Hegseth is so full of hate and stupidity that he will rule out people who are losing representation and rights, yet are still willing to fight for this nation. Wow, that's thick-as-a-brick stupid. He needs a health care plan will full psych benefits, stat!
He is too stupid to know about the Mattachine Society and it's founder Harry Hay, who was affiliated with the American Communist Party and brought before HUAC during the McCarthy witch hunts. Who does his research? This is such a discreet bit of tiny data to extrapolate -Marxist LGBTQ threat from.
He’s Ivy MAGA. Which means he majored in hypocrisy & propaganda and parlayed that into becoming a ring kissing Trump apparatchik. With major SUD that remains unaddressed.
At face value they are saying they want to strengthen the military, but between purging generals and banning the entire people groups from the military they are doing what Russia did to their military: making it weaker.
For the love of God, will some reporter somewhere at some point ask one of these aggressively stupid, proudly ignorant, undeservedly powerful people to define their terms?
I don't think this fellow has a clue what Marxism is defined as. I'd tell him to define it for me, but he'd rush for the door because he wouldn't know Marxism from Captialism. For his information it has no "gay" component. To my knowledge Karl Marx wasn't gay either so that doesn't work.
Yes, socialism, Marxism, always conservative place holders for anything that helps the people, whether for basic needs or human rights. So old. And many mentioning ‘Marxism’ wld b challenged to define it.
Why do they continuously, and very wrongly apply marxism, and economic theory and model, two things like gay people existing? They are so off the plot it's ridiculous
trump even said at one point after Harris was in the race that all he needed to do was to keep calling her a marxist/communist. They know that just using that word convinces their base to turn off any critical thinking. As a historian what amazes me is that after 100 years it still works.
Because the right likes to take any concept designed to critique systems of power and then repeat it in a different context until actually using it for it's initially intended purpose becomes next to impossible because there's no shared understanding of it anymore.
Pete Hegseth is the poster-child for illiterate adult men who think their lack of knowledge, understanding, and curiosity IS their masculinity. He’s one of the most embarrassing examples of American culture on offer in 2024.
Forget all the prejudice. Can the USA stand to have someone so stupid as Secretary of Defense?
All this attention on sexuality - forget it! These important spots need competence!
Trump is defiant about the need for competence. He wants govt back to the 1920's, tiny, not helping anyone.
Not sure if I can think of a more asinine and insulting comment a person could make about the men and women who are willing to volunteer to defend their country and its citizens. All this despite knowing they might experience pressure from fellow recruits due to who they love.
He does an awful lot of talking in circles and finger pointing in that article to cover up his own hate. Marxist? Really? Can he just be honest with us? Can he be honest with himself?
anyway these people understand marxism to, correctly, be hostile to received hierarchies of status and thus equate anything that upends or weakens those hierarchies to marxism
Is there a passage in Das Kapital, or the Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, or perhaps in Engels' Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (easier to read than Marx) that spells that out?
I think you're giving them too much credit in claiming they understand marxism to mean anything more than "scary word for stuff we don't like", in the same way they use socialism, communism, and radical.
I don’t think they can tell you this, but awareness of hierarchy is a very primal thing and right wingers are extremely sensitive to changes in hierarchy, even if they can’t put it into words.
The funny part is that Marx was concerned with economic equality and barely spoke of social eqaulity. When he did it was through the framing of exploitation through capital. His focus was on class division and I don't think he ever spoke of sexuality. Anyway the guys a fucking carrot basically.
bonus for "Cultural Marxism" is a reworking of "Cultural Bolshevism" and an antisemitic dogwhistle about the They who are doing such things, degeneracy, etc.
I'm not even slightly convinced they realize that. I think "Marxist" is just a kind of funny noise they make when they run across something they dislike.
You’re being generous by saying they understand Marxism - i don’t think they do understand it or care to, it’s just a convenient fear mongering label they slap on anything they don’t like.
Apologies, but I still don’t think they understand any aspect of it or even view it as a genuine threat to hierarchies or anything else, rather just as an amorphous bogeyman
To be fair, queer theory (which, as a discipline, is closely associated with the right of gays to serve) is an offshoot of critical theory. Theodor Adorno and others who originated critical theory were Marxist or post-Marxist socialists. This isn't *zero* connection.
Your point is correct though: What he's essentially getting at is that Marxism is about smashing an existing system. And in his mind, having gays in the military is equivalent to smashing the system of the military.
Exactly. How it coexists with affection for putin, a product of Stalin, Marx, communism, and the KGB is legitimate question to ask him ... when he's sober, of course.
As Marx said: “Gays of the world unite: you have nothing to lose but your chains. Unless you’re into chains. We don’t kink shame in the International.”
I think Karl would find this surprising, to say the least. He and Engels were both known to be homophobic. It was the Nazis who thought communism was gay, of course. Funny how Hegseth says the same thing.
Hegseth just wants to make sure the military is prepared to confront the real enemies -- you know, librarians, social workers, journalists, student protesters, civil rights lawyers, people wearing tie-dye T-shirts....
Great. Has he met Bessent? I guess he’s moved on from bloviating on how women shouldn’t be in combat roles (sorry Tulsi). Someone from the free press should be assigned solely to assess the odour of alcohol coming from him at any given time.
Wait, are they opposed to the gay Marxist agenda now? Because I distinctly remember them getting really horny over the male underwear models in Russian military propaganda
Pete Hegseth is a drunk and has been accused of some pretty disgusting things. I would like to remind him that it is not the LGBTQ community that is molesting children. It's priests and sexually repressed Evangelical trash. Let him put that is his pie and smoke it. Maybe he should smoke some weed.
In 1977 my best friend and I spent a few days staying with his sister and brother in law who were CPM-L and we spent much of the time arguing with them because they believed homosexuality was a bourgeois disorder and there are still a lot of communists who basically believe that
If anybody actually thinks that, they're just as stupid and bigoted as the right wingers :P
Prime example of losing the plot, and missing the forest for the trees, lol.
Just because the Politburo in the Soviet Union was all white guys with questionable views, doesn't mean you need to be 😉
I've spent 40+ years in Democratic circles in some form of another in Texas, DC, New York and California. Not once. Literally not once, has anyone every seriously quoted Karl Marx or suggested any readings of his. His spectre looms large (and rent free) in their heads...
Maybe these cabinet picks are all really just those Tesla robots running LLMs trained over on Twitter. That would at least offer an excuse for their inability to behave like human beings.
Very funny that he says this while simultaneously crying about low recruitment numbers. I’m sure making gay people a target of state sanctioned hate crimes will make them all want to sign up to die for America.
Who would have thought a Christian nationalist with crusader tattoos who screamed about his right to fReE spEeCh drunk at a hotel pool would have shitty opinions on just about everything?
Can i just say how much I’m enjoying him run around scrambling to coverup/deny/lie all the horrible things he’s said/done. And it seems like there is something new everyday 🤣
Crap take Hegseth. Served for 8 years (two deployments) around when DADT ended. All that mattered down range was doing the job. Worked with gay or bi Marines that I would have followed anywhere. Just insanely good at what they did; on their worst days could still run circles around me at my best.
Very funny considering his behavior mirrors someone so deep in the closet that they'd rather drown themselves in anything versus having the courage to be a genuine person
The stupid SOB probably does not even know marxism has a 1st name, spelled K A R L.
I bet he is in the closet. Having a hard time with all those Gay people around him.
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And of course that the "left" broadly stands for this principle:
- Joe Rogan, like, for reals.
They should listen to Einstein:
It's deliberate sabotage.
All this attention on sexuality - forget it! These important spots need competence!
Trump is defiant about the need for competence. He wants govt back to the 1920's, tiny, not helping anyone.
Sit down Mr Hegseth.
You are drunk.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/12/politics/pete-hegseth-gay-trans-troops-marxist-agenda/index.html
Like, the whole bathroom bullshit with Nancy Disgrace. Just being a bigot for the adoring MAGA fans.
Famously ineffective! Never once defeated fascism!
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Hey look here so the people don’t know what’s really going on!
Prime example of losing the plot, and missing the forest for the trees, lol.
Just because the Politburo in the Soviet Union was all white guys with questionable views, doesn't mean you need to be 😉
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/us/hegseth-church-crusades.html
wut
(More proof that these people have no idea that words have actual meanings behind the Scare Front.)
I bet he is in the closet. Having a hard time with all those Gay people around him.
Well, Trump made one of those guys the Secretary of Defense.