Didn't Hegseth just proclaim no weirdos, no beardos & no fatties?
this post was submitted on 30 Sep 2026
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Newt Gingrich is still alive?!?
Elon Musk hasn't drowned in a hot tub?
On all that ketamine it's a roll of the dice every day.
The single most terrifying thing about this, to me, is how few people seem to know what Palmer Luckey’s company Anduril does. They are building autonomous kill bots.
The fucking “let’s build skynet” guy is being invited to US military leadership and his name is dropped from the headline and mentioned in barely 2% of replies.
Oh gee, what could go wrong putting a foreign born white supremacist technocrat in a lead position of our military with full access to its systems so he can integrate an AI system no one understands or knows how to defend against or extract should we want to do so at some point.
But he saved so much money with DOGE and nothing bad happened there!
/s
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Hegseth: "no weirdos"
Not even consistent with his own bullshit.
Elon the immigrant? Strange move.
I don't like who he picked but one thing is for sure...he really needs the help!
It's just Elon telling the DoW how many more of Elon's products they need. While he maintains the ability to disable all of them on a whim.
You mean the department of defense. Its gulf of mexico too and lake ontario while we're at it 🙄 Stop indulging the moron please.
I work in defense. People are calling it the Department of War, and there is historical context for it. It actually strikes me as less Orwellian and more honest about the types of assholes we are.
I agree that Trump can't singlehandedly rename international bodies of water, but I just don't give a fuck about the executive renaming parts of the executive branch.
I think you mean you work in war (/s but also not really)
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We’re fucking doomed.
If you're American, consider that the rest of the world has been reading comments like this daily for years.
Is that the big plan? Every day, new BS, "we're cooked chat". Repeat.
Begging Americans to decide now what is too far and put it on the wall or something. As of right now, it sounds like frogs slowly being boiled in the pot.
Yes that is literally his plan. Put out constant bullshit headlines about deranged stuff like this, so you become exhausted and stop paying attention. And then he steals billions from his various crimes.
He’s on tape saying as much.
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Are they just pulling names out of a hat now?
onetime trillionaire Elon Musk
Look I know there are bigger problems we need to work on, but I still have to appreciate the little things
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They're going to use Teslas as a global military spy-net. I would be surprised if they aren't already. Minus the military part. This is just formalizing it.
Not too hard to forecast future conflicts when you're the ones who will initiate them.
WTF.....
Honestly neglecting to mention Palmer Luckey in the title is burying the fucking lede here.
He has had a surveillance/military hardware busines for like ten/fifteen fucking years. Anduril.
Also the name, Meridian, deeply implies and ties back to that idea that they want to control the whole Western hemisphere.
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And the tankies on here will tell you without any sort of fucking irony that Kamala would be just as bad as this fucking bullshit.
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Best Forecasters of Future Conflict.
They know future conflict isn't the war that a foreign nation will come at the military with. The future of warfare is how they will fight the revolutionaries that will inevitably rise against tyranny.
Musk has the ability to deploy surveillance technology anywhere. The "study" is "how do they continue to keep squeezing the iron fist?"
Edit: and by anywhere, I mean ANYWHERE. Motherfucker owns a space agency. Tesla cars rely on video processing of always network connected cameras for their driving assist mechanisms. Starlink puts network connectivity anywhere it currently isn't.
And GUESS who is part of the PayPal mafia? Palantir. But also Yelp and LinkedIn. Those are much less important than Palantir, but Yelp can at least target businesses that don't play along, and LinkedIn can harm people seeking employment.
The dystopia we are in is worse than people can truly grasp.
We live in a fucking cartoon.
Just in time for Elon to screw with the machines and for Newt to dribble saliva on everything
Putting AMERICA First means having an ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT run Our Military!
-LITERALLY Republicans!
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The jokes keep on writing themselves. Man, the onion must really be having a tough time right now.
Hegseth, at 21, getting a rejection letter from his application to The Onion . . . "they'll regret this, I don't care what it takes . . ."
They're going to re-segregate the army probably.
They’re already trying to force out all the black service members by denying them promotions and shitty rules about shaving.
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The fuck does Elmo know about war?
Go get some of those mad lads in Ukraine that are fighting for their very existence and ask them about the future of war. Or fuck it, ask James Cameron, he seems to be more on track with how humans will cease to exist in the future than most people.
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And the clown show downfall of America continues unabated.
I'd try to shame conservatives for what they've done, but those cucks probably think a, checks notes, Nazi and, checks notes, 83 year old retired piece of shit are good choices to help run, checks notes, the most powerful (and dangerous) military on the face of the planet.
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Great move including the guy who disabled Ukrainian drones at the request of Putin. Totally trustworthy and won't backfire in any way.
Honestly expect military experiments like neuralink implants guaranteeing ideologically aligned warriors and complete obedience to the state
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We already tried Elon in politics... No!
The end is coming and no one will stop it. It's so crazy and unbelievable. These monsters have written what they want to do and no one can get rid of them?
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