this guy being named as Secretary of Defense feels like the sort of thing we should remember when the attacks on DEI and various Black and brown professionals / defenses of "meritocracy" and stray Dr. King quotes ramp up - ThreadSky

olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social • 107 days ago

this guy being named as Secretary of Defense feels like the sort of thing we should remember when the attacks on DEI and various Black and brown professionals / defenses of "meritocracy" and stray Dr. King quotes ramp up

Reposted from Parker Molloy

When i worked at @mmfa.bsky.social, we had a picture of Hegseth above the sink as a reminder to wash our hands

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erikwarren.bsky.social•107 days ago

I have a feeling some protesters are going to be shot in the legs before or during 2028…

filtertron-tele.bsky.social•107 days ago

Legs? I take it you’re an optimist.

erikwarren.bsky.social•107 days ago

Just a callback to when Trump asked the then Sec Def whether they couldn’t just shoot them in the legs and he said no…

filtertron-tele.bsky.social•107 days ago

Yeah, I remember. But I don’t see any reason to believe they’re going to bother with niceties like “legality” this round.

stribrooks.bsky.social•39 days ago

ahamblin.bsky.social•107 days ago

Imagine if Biden had tapped Joy Behar to be SecDef

theoriginaltcmits.bsky.social•92 days ago

He tapped Kammie for VP after she tapped Willie Brown to get into politics. Biden would have been consistent, right?

bgwyn.bsky.social•107 days ago

Whoopie Goldberg would be a better choice.

1liners.bsky.social•107 days ago

I'd feel better than the guy Trump picked, but I get your point.

hillaryjhaldanephd.bsky.social•107 days ago

Good thing Captain Brainworm Beareater is our health guy instead of this yahoo at least…

decmusicology.bsky.social•107 days ago

Small mercies, I suppose

They're making him Secretary of Defense, and not head of the CDC 😳

iris-meredith.bsky.social•105 days ago

I'm curious as how this is going to work with the US bioweapons program, honestly. Like, how exactly is he going to deal with weaponised anthrax spores that he doesn't believe exist?

knoggelvi.bsky.social•107 days ago

honestly, it'd be easier and more effective to just point out he's a nazi with nazi tattoos. let them reckon with that

knoggelvi.bsky.social•107 days ago

just in case soneone doesn't know what i'm talking about
https://bsky.app/profile/dlj.bsky.social/post/3lasbdrmgqs2x

donquixokie.bsky.social•107 days ago

Content of what character?

dianeravitch.bsky.social•107 days ago

Never shake hands with Peter Hegseth. He hasn't washed his in 10 years, he says.

corybernstein.bsky.social•107 days ago

Grasping at straws here because there will be considerable, probably irreparable damage done but the gross incompetence and egos of these appointees will make things so combustible

mrvi.cold-albion.net•107 days ago

Fascist aesthetics - I'm strong I can will germs not to exist, look at my health, not like you crappy genetic defectives we should eradicate with a forced eugenics program.

buckmeister.bsky.social•107 days ago

I wonder what he thinks is happening when you get a cold? Or what that blue-green stuff that appears on old vegetables is?

olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social•107 days ago

i wonder what Pentagon procurement will be ordered to think about the blue-green stuff in the MREs

jstehlin.bsky.social•107 days ago

sort of a version of that quote that went around about respect meaning different things to cops vs. people, "merit" means abilities and achievements to liberals but essentially "good breeding" to conservatives

valencedavis.bsky.social•39 days ago

And MLK day is rape apology day. Welcome to the postmodern era.

joshstein.bsky.social•107 days ago

Whatever one thinks of Lloyd Austin, he was eminently qualified to be SecDef but was attacked by Republicans as "DEI" simply for being Black. Hegseth is a striking contrast.

samalcoff.bsky.social•107 days ago

Or maybe this is the Trump camp embracing an expanded DEI: instead of merit, they have the diversity of Fox hosts and Fox guests, the equity of opportunities for *check notes* weird members of the Kennedy clan, and the inclusion of war-crimes-defending gross hands Hegseth, who shouldn't be included.

jpober.bsky.social•107 days ago

This is the domain of appointments that is actually worrying me (in addition to DHS). Trump put a relative normie at state and will do the same at treasury: those will just be replacement level gop bad. Most of his appointees will be incompetent shitshows. But a military loyal to Trump is really bad

magasaurus.bsky.social•107 days ago

'I don't believe black people can be successful, I worked at keeping them down!'

chrisculling.bsky.social•107 days ago

Sounds like Trump is more interested in a ‘Yes’ man, and ending ‘woke’ in the military than us actually having an effective military. Hoping he doesn’t make it past the sensible Republicans during nomination.

jakeduhjake.bsky.social•107 days ago

📌

lastpositivist.bsky.social•107 days ago

He literally defeats the germ theory every day by his continued survival and yet you do not admit he is an expert in winning impossible forever wars?

plotjes.bsky.social•107 days ago

Know I'm just punishing myself at this point but I still read the 'reasonable' libertarians like Scott Alexander or Tyler Cowen and am always amazed at comments saying stuff like 'RFK jr. isn't really anti-vaxx'.

Who are you kidding? Do you actually believe this?

lastpositivist.bsky.social•107 days ago

Why do they think that, do they say?

plotjes.bsky.social•107 days ago

S Alexander post on [don't vote for Trump] from 2 weeks ago has a lot of comments in this vein. I think it's just confirmation bias, which folks on the left are also susceptible to, but imo that's less annoying than a guy at Urbit claiming their IQ is 298 and it's rational to remove the income tax

mullag.bsky.social•107 days ago

confirmation bias implies they’re looking for evidence that confirms their existing belief that these guys are alright, and they are, but that’s just the method

the REASON they choose to believe it is a combination of genuine disguised attachment and anti-“woke/PC/liberal” animus gone utterly rabid

plotjes.bsky.social•107 days ago

Don't want to defend them but I know I did the same thing so I'm doing porcelain hands before accusing others. I remember 5 or so years back and an investigation about foreign money came out and thought 'hell yeah fuck the right party I hate' but they did ok and I thought it was a bad investigation

zinkmax.bsky.social•107 days ago

When you form an ingroup identity based on being epistemically better, you're fucked when it comes to confirmation bias.

zinkmax.bsky.social•107 days ago

Also it shouldn't be surprising that so many rationalists and associated communities are happy with the new oligarchy - if there are such things as philosopher kings, it's hard to escape the conclusion that philosopher kings should rule.

filipspagnoli.bsky.social•107 days ago

Cowen would call it “mood affiliation” when coming from people he despises

filipspagnoli.bsky.social•107 days ago

Eg https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2011/03/the-fallacy-of-mood-affiliation.html

butlerofdogs.bsky.social•107 days ago

Endlessly questioning something, when the answers are readily available, makes you anti-something.

olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social•107 days ago

solid questions tbh

olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social•107 days ago

speaking of which: is there a bot on here that can remind me of this post, say, January 20th of next year?

rvbdrm.com•107 days ago

!remindme 1/20/2025 @ 8:00am

reminder-bot.juni-is.gay•39 days ago

⏰ This is your reminder! ⏰

reminder-bot.juni-is.gay•107 days ago

Reminder set for January 20, 2025, 08:00 AM CT

olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social•107 days ago

you're a wizard!

rvbdrm.com•107 days ago

I do my best lol

olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social•107 days ago

!remindme 1/20/2025 @ 8:00am

reminder-bot.juni-is.gay•39 days ago

⏰ This is your reminder! ⏰

reminder-bot.juni-is.gay•107 days ago

Reminder set for January 20, 2025, 08:00 AM CT

gabriellehecht.bsky.social•107 days ago

📌

gabriellehecht.bsky.social•107 days ago

Does that work as a reminder? If so, game changer for me…!

olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social•107 days ago

it does! someone built a bot apparently

gabriellehecht.bsky.social•107 days ago

Love that, thanks 🙏🏼

1liners.bsky.social•107 days ago

📌

ellenenders.bsky.social•107 days ago

Maybe we need a name for their DEI...and just start a list w/ examples
The whole Trump crew is littered w/ members of the lucky sperm club & GOP mediocracy....

ellenenders.bsky.social•107 days ago

mediocrity/mediocracy

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