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[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 67 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Lmao Space Force is so cringe.

It's cute that capitalism thinks it's going to be able to achieve any kind of force in space. Um, no buddy, you're not getting there with your piss-leaking shuttles made by private companies that prioritize cutting corners in a field that has zero room for doing shit half-assed.

Literal child brains.

[–] Tachanka@hexbear.net 38 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Amerikkka can't even build 737s anymore, let alone do better at space travel

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 28 points 10 months ago

A instant-open moonroof in a spacecraft would seem to be a bit problematic.

[–] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] lorty@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Just a 3 month old 737 max, nothing to worry about.

[–] polskilumalo@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 10 months ago

Awwww his first tooth fell out, what a cutie 🥰

Apart from being a pointless waste of money suggested by Trump as a way to look cool, they fucked up so fucking hard by not giving them naval ranks. wtf have you guys never read any sci fi

[–] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 11 points 10 months ago

The only people to actually deploy weapons (as opposed to gound lanched missiles) in space were the soviets with the artillery piece they put on one of the Salyut stations.

[–] ULS@lemmy.ml 50 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)
[–] voight@hexbear.net 34 points 10 months ago
[–] LeZero@hexbear.net 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It was a random civilian who was killed by a cop and PMC, not a troop or cop.

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 9 points 10 months ago

Thats fucking hilarious hahaha

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[–] booty@hexbear.net 36 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

Imagine telling someone you're a member of the US Space Force. Like every other branch of the US military at least has some sort of, like, cool propaganda you can point to. Look, cool airplanes, look cool car, look how good we are at guns. If you're in the Space Force surely you just get laughed out of the room even by libs? Like surely you gotta hide that shit

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 38 points 10 months ago (4 children)

These dorks showing up to their desk jobs in frumpy space nazi cosplay lmao

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

They almost copied this uniform from the Honorverse, how they could even be this cringe and not combust like their shuttles?

EDIT: It's actually much worse, RMN from Honorverse at least wear normal looking berets, but look at this fucking cap here

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 24 points 10 months ago

That hat is atrocious.

"Let's paste the logo on it a dozen times and put farting clouds on the brim" -Some army guy bozo

[–] supafuzz@hexbear.net 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Just an all time nadir of military fashion design

[–] nohaybanda@hexbear.net 4 points 10 months ago

Quantum tunnelled straight into the Negaverse

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Hells yeah we're the Empire baby! tacticool

lathe-of-heaven

The space force will have a floating moon like commands that will not only patroll other nations space buisness, but shoot nukes / Rods from God at any city not in the good graces of the Empire.

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago

Lmao they still gotta wear a fucking necktie. Absolute losers.

[–] D61@hexbear.net 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Goes to the local troop bar

Gets asked what branch they're in

They reply "US SF"

Look of surprise at the bar "Oh! You don't look like the Delta Force type"

They respond "Oh... oh no. United States Space Force, not Special Forces. But hey, what's more special that space, huh?"

They're laughed out of the bar

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Looks like the Coast Guard no longer has to worry about being the punching bag

[–] 420stalin69@hexbear.net 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Literally the most useful part of the military. At least they help people on occasion.

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You could say that about any branch of the military. Army's got a corps of engineers for disaster relief when theyre not trying catch airtime with their equipment, navy and coast guard can do rescue at sea or whatever puddle pirates do, marines can stay on navy boats, keep to themselves, and not interact with any local population, and the chairforce has PJs to rescue rich dipshits off of mountains.

[–] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They're the equivalent of the Soviet Air Defence/Missile force and having your hand on the doomsday key is cool, but no they have to lean into being fucking nerds.

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure the Air Force already does that. They just took an existing department within an existing branch and advertise it as a new branch when it's just a subsidiary lol

[–] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The Soviets/Russians have integrated/disintegrated it with the air force several times because like you said it's a bit lame sounding, but there is something to grouping Space, Strategic Missile Strike/Defense, and your HAAD/ASAT assets together.

[–] chungusamonugs@hexbear.net 31 points 10 months ago

Remember everyone laughing at trump after this and now it's just a part of the military? Absolutely nobody committed. The talking heads and PMC just used it as a jab, supposedly recognizing it was ridiculous, then lined right up behind it.

[–] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 30 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Looks like an ad for a video game. That's deliberate, isn't it? They're hoping to recruit kids for this by connecting it to Starfield or something like they did with Call Of Duty before this.

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yes. They've been working with Microsoft to create a new generation HUD/night vision goggle. One of the commanders explicitly said that the new generation of children are used to playing video games that give them a lot of information about their environment and equipment, so the military's modern equipment need to have that available in order to ensure a smooth transition from civilian to soldier.

[–] makotech222@hexbear.net 14 points 10 months ago

Fighting wars in 2040:

[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

@UlyssesT@hexbear.net pls come back they made star citizen a real thing

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[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago

The rest of the ad was just like people and stuff so not really applicable to this ad from what I recall.

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Following the end of the Trump administration and the Biden administration's announcement that they were not reevaluating its establishment, less critical and more analytical coverage of the Space Force has arisen. High-ranking military officers and commentators interviewed by Politico in a February 2021 article agreed that President Trump's influence and image were in part the cause for the negative reception of the Space Force, and that improving its public image would take time.

Really cool that liberals and the media concluded that the SF was a useless joke because Brumpf Cheeto was in office. Then immediately after he left, they concluded that it was a super duper serious and necessary addition to the military and if you laugh at it then you're a kremlin bot.

[–] 420stalin69@hexbear.net 8 points 10 months ago

What you think they’re just going to cancel those MIC contracts?

[–] material_delinquent@hexbear.net 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

United $naKKKe$ Burger Force

[–] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 18 points 10 months ago

I love how the US government has just followed through on Trump's smooth brain idea like "welp, boss said we're doing it so let's get to it". It's like silicon valley tech bro startup psychosis has seaped into everyone's head. A decade or so from now people will be looking at this as the military equivalent of the Juicero.

[–] star_wraith@hexbear.net 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Biden didn’t undo anything Trump did. Not even the easy stuff like taking Cuba off the state sponsors of terrorism list. It’s been 3 years now, and not once have I heard even a peep from the democrats about undoing even just a part of Trump’s massive tax cut giveaway to corporations and the rich.

Not that anyone here is surprised, though.

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 13 points 10 months ago

Somebody in that admin had one comment that really was the foundational bedrock for everything Biden has done:

Nothing will fundamentally change.

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So is this going to be the branch that politicians' failsons join to fluff up their resume?

[–] nohaybanda@hexbear.net 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That would still be the air force I’d imagine. Gotta kill some brown children if you want that DC cred

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This branch seems like an even safer option compared to that.

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 6 points 10 months ago

Chairforce or navy officer corps is where failsons excel

[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 10 points 10 months ago

it's kinda interesting that both them and CNSA have starfleet emblem type logos. Only one of them deserves it, of course.

[–] Hexbear2@hexbear.net 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Once again, the most evil nation to have ever existed reverses course and instead of making space peaceful, decides to militarize it, breaking the U.N. treaty they had previously signed which called for not weaponizing space.

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Only suprising thing here is the US signing a treaty in the first place lol

[–] Hexbear2@hexbear.net 2 points 10 months ago

It doesn't surprise me, there was a time when Nazis and the Soviet Union were a legitimate existential threat and the US had to act like they were decent, those days are unfortunately, long passed.

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 7 points 10 months ago

All the branches are pushing hard and they're all cringe AF.

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