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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

In other words, he'll purge anyone who doesn't repeat his idiotic yapping.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

The ~~"task force"~~ political office won't be looking for "woke." They'll be looking to identify and remove generals who won't follow illegal orders.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Thats straight out of the communist playbook with political commissars. Think Russia just reinstated that?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

ohh yea that sounds awesome /s

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

He wants to have the military be controlled on his every whim. Expect those that don't comply (and didn't in 2020) to be labed as woke and removed.

I hope by that point if that happens I know our armed men and women have been trained to not miss.....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

They are responsible for protecting and serving the US constitution at all costs....

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

what is this even mean? I don't know what this means. I can't do it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Fascism.

He is pandering to fascists.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He wants to fire the military and replace it with loyalists. Can't coup without a willing military. He gets in, that move will be paramount.

Just another of his blunders, that's a move you wouldn't announce ahead of time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This general has a 3rd cousin who's friends with a gay person. He's woke by association! The whole bloodline is woke! You're fired!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Let me guess. D.O.G.E - Department of General Endorsement.

Grok. Generate an AI picture of Trenchcoat Musk with 50% less gut.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you ask for repeatedly less gut, will it cut a person in half?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Depends if the gut growth can pace the trimming algorithm.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

well, now i'm envisioning an image of a person guzzling something extremely caloric while the algorithm fights the gut increase lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

lucky for us he aint gettin in any of that

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't know why you need a military task force to monitor genitals

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Because there are a lot of people obsessed with other people's genitals who are currently unemployed. Find the job you love.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

"Maybe if I'm an even bigger, sadder bitch, then they'll all tell me how great I am."

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

You mean political officers? Like we see on the tvs in all Russia subs...

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Sooooo... A task force of racists?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Ideologues.. but yeah. Politburo

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Sooooo... The military?

It feels like a promise to turn all billionaires into greedy narcissists.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

How dare you. They'll also be sexist and homophobic. And xenophobic. And aporophobic. And transphobic.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

We need a new word for people with all the phobias. Bigot has lost its oomph, the pizaz, the gravitas.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

You don't have enough of that.

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