return2ozma@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days agoDepartment of Defense to be renamed 'Department of War' within week, Trump sayskomonews.comexternal-linkmessage-square267linkfedilinkarrow-up1827arrow-down111cross-posted to: news@lemmy.world
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minus-squareEvilBit@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up58arrow-down3·5 days agoEuphemisms at least indicate shame.
minus-squareFartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·5 days agoI mean, being ashamed of your evil deeds while still doing them doesn’t make it better.
minus-squareatomicorange@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·5 days agoKind of? It makes you more likely to moderate, stop earlier, do less atrocities if you think the public won’t like it or is ashamed of it.
minus-squarelmmarsano@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·5 days agoOr the opposite: you don’t want to fund defense?
minus-squaretatterdemalion@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·5 days agoI suppose they do, but that doesn’t imply “Department of War” is any less shameful, except for the fact that we know Trump doesn’t have shame and only wants to change the name because it makes him sound more authoritarian.
Euphemisms at least indicate shame.
I mean, being ashamed of your evil deeds while still doing them doesn’t make it better.
Kind of? It makes you more likely to moderate, stop earlier, do less atrocities if you think the public won’t like it or is ashamed of it.
Or the opposite: you don’t want to fund defense?
I suppose they do, but that doesn’t imply “Department of War” is any less shameful, except for the fact that we know Trump doesn’t have shame and only wants to change the name because it makes him sound more authoritarian.