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usually takes 20 years of experience to get light colonel but sure, appoint some corporate drones. This is exactly how you destroy a military from within, put in inexperienced people or peoples relatives, or politicians. As is the case with everything Trump does, Putin will be pleased.
Hahahaha holy shit we are so fucked if actual war happens
Hmm…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grayzone#Reporting_and_reception
The Grayzone’s news content is generally considered to be fringe,[16][2][17][18] and the website maintains a pro-Kremlin editorial line,[26][49] centered around an opposition to the foreign policy of the United States and a desire for a multipolar world.[2] The site has been criticized for defending Russia and other authoritarian regimes.[2][20][39][42][50] In Reorienting Hong Kong’s Resistance: Leftism, Decoloniality, and Internationalism, The Grayzone was described as “known for misleading reporting in the service of authoritarian states”.[25] Nerma Jelacic, writing in the Index on Censorship, described The Grayzone as “a Kremlin-connected online outlet that pushes pro-Russian conspiracy theories and genocide denial.”[51] In 2019, The Grayzone had claimed the Commission for International Justice and Accountability, of which Jelacic is a director, collaborated with ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra affiliates.[51]
I’m gonna assume the headline is a lie.
Looks like it is not a lie. I went and checked for other sources because of your Wikipedia link.
Here is reporting on the announcement of this plan: https://www.wsj.com/tech/army-reserve-tech-executives-meta-palantir-796f5360
Here’s another source that confirms the truth of the headline:
Should probably stick to better sources like that in the future. How did you end up on the Gray Zone in the first place?
OP should have posted that instead of this weird fascist 3rd party.
I guess, but it’s literally the first link in the article.
These are SS appointed for political reasons, just 80 years later… same play
The plan is for the military to weaponize AI, data profiling, and social media. That’s where all those execs are from.
As if that stuff hasn’t caused enough damage already.
Aren’t there research science positions in the military that are civilian positions, but also given a rank?
I might be misremembering but I thought that has been a thing for a while.
So they reopened DEI hiring. Got it. I did nazi that coming.
These idiots don’t even know the first thing about military leadership. This is an insult to everyone in uniform who had to work hard to reach this point and they’re going to make a mockery of it.
Dear God, the unimaginable corruption in this administration, and absolutely nobody with tge authority to stop it is even pretending anything matters. America died with my idiot relatives decided this would be better than the uppity lady in a pants suit.
How long before it is mandated that all govt officials can only use the T1 phone?
https://talent.army.mil/direct-commissioning/?hl=en-US
This became a thing in Trump’s first term. Passed Congress hidden in the defense Bill of 2019. Everyone was busy reporting on the bill also banning Huawei products.
It usually takes 20 years to reach this rank. Not only are they skipping basic and fitness, they could at least take the mandatory 4 week new officers course, right? Hah, no.
designed to fuse cutting-edge tech expertise with military innovation.
Read: Install enhanced surveillance, Counterfeit Cognizance (in its current nascent form), and our best enhanced killing capability into easily deploy-able units…
FFS. 🙄 🤦♀️ 🤡 🫏 🖕 💩
Everyone in the military should take note. These assholes did not go through basic. But they have leadership roles.
That’s not what this is about.
It’s about putting these companies under military control. Now they can be ordered to do shit by the fascists.
Wouldn’t have to order them to do anything, they’d gleefully offer to do it first.
All of them want https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment
And every day we get closer to it
That just sounds like fascism done by pretentious techbros. “Dark Enlightenment” is just them trying to make it sound more mysterious than the absolute idiocy that it is.
It’s worse than fascism. It’s dissolving all the world nations into techno-feudalism, its billionaires controlling their own territories as kings. And it’s Peter Thiel’s goal among many others, generally the anarcho-capitalism crowd.
Here’s a visualization
I’ll continue to say this every time that I see it. Feudalism. It’s just feudalism (or maybe neo-feudalism, with “neo” in relation to time period). Nothing about it is new. Nothing about it is really predicated on technology. Feudalism and similar mono/oligargic systems have always used available technology to oppress.
The only thing that they’re doing different is not bothering with “divine right” and being slightly more honest in that they believe having money makes the better. But that’s also been done before. No need to slap “techno” on the front of it to make it seem like it’s a unique situation that’s never been attempted before. They’re just another group of egotistical shitheads who have convinced themselves that they are special, unique, and superior, when they are none of these things. Just like all of the rest of the would-be kings in history.
Only if they want to keep their titles. This probably has more to do with allowing them to issue orders to specific people.
How would the companies themselves if no one else in the company is enlisted? The way I read it was that these goons are now officers in the Army, and have command authority over anyone beneath their rank, but that doesn’t apply to civilians (yet).
Most people that work for a company do what is directed of them by the execs of said company. These execs are under the command of the commander in chief. Entonces, the workers in those companies will probably follow orders of the government given to them through their execs.
I don’t think officers go through basic training anyway, they have officer school instead.
Officer Candidate School is their basic training… One of the reasons I got out instead of crossing over to officer is that I didn’t want to go through basic training again.
Which includes…
Officers 100% go through basic. Sometimes twice.
They still have to go through basic.
And they expect us to have respect for vets 😂
It’s the vets and active who respect trump that absolutely baffle me.
He literally has called soldiers who died in wars losers. How is anyone able to respect them?
They probably do the 'ol, “what he really meant was” trick to convince themselves.
Many people join the service in the hope that they can realize their fantasies of killing people without being held accountable for it. So naturally, there will be plenty of people who support a man who wants to give them that chance.
This is Nazi playbook stuff
These men are Nazis
Our country is infested with Nazis
They want to steal your wealth end your life and rape your women
Act accordingly
Wasn’t it also Fall of Rome playbook too? No, that can’t be right, they would have learnt that lesson.
To be clear a lot of them want to rape the men, too.
Further, you could just say “rape the women” because “your” implies some weird ownership over them.
The “your” thing could also imply that you promised yourselves to each other. “You are mine and I am yours” type of thing.
Then “Rape your loved ones” considering the history of what’s happening is certainly the best choice
They definitely won’t be limiting themselves to women.
Hide your wife, hide your kids, and hide your husband too because they’re raping everybody out there
Men, children. Maybe a particularly promiscuous goat.
Perhaps a curvacious armchair?
