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Nothing brings home the Orwellian nature of USA 2026 more for me than the word "warfighter".
by CurtHagenlocher 7mo ago
Nothing brings home the Orwellian nature of USA 2026 more for me than the word "warfighter".
- cyberax 7mo agoJust remember, we're not at war with Iran. The House Speaker said so.
- Maxious 7mo agoWe can use the word war because Iran used the word war. But it is not a War in the constitutional sense. Or something.
- nerdsniper 7mo agoTrump also says it's war. Different parts of US government leadership are arguing opposite tacks. That said, it's clearly intended to create an existential threat to Iran, so it's plainly obvious that the USA started an actual war.
- rmm78 7mo agowe are though, they plotted to assassinate the US president, not to mention being the #1 sponsor of terrorism in the middle east, attacking our allies
- skeledrew 7mo agoUS took out Iran's supreme leader. It's simple tit for tat.
- deleted 7mo ago[deleted]
- rmm78 7mo ago[dead]
- malfist 7mo agoSure they did. Thats why we only discovered it after we assassinated their current and former leaders.
- saulapremium 7mo agoI will bet that before the election, you were one of the many shouting that voting for Kamala would mean war with Iran. It's pretty wild to observe you all getting firmware updates in real time. At least it proves, once and for all, that any attempt at reasoning is futile.
- vkou 7mo agoThe president's club says that we are. Did the house vote for starting it?
- rmm78 7mo ago[flagged]
- senadir 7mo agoWhat stops the DoW from going after me? As a Middle Easterner? And once it's done with me, why wouldn't it go after you? as its branches did, locally?
- hamdingers 7mo agoI continue to be surprised how many people haven't heard term until now, it's been in common use in the US for 20+ years. To me the most Orwellian thing is everyone using the newspeak name for the DoD.
- _--__--__ 7mo agoDoW is the opposite of newspeak, it is much more transparent and honest about what that organization is and has been for my entire life
- malfist 7mo agoDoW is newspeak. Thats not it's name.
- esrauch 7mo agoThey do a lot more war than defense don't they?
- abustamam 7mo agoThat may be true but changing the department's name can only be done with an act of congress, which has not been done yet. Thus, the name is still officially and legally Dept of Defense. Just because a name is more accurate doesn't mean that it's its new name. Otherwise we wouldn't be the United States of America (we are literally not united bc Hawaii and Alaska are not contiguous, and we are figuratively not united because... Well, you know)
- fluidcruft 7mo agoAll of that's irrelevant for what "newspeak" means.
- abustamam 7mo agoMaybe, but the comment I was replying to wasn't talking about newspeak.
- SV_BubbleTime 7mo agoReally? You made it through Covidpocalypse, but the there warfighter is a big problem?
- HerbManic 7mo agoEverytime I hear 'Department of War', it just saddens me. Warfighter is the same. "When the way prevails in the empire, fleet-footed horses are relegated to ploughing the fields; when the way does not prevail in the empire, war-horses breed on the border." Tao Te Ching chapter 46.
- wildzzz 7mo agoI work in the defense industry. I have not heard a single person say Department of War or DoW.
- sph 7mo agoThe guy that replaced Noem yesterday was dubbed by Trump a ‘MAGA warrior’
- quirk 7mo ago[flagged]
- ImPostingOnHN 7mo ago> Also the original commenter does not understand the word "Orwellian" Seems they understood it well: George Orwell wrote a book named "1984", in which a central plot point was that distortion of language ("Newspeak") causes distortion of thought, which causes distortion of reality. Newspeak is a means of engineering reality. This is an example of that: by distorting, say, "servicemember" into "warfighter", you distort the reality that people at the DoD are there to serve the people as their primary goal, not "fight wars". This means building bridges, levees, aiding disaster-struck friends overseas, etc. Even if a war actually needs to be fought, it should not be the goal, and thus the job description. It should be in service of the actual primary goal, which is serving the people.