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How? Or was it sarcasm?
by cjbenedikt 2mo ago
How? Or was it sarcasm?
- duttish 2mo agoPersonally I assume there was an implied /s at the end
- pbkompasz 2mo agoI can imagine Pete Hegseth saying that exact sentence to President Trump.
- martythemaniak 2mo agoWell, there's an unspoken rule in SV/HN circles about when the take Trump's idiocies seriously and when to ignore them. For example, "Gulf of America" and "Department of War" you're supposed to take seriously, and all SV communications feature these prominently. Correcting someone about the fact that "The Department of War" doesn't exist will get you downvoted, but apparently you're not supposed to take "Straight of Hormuz is US territory" seriously? I'm am very bad at discerning this rule.
- rybosome 2mo agoCorrecting someone about the fact that “The Department of War” doesn’t exist is pedantic. I wouldn’t go downvote a random comment making the correction, but if I posted a substantive comment remarking on current events and received a reply only pointing out that “it’s ACTUALLY the Department of Defense” then I’d definitely downvote that. Correcting others’ language on this point isn’t saving democracy, it’s needling others on technicalities who very well might be largely aligned with your views. I think the altered name is clownish and reflects the buffoonery of everybody in charge, but I might still use it when making a point because using it in context is not an endorsement.
- martythemaniak 2mo agoIf people downvoted pedantry, everyone on HN would have negative karma. No, it's something closer to The Parable of the Green Grocer from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_the_Powerless https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_the_Powerless. The MAGAfication of large parts of Tech means that lots of people see themselves as respectable, serious, insiders. Pointing out the utter ridiculousness of what they profess to believe is extremely gauche.
- mindslight 2mo agoIf the language doesn't matter, then why have the autocratic authoritarians made such a point of promulgating that language? To me, it's a line in the sand that they've drawn - along with the rest of their dubious alternative reality that we're supposed to eat and repeat to demonstrate allegiance. I know it's real work to go against popularized framings, but it's work we need to do.
- cyberax 2mo agoThat's apparently the latest bright idea out of the White House. And no, that's not out of The Onion.
- fhdkweig 2mo agoYou can find all the news articles here: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=hormuz+us+territory&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?q=hormuz+us+territory&ia=web I miss the days when world leaders read from the internet but didn't post to it.
- Alive-in-2025 2mo agoTrump did actually make this proclamation today. It was a sarcastic comment.
- cjbenedikt 2mo agoThank you. That answers my question. I was still downvoted though.
- voganmother42 2mo agoWhich time?
- TitaRusell 2mo agoA couple of years ago I made the observation that the West would start to copy what China is doing. Ofcourse its only wrong when China does it...
- blooalien 2mo ago> A couple of years ago I made the observation that the West would start to copy what China is doing. Ofcourse its only wrong when China does it... There's no point in seeing anything coming or being right about anything, because the vast majority of people will ridicule you and tell you you're wrong until well after it's too late to change the situation for the better. The tiny handful of us who actually care about a future are a microscopic minority and basically powerless to change it. Best to just live our lives the best we can and to hell with what the rest of the world is doing at this point.
- cjbenedikt 2mo agoWhy the down vote? It was a serious question.