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Hegseth Announces Elon Musk and Newt Gingrich Will Help Lead Military
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Oh gee, what could go wrong putting a foreign born white supremacist technocrat in a lead position of our military with full access to its systems so he can integrate an AI system no one understands or knows how to defend against or extract should we want to do so at some point.
But he saved so much money with DOGE and nothing bad happened there!
/s
Don’t forget this douche
They should have added Palmer Luckey to the headline. Extremely concerning that he has a prominent voice in the future of the US military and access to top level sensitive information.
If people are unfamiliar with him, they should do a brief search. It deepens what a terrible idea this is.
Who's that douche?
Palmer Luckey. He made his money in the early days of VR. Think he runs a defence contractor now. Apparently he's a massive arsehole.
Yes he runs Anduril, and is another Thiel wannabe weirdo psychopath billionaire.
I’m so upset I bought a Rift DK2 back in the day
How long before Grok suggests invading South Africa in the name of "liberation" or some other BS
Elon's the least stupid of the three.
Yeah but it’s such a low bar
He can't steal the data twice!
The problem is he doesn’t need to anyway. The govt data was all that was missing to integrate into his machine learning and ai systems to craft whatever surveillance, hacking, predictive, repressive, and even murderous systems he wants. They already had public data they collected, they had private data they bought, all that was left was govt data to combine all three. Now they’re on to using it for really really bad things.
I bet if he shoved that up my ass it would be amazing.
Agreed but no need to denigrate foreign-born folks.
I’m not, it’s a security risk, that’s simple logic that doesn’t have to be bigoted in nature. The current administration does use foreign national status to denigrate and abuse others due to their bigotry all the time, as does the Republican Party, so I can understand some reflexive accusations, but do not be mistaken, the US and every nation on earth have enough trouble as it is securing their governments, their secrets, weapons, economies, and people, and all of them have had to be wary of foreign national security threats due to those concerns for all of time. It’s literally encoded into our Constitution and who is allowed to head up the executive branch, via the office of the Presidency, as commander in chief.
Everything is a security risk. My comment wasn't reflexive. We've had plenty of foreign born military folks, including generals. That portion is not why they are threats. It is the wealth hoarding white supremacy.
It’s all of it combined. He was forced out of Canada, or his father was, for their bigoted views and that’s why they fled to SA, and eventually landed here to continue those belief systems and behavioral patterns, that makes them extreme threats based squarely on all the reasons you mentioned AS WELL and inextricably because of their foreign national history. You don’t go all pc to avoid looking like an asshole when valid national security concerns are blinking so red and bright it’s a like a supernova of red flags and lights going off