Apparently it really is the case that anyone who isn’t white is somehow unqualified.
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
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.
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!
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
Send him and the rest of his MAGA fans into war for a while…
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.
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.
Time for a covariance matrix!
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.
He’s such a racist ass.
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
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
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
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.
Erdoğan is another fascistic fuckhead, so I guess we probably won’t have “remove kebab” as state policy at least.
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That’s their little buzzword du jour that lets them be racist while blaming something else.
Just like affirmative action was the go-to word from the 90s to the 2010s.
The only blasting I want to hear about him is if it involves fast moving projectiles.
We got so close…
Preferably if he himself is the projectile. “Out of a cannon, into the sun” style.
to shreds, you say?
Code Talkers are actual legends. Far beyond shameful to do this.
They’re nothing in the eyes of Bigly Chief Bone Spurs
If they could feel shame they would be deeply upset by 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
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.
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
So, you would back a military coup at this point?
I mean, I’m not saying it’d be worse but, yeah, the US is well done.
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.
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.
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.
They did burn books so I would assume scrubbed of anything jewish, modern art and music, “jewish” science (quantum mechanics, relativity, etc)
only acceptable diversity hires are criminals, pedos and alcoholics
Well, the white ones, anyway
Pathetic
they had unique special skills therefore dei /s
