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Pete Hegseth orders Navy to strip name of gay rights icon Harvey Milk from ship in time for Pride Month (www.independent.co.uk)

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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’

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[–] loopedcandle@lemmynsfw.com 21 points 5 days ago

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.