9mo ago

Pete Hegseth decried out gay troops in US military as part of Marxist agenda

www.theguardian.com

Summary

Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s embattled nominee for defense secretary, has denounced policies allowing openly gay troops and women in combat roles as part of a “Marxist” agenda undermining military readiness.

In his book The War on Warriors and past interviews, Hegseth criticized the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell” and argued that inclusivity erodes standards.

Accused of misconduct, his views against women in combat and seeing inclusivity as a threat to national security have been closely examined during his confirmation process.

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Isn't it "funny" how LGBT is "degenerate western propaganda" in communist dictatorships and "Marxist propaganda" for capitalistic autocrats.
- we're a threat to power, in general. the current world is built by sexually frustrated angry men. our existence in the open threatens them because if people realize we have always existed, we have always been a threat to power by way of not engaging with the specific torture that keeps the world going, and we still respond to terror enacted against us by calling on people to sing, dance, and be merry, they might do something dangerous: they might start singing, dancing, and being merry
  
  I appreciate the sentiment, but none of that seems based on reality.
  The reason is both those groups mad about LGBTQ are Abrahmic religious extremists.
  And for the Abrhamic religions, it's a numbers game. They want their population to reproduce faster than others because the more followers the more power/wealth the leaders have.
  we have always been a threat to power by way of not engaging with the specific torture that keeps the world going, and we still respond to terror enacted against us by calling on people to sing, dance, and be merry, they might do something dangerous: they might start singing, dancing, and being merry
  Not whatever that was supposed to mean.
  This isnt the town from Dirty Dancing and the danger isn't being told you can't "be merry".
  And that is not going to be an effective way to fight back.
- In fact, all 24 Members of the Chinese Politiburo are men, zero women. Doesn’t sound very communist to me.
  You're confusing economic systems with social policy...
  Which is ironic considering that's what you're upset about others doing in the rest of your comment.
"Under capitalism, there are no gay troops. Under socialism, all troops are gay."
-Karl Marx, probably
- you can drop the “probably”. he says those words exactly on every page of das kapital volume 3, although few people make it that far so it’s not exactly common knowledge
Fellas, is it gay to seize the means of production?
- There is a lot to unpack here. For one, I'm pretty sure every capitalistic state that came from communistic priors falls into it. If so, you have just called Russia gay, as they seized the means of production from the Soviet Union. I think Ukraine falls into the same category there. You know.. I'm starting to think you may have classified the entire world as gay... Which I'm okay with. Just wish we were more jovial
Are the "Marxists" in the room with us right now?
- Looks nervously at .ml ... they are - but they're the cool ones that are just a bit too fond of furry art.
  
  I have a friend who's a communist and I feel so bad for her having to overcome the image tankies have given communists
He's offended by the fact that certain people exist? That is not a good sign.
My oh my. The next 4 years are gonna be a fucking trainwreck.
From a concerned onlooker....Good luck, America!
I like that the awkward word order of both the headline and the first paragraph of the summary makes it sound like Hegseth is the one with a Marxist agenda, deliberately undermining military readiness by denouncing openly gay soldiers 😄
What’s funny is that the gay men community is one of the fittest. Goes to the gym every day crowd.
41.9% of the country is obese.
Who’s gonna fight your wars?
https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/adult-obesity-facts/index.html
- What’s funny is that the gay men community is one of the fittest. Goes to the gym every day crowd.
  Source?
  I'm a gay man and I abhor stereotypes, even positive stereotypes can be bad.
  
  Yeah, saying that all gay men go to the gym every day is akin to saying that black people are all naturally fast runners or that all Asians excel at math..
  Even when it's said with the purest of intentions (which it far from always is), it has a distinct whiff of othering and ignorance..
  
  It’s based on my experience (i.e. out of my ass). So no data to share. Maybe I have selective bias and all the people I hangout with look the same. But in my community it does feel like the gym is a very important third place.
Hilarious, given how stunningly queerphobic certain marxist communities can be..
Ah yes. The Four Long Years of Desperate Insanity Journalism have begun.
Settle in, lefties! Your incessant despising of the Democrats is going to pay off bigly!
- You have that flipped. Lefties vote Democrat for the most part for damage reduction. Democrats despise lefties. See the treatment of Bernie and AOC. The latter of which is currently being blocked by Pelosi for her committed chair bid.
  
  Right, I do despise the Democrats but I still voted Harris for harm reduction. If anything, these 4 long years mentioned above are just going to make me despise Democrats more for fumbling the election so badly
  
  I wish it was flipped. I had plenty of discussions with lefties who informed me in sneering tones that I was a liberal, I was transphobic for supporting Harris blah blah blah. There were no shortage of "not going to vote to suppor this broken system!" garbage, don't even get started on the third party bullshit. Lefties (or, to be clear, accounts representing themselves as "left" for whatever that might mean to them at the moment and presuming they are human) stated many many times in loud arrogant ways they wouldn't support Democrats ever, (even if they eventually said they'd vote Harris) it wasn't anything like support. Just panic.
  Look- the fact of the matter is a lot of people get high and move out of their parents house where they become super libertarian anarchist man and for awhile stop understanding that running things is very boring, and everything takes a shit-ton of money. There are zero answers to any of those problems with anything any "lefty" has promoted prior to the election here, other than being very confident it's not a problem and of course it can be done. Well, since now's their chance, whatta they got? It's been real quiet. And it will remain quiet.
  Here's what's going to happen - three-point-five years of hellish, nightmarish horror, followed immediately by a shit ton of <30d accounts talking shit about the Democrats and declaring the system broken and unsupportable. There's a good solid three-point-five years for these people to jump in and make that change they want to see. Let's see it. Prove me wrong, so called lefties. Please.

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