Pete Hegseth orders Navy to strip name of gay rights icon Harvey Milk from ship in time for Pride Month

Fascist culture

Not just Harvey Milk. Several other names are on there, like Harriet fucking Tubman.

Harriet Tubman was more of a warrior than he could ever be.

Hegseth is a news anchor who literally commisioned his personal lawyer as a Navy Officer. He wouldn't know what a warrior looked like if one punched him in the face for being a christofascist fuck. He wrote a book called American Crusade and is ripping down Harvey Milk's name specifically during Pride Month, quote, "on purpose."

Remember, everyone. It was never about transgender athletes, it was never going to stop with oppressing transgender people, it was always complete and utter bigotry and fascism all the way down.

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.

These people wouldn't know what warrior culture is if it came in and punched them in the face. Ancient Greeks hoplites were gay as shit and they were some of the finest warriors in the world.

Homosexuality in the militaries of ancient Greece was a significant aspect across the ancient Greek city-states, ranging from being a core part of military life to being an accepted practice of some individual soldiers. It was regarded as contributing to morale. Although the primary example is the Sacred Band of Thebes, a unit said to have been formed of same-sex couples, the Spartan tradition of military heroism has also been explained in light of strong emotional bonds resulting from homosexual relationships. Various ancient Greek sources record incidents of courage in battle and interpret them as motivated by homoerotic bonds.

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

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.

That's just fucking petty.

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

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

Renaming a ship is really bad luck, IIRC. And sailors are hilariously superstitious. So if they rename it after some conservative anti-gay asshat (narrator: they will) that the ship is going to be the most despised ship in the fleet.

Fuck these d bags

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.

You HAVE the 2A

Why aren't they saying whose name is going in its place?

"Warrior culture - it's turned out so well for the Russian military, let's do it to ours!"

I know it's dumb, and it's not the point, and fascists don't care what they're saying as long as they get their way but part of me still needs to answer this

liking other men doesn't impact your ability to do violence. Gay people can also be violent. You know that right, you stupid piece of fascist shit?

They seem to be spending a whole lot of energy on stuff that really isn't practically important

“Warrior culture” on the fuel tanker crewed mainly by civilians

What a bunch of bullshit.

Loser culture.