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Pentagon suspends celebrations that honor women and racial and ethnic minorities

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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 63 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Trillion dollar military with all the latest weapons of war at its disposal, leading all the world's armies and holding the best technologies ..... and it's afraid of holidays.

[–] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 47 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

It's not afraid, it's taking orders from an elected civilian who is the only civilian capable of issuing orders over tenured career military generals with high level college degrees. That elected civilian also happens to be a bigoted piece of spray tanned human shit

[–] BipolarSilence@lemm.ee 17 points 11 months ago

*elected convict FTFY

[–] wiLD0@lemmy.world 28 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

I wouldn’t be surprised if Juneteenth isn’t a federal holiday anymore sometime over the next 4 years.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

4 years? I give it until June

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

It will probably still be a holiday, but will be rebranded to White Power Day or something.

[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

[Defense Intelligence Agency ordered staff to suspend all activities and events at work relating to Holocaust remembrance]

This reminds me of a flashback scene in Man in the High Castle when Top Nazi guy is still in the American army but they have just surrendered and now he is passing out Nazi armbands to his fellow American soldiers.

[–] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm so glad Joe Biden tried his best. /s

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Definitely is Democrats at fault. Just make sure you never once consider blaming the knuckle dragging voters

[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Blaming voters is a loser strategy. Voters suck and they have always sucked. So fucking what? Effective politicians are the ones who overcome voter ignorance and apathy. That's the fucking job.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yes, how dare we blame the mindless sheep, unable to make the most basic observations

[–] knightly@pawb.social 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

They never had the chance, have you seen what passes for education in this country and how much propaganda gets shoved in our faces 24/7?

Kinda hard to justify blaming the voters when public opinion manipulation is a $500 Billion/year business.

[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 6 points 11 months ago

have you seen what passes for education in this country

Yes, brought to you by 50 years of Democratic failure.

Kinda hard to justify blaming the voters

I couldn't care less if blaming voters is justified. What I care about is that blaming voters is absolutely useless and even counterproductive. Blaming voters is how we get the "coastal elites" bullshit tied to the Democrats.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

I am a product of the same system and can see the truth

[–] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

Yea, I totally get it. I wrote a thing about that. https://sh.itjust.works/post/31943041/16392222

[–] RangerJosey@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago

The war on Xmas marches on.