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[–] RadioEthiopiate@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 days ago

Department of War Crimes.

[–] red_tomato@lemmy.world 83 points 3 days ago (4 children)

They realized it’s easier to justify war if they pretend it’s an ”act of defense”

[–] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 31 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Literally reinventing the wheel

[–] banazir@lemmy.ml 41 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

It's frankly stunning just how little these people understand basic politics and the systems they are dismantling. They are profoundly stupid and too ignorant to realize just how intellectually ill-equipped they are. They have no understanding of why the structures they are tearing down were set up, and think that political institutions purposely created to serve their interests are hampering them. They repeat age-old mistakes and think themselves geniuses for it. It's almost inconceivable that people this malignantly incurious reach positions of power. But they have, they do, and they will again.

[–] knee@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago

Absolutely correct. All your post, especially the last two sentences. Dunning-Kruger seems to have become infectious.

[–] Sarcasmo220@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago

The reason they are doing that is because the capitalists have painted themselves in a corner. Wealth inequality is growing wider and wider to where it is hard for the working class to continue to ignore. People are upset and need scapegoats. You can only blame immigrants for so much. So they promise to come in and "disrupt" the government's bureaucracy. Of course the real reason to do that is not for the benefit of the working class, it is to benefit Trump and the wealthy that inflate his ego.

But you are right that they have forgotten that people get upset when the trail of corruption leads straight to them instead of being obfuscated in bureaucracy.

[–] Thassodar@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago
[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 days ago

Yeah, that's always why it's been called that.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

we punch you, is special limited operation. you punch back, is war. is very simple

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 days ago

and then when you defend yourself, the world calls it an unprovoked attack. lol

[–] nul42@lemmy.ca 33 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Its the department of Depends®

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

Departement of TheFence

[–] grapefruittrouble@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago

take all my upvotes

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 60 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Special military operation

Fuck these guys and their Epstein pedophiles.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It'll be over in 4 ~~days~~ years

[–] knee@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

4 ~~days~~ ~~years~~ decades.

The republicans and their preferred pronouns and names.

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Department of Special Military Operations

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

DOSMO? Sounds as good as DoD.
We can keep that suggestion

[–] knee@lemmy.ml 18 points 3 days ago

Definitely not a "Special Military Operation." No, definitely not one of them.

[–] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"There is no war in Ba Sing Se"

pspspsps

"there may be a little war in ba sing se, as a treat"

[–] Akasazh@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago

Meanwhile Trump calling it a war in many occasions

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago

Johnson: What should we call this, Vlad?

Putin: Limited operation

[–] generic_computers@lemmy.zip 13 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I wonder if they just forgot that it was "renamed."

[–] booty@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago

A friend was screensharing geoguessr the other day and I happened to spot "Gulf of America" on the map and I just about cringed myself to death

[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Most probably didn't even noticed it changed in the first place. Not exactly the "hand on the stick" crowd over there

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

It's de facto defense when your pussy troops have to run from Bahrein because you're getting your ass kicked.
Iran is at war now and calling the shots.

[–] frightful5680@lemmy.org 3 points 2 days ago

Department of Morons

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 days ago

We have ~~always~~ never been at war with ~~EastAsia~~ Iran

[–] Zarajevo@feddit.org 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Limited Operation, just like Russia in Ukraine

[–] nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 days ago

3 days tops!

[–] Tapirs_Are_AI_Slop@lemmy.org 10 points 3 days ago

We must defend from retaliation! /s