• Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca
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    22 minutes ago

    The Space Force proved its incompetence when they called their bases “Space Force Base” instead of “Star Base”.

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    Space Force?

    🤣

    As if the USA had any sort of capacity for that atm. Just another publicity stunt. Need to stay afloat on the churning media waters. That’s what US “government” has come to. Well, not only that unfortunately.

    Greetings to Hugo Boss btw, may he turn in his grave.

    Hollywood spent 80 years copying and re-imagining nazi aesthetics, now the US government does the same.

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      We are plenty capable of launching rockets still. We just launched the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope last week. Probably the only decent thing this administration will “let” us engineers do in the next decade.

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      Space Force isn’t new, it’s been around since 2019. Everyone mocked the name back then, but I’m just pointing out its not a new publicity stunt.

      There’s even a Steve Carrell show about it, though I have no idea if its any good.

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        Space Forces in general aren’t even a new thing. The Russian Space Force was originally founded in 1992 and re-established in 2015.

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        It was pretty good iirc. Mostly mocking the military than anything else. Cancelled after two seasons though so probs not worth watching anymore.

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    Paul Verhoeven entered the chat…

    I made a whole ass movie about fascism in space… And yes, it was a warning from the moment the script was being written…

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    Dog whistle. Ice is the SA and space force will form the more elite SS. Himmler would be proud. And that they chose space force shows how dumb Trump acts through that all.

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        7 hours ago

        A dogwhistle is a more or less megaphone only dogs can hear. So you are right and wrong at the same time. A dog whistle is fucking loud, you just don’t hear that.

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          The idea of a dog whistle is as you say only dogs hear it. So in the use case of Nazis letting each other know they are Nazis it’s usually a subtle thing. A phrase or gesture that’s innocent on the face of it, but signals to other Nazis they are Nazis. Like what they tried to do with the OK hand signal.

          Putting up your hand and shouting Heil Hitler isn’t really a dog whistle, as everyone knows at that point you are a Nazi.

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            Yeah I tend to agree. But a uniform somewhat looking like the SS uniform is not as obvious to everybody. Its at least plausibly deniable.