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[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 109 points 2 weeks ago

Love this honestly. Gonna be so much fash on fash violence you won't even believe

[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 38 points 2 weeks ago

Agreed. This is going to be amazing.

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[-] Drewfro66@lemmygrad.ml 91 points 2 weeks ago

Obviously I don't really care about our military installations being secure and all that because I hate America and our armed service, but this is fucking idiotic.

I have a lot of friends who are veterans (anti-war vets, tbc). There's a reason servicemen aren't allowed to just carry guns all over the place and military installations are guarded by armed military police. Armymen (and women) are fucking psychos. When they aren't drunk they're strung out on coke, they have the attitude of fratboys trained to kill and worshipped by their entire country. The only thing keeping the average military base from devolving into a shooting gallery is the fact that the only people with guns on premises are on-duty MPs.

P.S., this is one step closer to my personal wish-list: Trump passing an Executive Order guaranteeing the right of people to bear arms at work.

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 62 points 2 weeks ago

Not only that, but having to check out a gun and report why is going to stop a lot of people to shoot themselves out. Expect a significant rise of suicide inside military bases

[-] fannin@hexbear.net 34 points 2 weeks ago

Hell yeah I hope so.

[-] Carl@hexbear.net 29 points 2 weeks ago

Expect a significant rise of suicide inside military bases

It's already particularly bad at recruit training. Basically every unit has at least one person try it in the first couple of weeks.

[-] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 83 points 2 weeks ago

RIP to literally everyone stationed at Fort Bragg

[-] DogThatWentGorp@hexbear.net 83 points 2 weeks ago

God really did send these bozos to end American hegemony huh?

[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 45 points 2 weeks ago

Oh yeah! I forgot a bunch of the cabinet and VP etc are all living on US bases now.

[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 76 points 2 weeks ago

Countdown to gang gun fights on a US base? Is this on polymarket yet?

[-] axont@hexbear.net 28 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The American gang grafitti found in Iraq during the occupation is one of the most disquieting things I've ever read about. We really do export violence.

[-] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 71 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)
[-] pierre_delecto@hexbear.net 24 points 2 weeks ago

This scene is exactly what came to mind for me

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[-] GladimirLenin@hexbear.net 64 points 2 weeks ago

Lol. Fuck yeah. Something extremely cool is going to happen

[-] Hexamerous@hexbear.net 16 points 2 weeks ago

Bring your the-doohickey to work day. Every day.

[-] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 59 points 2 weeks ago

american soldiers will now have the opportunity to do some of the funniest shit ever

[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 59 points 2 weeks ago

Excellent idea Mr. Secretary, let the psychos rip each other apart

[-] JustSo@hexbear.net 52 points 2 weeks ago

Yes. Sickos stay winning. Fuck yes.

[-] Meh@hexbear.net 46 points 2 weeks ago

Hell yeah, PvP zone

[-] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 43 points 2 weeks ago

One you lathed this!

[-] pierre_delecto@hexbear.net 41 points 2 weeks ago

All this focus on individuality is definitely what you want in your military

[-] GiorgioBoymoder@hexbear.net 40 points 2 weeks ago

lmao this is so stupid. what problem is this supposed to solve? not enough freedom for our warfighters?

[-] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 39 points 2 weeks ago

Do this then institute a draft.

[-] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 38 points 2 weeks ago

I've shared a few times about this. A string of unrelated murders around my barracks happened before I left. All of them were because people were drunk. There's going to be weekly shoot outs on every base in the country. Fucking insane.

[-] TheoryofChange@hexbear.net 23 points 2 weeks ago

Unlimited blue on blue fire onthe Yankee terrorists

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operation first part of full meta jacket

[-] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 34 points 2 weeks ago

hell yeah

incoming yankkkee wehrmacht mass shootings let's fucking go!

lets-fucking-go

[-] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 33 points 2 weeks ago

lol, I'm not sure what this is supposed to solve but I see two cases

  1. Domestic/"safe" bases: Aren't (at least effectively) all killings already done by military personnel? Won't this just make things worse?
  2. Warzone bases: What are they supposed to do, skeet shoot the incoming drones?

kelly Security Blanket Fire

[-] JustSo@hexbear.net 27 points 2 weeks ago

Domestic/"safe" bases: Aren't (at least effectively) all killings already done by military personnel? Won't this just make things worse?

But if something bad happens I will have MY gun to protect ME so in fact it will have improved the situation infinitely.

[-] dead@hexbear.net 22 points 2 weeks ago

It says on the article in the OP that the memorandum applies specifically to "DOW property within the United States", so it would be case 1.

I archived the article because the article is on a US Government website. I don't want to link directly to a US Government website because then the US government could record Hexbear users who click the article by http referer headers.

[-] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks, I didn't realize the archive link had additional info doggirl-thumbsup

"Confirming your God-given right to self-protection is what I am signing into action today, and I'm proud to do so," the secretary concluded, just before signing the memo.

Getting dangerously close to begging for some pro-fragging Catch-22 logic here.

[-] Blakey@hexbear.net 16 points 2 weeks ago

Holy fuck that's even better, specifically a risk to Americans, not even overseas bases. Someone in this thread mentioned that American politicians are moving onto bases for "security" so things could get very ""tragic"".

I wonder what the odds are that the brain genius thinks this will make the soldiers more capable of protecting them, thus making them safer? One thing I've noticed is that more and more high ranking assholes actually believe their own bullshit, unironically and in full. Wonder what the officials moving on to bases for security think of this? Because that too could be very funny. JD Vance moved onto a base, right? Someone interview JD Vance.

[-] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 33 points 2 weeks ago

Puttin' bets on Stephen Miller getting shot. Who wants in?

[-] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 30 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe it wasn't JDPON Don, it was Hoxaist Hegseth all along.

[-] axont@hexbear.net 28 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Please merciful Allah swt bless me with at least one headline describing an officer fragging committed by a fresh recruit in bootcamp. If heaven wills it Full Metal Jacket will become reality

[-] brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 2 weeks ago

Stephen Miller lives on a military base. Who else from the cabinet does?

[-] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 24 points 2 weeks ago

Rubio too I think

[-] 30_to_50_Feral_PAWGs@hexbear.net 27 points 2 weeks ago

We need a sicko-yes-hiding-behind-wall-of-sandbags emoji for this one

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[-] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 26 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Hegseth genuinely seems to believe these rules only exist because of woke and not because they were written in blood. What an idiot.

[-] Hexamerous@hexbear.net 25 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

geordi-no Dishonorable discharge

geordi-yes Accidental discharge

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[-] DasRav@hexbear.net 24 points 2 weeks ago

Any sites taking bets when the first military base mass shooting is gonna be?

[-] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 23 points 2 weeks ago

They really did this because they're bored? This feels like corporate slop just to let someone's resume say they did something. Did someone actually die from something a gun could have prevented? They've government property, why do they need priveliges?

[-] Shaleesh@hexbear.net 21 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

This has been the kind of thing that conservative uncles have been facebook posting since the Fort Hood Shooting in 2009. The notion is that the shooter would have killed fewer people if the army hadn't "gone woke and left our brave warriors utterly defenceless against the forces of evil" or some shit like that.

[-] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 22 points 2 weeks ago

can't wait until someone hijacks the nukes

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[-] SickSemper@hexbear.net 21 points 2 weeks ago

Fantastic I support this!

[-] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I thought when you joined the military they made you leave all your possessions at home and they shaved your hair and put you in a uniform so that you would surrender your identity.

What the fuck possible justification is there for this. I do not accept the premise that military bases are soft targets.

[-] PurrLure@hexbear.net 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I agree Pete Hegseth, these snowflakes made fragging their commanding officer too hard!

Now they can customize their own firearm of choice for the job. gunpoint spamton

[-] InexplicableLunchFiend@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago

brrat brrat brrat

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