Several people have already been relieved of their jobs because of their posts on social media, defense officials told NBC News.
  • Furbag@lemmy.world
    4·
    3 hours ago

    1st Amendment rights, anyone?

    Funny how the right is always the first one to attack enshrined rights as soon as they are used against them.

  • heyWhatsay@slrpnk.netEnglish
    4·
    6 hours ago

    Service members can either defend the construction including freedom of speech, or they can follow the orders of a dictator and his cronies.

  • ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
    14·
    9 hours ago

    Please hunt down and dishonorably discharge a bunch of combat trained individuals ideologically opposed to the current regime. I see no way that could backfire.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    881·
    18 hours ago

    What a great use of government’s time and money.

    Jesus, these people are such assholes. They won’t root out xtian nationalists, but I guess they’ll spend lots of energy on trying to find people that were expressing emotions that are…what’s that phrase I’m thinking of?..oh, yeah: politically incorrect.

    When the Confederates were bitching and moaning about “political correctness”, they were projecting.

    Again.

    They loooooove enforcing political correctness - the actual types of political correctness, not the imagined kinds.

    • xyzzy@lemmy.today
      251·
      18 hours ago

      Why would a Christian Nationalist root out other Christian Nationalists? Hegseth literally is one.

      • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        17 hours ago

        Well, even prior to that. Hell, the Obama admin bent over backwards to cover up the report that showed that right wing extremists were the biggest terrorist threat in the United States.

    • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
      11·
      16 hours ago

      Enough time and effort, when the order to kill American “dissidents” comes in the ones that are left will be more than happy to oblige.

    • Octavio@lemmy.world
      2·
      4 hours ago

      My Grandpa was in the military, and he went to prison for being mean to Nazis.

      Of course that was a German POW prison.

      And by being mean I mean dropping bombs on them from his B-24.

      • darkdemize@sh.itjust.works
        8·
        16 hours ago

        I appreciate the sentiment, but for the record, the Presidential Medal of Freedom is a civilian award, so it’s unlikely that anyone was awarded one for killing Nazis (although I’d be happy to be proven otherwise!). With it being the highest civilian award available, the military equivalent should be the Medal of Honor, which requires gallantry at the risk of one’s own life above and beyond the call of duty.

  • grue@lemmy.world
    26·
    17 hours ago

    Purging the military for ideological reasons actively harms US defense. Pete Hegseth is a traitor.

  • taiyang@lemmy.world
    14·
    16 hours ago

    You know, the real concern shouldn’t be someone looking up our posts, or even who is losing their jobs… thinking about 9/11, we’re really prepping ourselves up for a similar terrorist act. Pissing off everyone, losing people in charge of espionage, wasting time investigating people making fun of Kirk instead of actual threats, and so on.

  • minorkeys@lemmy.world
    23·
    18 hours ago

    This is what one step of a purge looks like. I don’t know which step or how close to an obedient and loyal military that will betray the constitution we are but one step closer.

    • nymnympseudonym@piefed.socialEnglish
      14·
      17 hours ago

      Zeihan’s take is basically that Trump is speedrunning what took Putin and Xi each ~10 years in their own countries.

      He’s created an information bubble around himself and removed anybody competent several layers from the top down, replacing expertise with sycophancy.

      He’s often wrong about details, but I think in this case he’s pretty much nailed it.

      • minorkeys@lemmy.world
        12·
        16 hours ago

        There is no ineffective opposition and a lot of allies, so it’s pretty damn easy. The dems and the left need to get their shit together and take meaningful steps. Not just politically but economically. Trump’s tech and business allies must be weakened alongside his and the GOP. I’m not sure the addiction and psychological dependencies people now have to the technologies his allies control make it possible anymore to do that. People need to vote with their wallets, their engagement and their politics and nobody is even close to organizing that. We still don’t have an effective political opposition, Newsom is the closest we’ve gotten so far.

          • JonEFive@midwest.social
            4·
            15 hours ago

            I think there’s a reason he finally pumped the breaks on that idea. What would one call the act of one state sending their militia into another state against their express refusal in order to enforce laws without being under control of and indeed acting against the state’s elected governor? Man, the words for that activity slip my mind right now.

            And remind me why Texans care that much about what’s going on 2000 miles away from them? Ask them if their state tax dollars should be going toward sending their militia outside their state borders to clean up someone else’s mess.

            Things are getting bad. I keep hoping things will cool off, but it’s just not the way things are headed, is it?

            • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
              2·
              7 hours ago

              Your in a civil war and the left doesn’t know it. Just like project 2025 wanted. And by the time the citizens wake up it well be to late.

        • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
          41·
          16 hours ago

          This is why they’re giving more tax breaks, incentives, and contracts to their co-conspirators. Tesla sales dropped? Looks like Grok needs another $200B to integrate with and optimize air traffic control. If Congress doesn’t turn off the spigot (it won’t be this Congress, that’s assured) and the courts don’t hobble his efforts the only thing left is to stop sending money to DC.