves as a crusader today is probably a white supremacist
Yup. Jesus cross was used in burnings. Symbols change and how ppl use them changes with them.
Where to place gifts for him?
It’s crazy how DEI didn’t even exist then yet his base will agree that these types of move are ok. The DOD excuse is just going to be “we used AI”. That still has nothing to do with the fact that you’re erasing things that have nothing to do with DEI drop the A
Not according to my neighbor, Lincoln started DEI according to him.
Humanity is maybe just too stupid to create a sustainable society. Maybe we deserve extinction.
Most pre-Columbian societies in the America’s were sustainable.
Then I guess I should have said “modern”
The only blasting I want to hear about him is if it involves fast moving projectiles.
Preferably if he himself is the projectile. “Out of a cannon, into the sun” style.
to shreds, you say?
We got so close…
Veterans tend to vote republican. I’m guessing the numbers would be about the same for active members. Says a lot about our military doesn’t it? They approve of this.
Not only that, but after all of the insulting shit Trump has said about them. They should be ashamed.
Veterans tend to vote republican. I’m guessing the numbers would be about the same for active members.
No, I don’t think so.
I think it’s worth noting that “veterans” as a population skew heavily towards old white men. If you weight for age, gender, and race, does that veteran population support Republicans at higher rates than non-veterans of similar demographic profiles?
Here’s a 2023 Pew profile of veteran demographics that shows that:
- 11% were women, and 89% were men.
- 74% were non-Hispanic white.
- 28% were under 50 years old, 36% were between 50-69, and 37% were over 70.
I couldn’t find active duty polling for 2024, but the active duty vote leaned Biden in 2020.
I suspect if people actually broke out veteran preferences by age, gender, and race, you’d see that almost all of the veteran support for Republicans can be explained by their other demographics, not really anything special about being a veteran.
Time for a covariance matrix!
Yeah I would love to see 2024 polling for active military, but I couldn’t find any either.
Probably didn’t get their mail in votes counted, even if FVAP did their job and got them everything.
I’ve spoken to vets about trump calling them ‘suckers and losers’, they don’t care and still support him. It’s sad and disappointing to say the least.
Ugh, I hate to say it but if they still support him after that then maybe he’s right?
Quad erad demonstrantum
Wait until veterans learn that DOGE is planning to cut their pension and disability benefits. Their current plan is to only let you get one or the other, but not both.
