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I was thinking maybe the American public will start to question why we are spending so much on war. It is an insane budget and the doublespeak of it being for defense helped selling the idea to the public. Maybe he accidentally did something will will help reign in our over spending on war....

In his defense, it's also the name of his only sexual partner.

So, yes and no - It was the "Department of War" for most of the country's existence. Truman changed it in 1947 when doing a massive overhaul of the military and intel parts of the government. Also, just calling "Department of Defense" hasn't prevented us from getting into a whole mess of wars since then.

I do agree that it's a sign of the times in terms of "everything old is new again" and undoing the 20th century, which is the T47/project 2025 stated goal. Sure as shit, we're making incredible progress towards returning to 1860.

Might as well call it what it is. "The Department of Imperialism".

He was also an undercover FBI informant in the Democraric hoax that are the Epstein files.

Issue is, when he dies, the people of Seven Mountain Dominion just can continue their work, full force. Whether that will cause the collapse of the dominionist US is a question, and there's also tge question of all the tech corpos.

This is what happens when you have no personality.

And I’ll be a ten that he’s complained about “vegans always telling everyone about it”.

My first split-second initial reaction was "oh hey they're being honest for once", but that was very swiftly followed by "oh fuck what are they teeing up here, they're not doing this for no reason"

Right now it's an alternate name via executive order. Officially changing the name from Department of Defense to Department of War requires an act of Congress.

In your face about god too,

You mean cirrhosis?

I mean, climate change is probably a more accurate description of the situation. Sure, globally on average the planet is warming alarmingly quickly, but it doesn’t always feel that way on a local scale, so a lot of people had an easy time ignoring it, but it’s almost impossible to deny, wherever you live, that our climate is changing if one is capable of remembering their childhood. Temperature extremes get more extreme each year, storms get more intense, ocean levels rise, ecosystems vanish and change, etc. All of these things are a result of warming and greenhouse gases, but unless you’ve got a hard science background, you probably wouldn’t intuitively link all of these things together, so I can see a compelling argument for a better umbrella term. All that said, though, we all kept ignoring it regardless, so what the fuck do I know.

As for your point about America, though, I 100% agree. “The Department of Defense” has always been a euphemism, the convenient kind that lets you look pretty and get away with murder. What’s concerning to me, though, is that a Euphemism only dies for one of two reasons. Either everybody realizes what the euphemism actually means and it becomes synonymous with the phrase they were trying to avoid, or (and this is the much more common case) it becomes unneeded because they no longer need to varnish the truth; a mask off moment. And generally? The euphemism dies right before things get much, much worse.

All I can hope, as an American, is that we come out the other side of this fucking ashamed. Ashamed of ourselves, our beliefs, our actions, and our countrymen. Maybe then we can actually build a nation worthy of calling great, but I’m not holding my breath.

He's a secretary. Some office somewhere probably.

Iraq still going on, Syria still going on, Ukraine was proxy for an american war thats now shifting more to eu's responsibility. Yemen still goin on, US is still helping ethnically cleanse gaza, murdering random boat operators in the caribbean, plus now the occupied cities of LA and DC (where they now have live rounds but no live fire yet). I know you weren't implying that the US is currently peaceful, but just wanted to take this opportunity for myself to list places currently under attack by the states.

A couple engagements against Mexico and clobbered the absolute hell out of the geriatric of the Spanish Empire at the turn of the century. I would also go so far as to say European powers did essentially nothing against the Empire of Japan during WW2, but the Chinese fought a nasty decade long war against the Japanese with serious technical and military support from the US. The Pacific theater was essentially the US Naval Department (Navy and Marines) vs the Japanese Naval Department while the bulk of both Armies were preoccupied in different theaters.

The Civil War?

I adore your optimism, but sadly I don't share it. There won't be a presidential election in 2028.