It was originally called the War Department. The Dulles boys thought the Defense Department was better for PR.
this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2025
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This is way better for propaganda than calling it "defense"
The chuds would love it and it would own the libs who would be driven batty by the name.
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Look, we need a strong defense. Only crazy people don't think so. But it *cannot* be the Department of War. 1/37
Gavin Newsom's first 100 days:
- Gulf of America is now Gulf of Mexico
- Department of War is now Department of State
- Alligator Alcatraz is now the Joseph R. Biden Memorial Detention Center
- nothing else changes
the Joseph R. Biden Memorial Detention Center
Oof.
do it Trump officially change it back. i mean you just did, in a way. commit to it, do an executive order or proclamation or whatever
I, President Donald J. Trump do proclaim the name of Trump's Warfighters Department is the traditional and right DEPARTMENT OF WAR! Also Pete "Get 'Em" Hegseth henceforth shall be called The Secretary of the Gulf of America and the God of War! Posse Comitatus is now null and void too because that gets in the way of his God of War duties. I do decree!
oh no i don't want to see Hegseth get the Kratos arc
I mean it actually used to be the Secretary of War. The United States only started calling it the Secretary of "Defense" in the post-war shakeup. It's a Cold War artifact.
Secretary of Peace was still too on the nose but I could see it now
The secretary of defense used to be called the secretary of war, they changed it for PR reasons right around the same time we changed the term propaganda to PR. I appreciate the honesty.
The term "politically correct" was born out of this. It describes the process in which bad things are made more palatable through renaming. Other examples include:
- war profiteering -> military industrial complex
- imperialism -> spreading democracy
- person killed by police -> officer-involved shooting
- schools experiencing de facto segregation -> inner-city schools
- white neighborhoods -> affluent neighborhoods
"I'm the secretary for nuking our enemies Mr. President, and I say we nuke'em!"
Why has he put “stuff” in quotation marks?
Boomers do weird shit with text. Capitalizing random words, quotation marks for no reason, ellipses for no reason. Its a mess and no one knows why they do it
It's a "Mystery"...
(Illiteracy and cognitive impairment)
Which was caused at least in part by all the lead in everything
“Greg Heffley” STANDARD English.
The only one I understand is double spacing due to typewriters. But everything else is so weird.
I'm "stuff"
I assume he’s signaling to his base that he means “shit.” Conservatives love codes like that, kinda like “Let’s go, Brandon!” meant “Let’s blow Biden!” or whatever.
Yeah boomers use quotation marks for emphasis
What do you mean? It's completely "normal"!
I read it as self-censoring "knows his shit".
"Emphasis"?
I feel like there's a big divide with the phrase "so called" as well, since I grew up with seeing it used sarcastically.
...maybe he really likes oreos?..
because hes stupid
Hey, finally, some honesty
It is part of his shtick to "say the quiet part out loud"
That's a rare ass honesty from US regime.
