return2ozma@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoDepartment of Defense to be renamed 'Department of War' within week, Trump sayskomonews.comexternal-linkmessage-square244linkfedilinkarrow-up1809arrow-down110cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squareEvilBit@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up57arrow-down2·1 year agoEuphemisms at least indicate shame.
minus-squareFartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·1 year agoI mean, being ashamed of your evil deeds while still doing them doesn’t make it better.
minus-squareatomicorange@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·1 year 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-down2·1 year agoOr the opposite: you don’t want to fund defense?
minus-squaretatterdemalion@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·1 year 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.