Pete Hegseth orders Navy to strip name of gay rights icon Harvey Milk from ship
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Defense secretary’s memo says stripping the name of the Navy veteran is part of an effort to reestablish ‘warrior culture’

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/40120300

Defense secretary’s memo says stripping the name of the Navy veteran is part of an effort to reestablish ‘warrior culture’

  • PorradaVFR@lemmy.world
    54·
    28 days ago

    Hey, remember when he used insecure Signal to communicate highly classified information? Whatever happened with that?

    No, really, why did that story fade?

    • imrighthere@lemmy.caEnglish
      32·
      28 days ago

      Because they’re nazis and waving signs and tacos at them doesn’t make them stop ?

    • floofloof@lemmy.caOP
      8·
      28 days ago

      To clarify: Signal is secure as far as we know, but these fools used a Signal knockoff that is basically a very insecure wrapper around Signal that totally undermines it.

      • anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        5·
        27 days ago

        I was actually surprised they were using it, because it keeps a record of communication (which the government officials are required to keep).

        So it was a weird mix of irresponsible and responsible behavior.

    • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      27 days ago

      No, really, why did that story fade?

      Because Americans have brains roughly the size of hamsters so they can’t fit much else beyond Dancing With The Stars and Real Wives of Whatever in there at any given time.

      Also, we wake up to some new embarrassment from this administration every. single. day. So our timeline is pretty extreme right now.

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    27 days ago

    Remember when dipshit conservative voters thought this admin was going to increase the quality of their lives by addressing the cost of living and corruption and waste in our government?

    Instead, they elected people like themselves; children trapped in adult bodies. So this is what they get. Something that in no way makes their lives easier.

    Hegseth is a waste of oxygen, but the bottom line is the majority of voting Americans are too, and that’s why he’s where he is. Our culture is rotten. Things aren’t going to get better any time soon. America is too stupid for that.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      27 days ago

      Yes, but they are PWNING TEH LIBZ!

      Why can’t you see how that makes everything better?

      Seriously, I was talking to one of the cons I know this weekend and he’s balls-deep in the MAGA Cinematic Universe. This is someone that thinks we were living under tyranny under Obama and under Biden, and now that we have “freedom”, he looks forward to the economy being so much more beautiful (he also idiotically thinks that the economy under Biden - and which was the envy of the world was just terrible - though to be fair, I keep hearing centrists, and quite a few so-called “leftists” say the exact same dopey thing in spite of all the evidence of my eyes).

  • Gates9@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    10·
    27 days ago

    Naming military equipment after citizens who have contributed to the good of democracy reminds us that the military is controlled by the citizens, and reminds us of the values we ostensibly fight for. That’s a good thing.

    • floofloof@lemmy.caOP
      7·
      27 days ago

      The current administration is motivated by greed and spite. It has no interest in doing good things for the country. It considers its business to be mainly hurting people, when it’s not stealing wealth.

    • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world
      6·
      27 days ago

      Harvey Milk isn’t just a citizen though, he’s a military veteran.

      The US regularly names vessels after politicians who are also military vets. Presidents often get something big, like an aircraft carrier named after them, lower level public servants tend to get smaller ships.

      All that is to say, this isn’t just some special case, this is just how we do things. This wasn’t DEI, it was the normal state of affairs. So with that in mind, to go out of your way to change this name is so disrespectful… I have trouble describing it.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    27 days ago

    Oh thank goodness these asshats are doing some performative bullshit to distract from their destruction of so many other things. I am still paying $4 a gallon for gas, but at least I can say that donvict is “owning the libs” or whatever the fuck.