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'Best Minds'? Hegseth Taps Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, and Newt Gingrich to Lead 'Future of Warfare' Project | Common Dreams

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/71708142

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    "A board loaded with defense contractors and one draft-dodging war hawk will decide the future of the US military," said one observer. "What could possibly go wrong?"
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    • BaraCoded@literature.cafe
      9 hours

      They need to be luigied before they start WWIII

      • VeryVito@lemmy.world
        22 hours

        A basket of deplorables. In charge of our nation’s deployables.

          • Boo! Haunted House!@lemmy.worldEnglish
            22 hours

            Slap that on a poster and protest!

          • floofloof@lemmy.ca
            1 day

            “A board loaded with defense contractors and one draft-dodging war hawk will decide the future of the US military,” said one observer. “What could possibly go wrong?”

            It’s OK though: they’re overseen by a drunken TV host, and he’s overseen by a senile pedophile rapist, and in any case all the big policy decisions are made by the zombie-eyed, hairless, friendless Nazi lurking in the shadows.

            • funkreddit@lemmy.zip
              1 day

              A non citizen of the US leading their military. How can any of this go wrong

                • Malica@lemmy.zip
                  1 day

                  I thought he was a citizen?

                    • funkreddit@lemmy.zip
                      1 day

                      Naturalized citizen I suppose. Not a true citizen since citizenship by naturalization can be revoked. Elon musk’s naturalized citizenship should be revoked since he is a traitor and anEpstein class pedophile. An Epstein class naturalized US citizen should definitely be grounds for removal, don’t you think? Nope he’s being put in charge of the military. Can’t make this shit up 😂

                        • wjrii@lemmy.worldEnglish
                          1 day

                          citizenship by naturalization can be revoked

                          Theoretically this can only be done if it’s proven the naturalized citizen lied on their application. So probably still applies to Elon.

                            • Taldan@lemmy.world
                              1 day

                              His own brother admitted they lied on immigration papers, so it definitely still apploes

                      • BeBopALouie@lemmy.caEnglish
                        1 day

                        A bag of potatoes would conduct more electricity than that groups brains.

                          • DarkCloud@lemmy.world
                            1 day

                            The other two, sure, but Palmer Lucky has actually been developing autonomous weapons for some time now… And he also sold Meta the Quest V1 which kicked off the current phase of VR technology some 15 or so years ago.

                          • Carmakazi@piefed.socialEnglish
                            1 day

                            Last I recall Elmo thinks that stealth aircraft are pointless because they can be defeated by “cameras and AI” or some such. He literally thinks he’s the smartest engineer in the world when he’s not even an engineer.

                            This amount of corrupt rot and dunning-kruger has the promise of being a fatal bowie knife to the kidney of American military power, so I can’t say I’m too unhappy.

                              • QueenHawlSera@piefed.socialEnglish
                                21 hours

                                They actually had to hire someone who’s job it is to make sure Elon never talks to engineers. Because he had a bad habit of firing them when they contradicted him.

                                Which they did because he knew nothing about what he was talking about.

                                This problem was so bad it lead to a hiring crisis.

                                  • StabbingSky@lemmy.zip
                                    16 hours

                                    I think they also have a team at SpaceX to keep him away from important projects.

                                      • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
                                        8 hours

                                        So merging XAI and SpaceX actually was a money saving idea because they could consolidate the don’t let Elon talk to the engineer teams?

                                        • QueenHawlSera@piefed.socialEnglish
                                          16 hours

                                          Not surprised.

                                          Billionaires are not the best and brightest of us. They are people who merely have a lot of money which buys more money. They don’t innovate, the success of their companies is in spite of them not because of them.

                                          And I hope to see the revolution.

                                      • floofloof@lemmy.ca
                                        21 hours

                                        Canada sits quietly, not interrupting them…

                                      • triptrapper@lemmy.world
                                        1 day

                                        Palmer Luckey is Matt Gaetz’s brother-in-law.

                                          • notacat@sh.itjust.works
                                            22 hours

                                            Also the founder of ModRetro.

                                          • funkreddit@lemmy.zip
                                            1 day

                                            I don’t think enough people are questioning who the “influencer “ is and where he came from or who funds him

                                            • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.worldEnglish
                                              1 day

                                              That’s quite the motley crew of misfits he’s assembled there.

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