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[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I mean, that's what it used to be called...

more fitting tbh.

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[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Kind of. The Department of War was the Army only. The Department of Navy was its own department and operated based on a different set of military demands, which was a major reason why the Marines exist.

It wasn't until after World War II when the USA recognized the difficulty in having two separate departments for the military made combined operations hard to implement. You also had the Army maintaining a larger peacetime size and a third branch, the Air Force, being created to optimize for a new theater of war.

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[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Look out neighboring countries, the USA is switching to offense.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

I switch my card to attack mode!

[–] salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 118 points 2 days ago (6 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 78 points 2 days ago (9 children)

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

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[–] crandlecan@mander.xyz 103 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The Peace President ✝️

[–] AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world 36 points 2 days ago (3 children)
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[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Good, that's what it always was.
Less hypocrisy

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[–] Part4@infosec.pub 8 points 1 day ago

Keeps Epstein out of the news.

[–] dnick@sh.itjust.works 75 points 2 days ago

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

[–] DannyMac@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We're not even a quarter of the way through this...

[–] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Are we still assuming he'll leave after his 4 years are up?

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[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 54 points 2 days ago (3 children)

And this fucker wants a Nobel Peace Prize? smh.

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[–] l_isqof@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

Yeah, Epstein would have loved that...

Ministry of peace

[–] blaze@programming.dev 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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

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[–] MourningDove@lemmy.zip 45 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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.”

[–] Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world 36 points 2 days ago

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

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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.

It was known as the department of war until shortly after WW2. This is one change where I appreciate the honesty. Doesn't make him any better.

[–] MetalMachine@feddit.nl 20 points 2 days ago

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

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 46 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (8 children)

Good.

It should be. At any point in time the US is involved in 5-10 wars since Obama.

Calling it the Dept. of War is honest.

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[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 day ago

We are stuck in a time portal to 1929.

[–] arararagi@ani.social 9 points 1 day ago

I mean, that's exactly what it was lol.

[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I voted for Trump because I was TIRED of getting into Wars!

[–] zaft@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sounds like the propaganda worked wonders on you.

I think you missed the sarcasm

[–] SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

If you really did so, I have a question for you: Why did you think you could trust him?

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[–] mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's not even that nice when you abbreviate it:

Before: DOD = Dee Oh Dee. Has a nice flow

Now: DOW = Dee Oh Dup?

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 28 points 2 days 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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[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 6 points 1 day ago

Now rename the IDF to the IOF.

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