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’

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

  • frezik@midwest.social
    56·
    6 months ago

    We don’t want a warrior culture. That’s dumb fashy shit. We want a culture where every time soldiers are sent to war, it’s seen as a failure of leadership that it got to this point.

    • Alloi@lemmy.world
      25·
      6 months ago

      literally one of the biggest components of sun tzus art of war is exactly that.

      “the supreme art of war is to subdue your enemy without fighting”

      essentially, if you have an enemy, and can work things out democratically, or in other non violent ways, then you win. if you cannot do that, you have failed, and have to wage a traditional war, which is costly to both sides. and thus should be avoided.

      • nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca
        6·
        6 months ago

        Asimov also had this concept baked into the foundation series. “Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent”.

  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
    37·
    6 months ago

    Too bad his name wasn’t Harvey Whiskey. There’d be no shot of having it renamed by Pete in that case.

  • andyburke@fedia.io
    25·
    6 months ago

    This dude is hopelessly fucking stupid.

    The very nature of warfare is changing at an unbelievable rate (supply chain attacks, drones manufactured in theater, just to name a couple) and this guy is fucking obsessed with transgender and gay people.

    If you’re conservative and you voted for these guys, and you give any kind of shit about America, you need to start yelling at your reps about this bullshit to get someone with at least some baseline fucking competency in there.

    I didn’t vote for this bullshit. My city didn’t. My state didn’t. Y’all in the red states need to step up.

  • klu9@lemmy.caEnglish
    5·
    6 months ago

    “Warrior culture - it’s turned out so well for the Russian military, let’s do it to ours!”

  • Optional@lemmy.world
    13·
    6 months ago

    The thing is, Drinky Pete, we can’t go back to live in the 1950s. We already don’t live there because of the whole forward-motion thing of time, and so going back isn’t going to work.

    So maybe work a little harder to drink yourself to death.

  • Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world
    282·
    6 months ago

    America is a fascist, racist, homophobic, bully, anti-intelligence culture.

    Sacrifice your neighbours at the altar of prosperity in pursuit of the holy me.

    • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
      8·
      6 months ago

      Because they aren’t announcing it until june 13.

      The renaming of the ship was set to become public on June 13, the memo said. While a new name for the Milk has not been announced, the memo said Hegseth and Phelan are set to make the announcement aboard the oldest commissioned ship in the Navy, the USS Constitution.

      • dunidane@lemmy.sdf.org
        4·
        6 months ago

        Sad to see the constitution used to spread such hate. But I guess her namesake has gotten the same treatment forever.

              • dunidane@lemmy.sdf.org
                1·
                6 months ago

                That was her first duties but when the original 6 frigates were built the British were the enemy on everyone’s mind. Thats why they were so heavy gunned for frigates of their day. They could only budget for 6 and knew they would have to duke it out with the Royal Navy.

      • unmagical@lemmy.ml
        15·
        6 months ago

        Hmmmm.

        That’s the day before POTUS’s birthday. Trump would love a big beautiful boat named after him as a birthday gift bribe to not fire Hegseth for royally fucking up.

    • JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca
      1·
      6 months ago

      Yea but I also have a job, and a wife and dog that would suffer if I martyred myself, even if I only wound up in prison. I think a lot of people look at the situation and see the same hopelessness, and can only hope for it not to get worse, because chances are if we do nothing, we won’t lose everything, but not the same if we do choose to do something.

      “First they came for the…”

      I agree, but I don’t have a better answer. I empathize like hell with my queer friends, I understand the fear, but what am I going to accomplish alone with a rifle and how likely is it that a legitimate militia could be established before being wiped out, and how would it even be organized?

      I think it has to start with the military. I think if a large enough chunk of soldiers and materiel defected, enough for a fighting chance, that civilians would join in droves. But I don’t really know, that’s just what I’ve come to think.

      • FreakinSteve@lemmy.world
        1·
        6 months ago

        Dont take on an army Hunt the MAGA pastor, the christofascist YT host, the local TikToc fascist influencer. Know where all the cops live. The US military is too big for lone wolves and can’t do anything about guerillas.