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Archive article: https://archive.is/EfZkV “We don’t have a military full of Nordic pagans,” he said. “No more beards, long hair, superficial individual expression,” he added. “We’re going to cut our hair, shave our beards, and adhere to standards.”

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[-] Geodad@lemmy.world 12 points 4 weeks ago

Is he ranting because he doesn't have enough testosterone to grow one? 🤷‍♂️

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[-] mcv@lemmy.zip 12 points 4 weeks ago

Sorry, but yearly height tests?

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 weeks ago

Weight vs height for approximate BMI

Ought to be required for Commander-In-Chief

[-] Soup@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago

As yes, BMI, an incredibly generic measurement used more as a rough first step and also worth less when someone weighs more due to muscle mass, which I imagine soldiers have a fair amount of.

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[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

**They declared war on America.

Encouraged war crimes (against American citizens)**

Enacted a bunch of racist and sexist shit (beard thing)

Announced they were planning on starting wars as soon as they feel like it

Rejected and alienated large portions of the American population from serving on the brink of WW3

Dementia Don rambled incoherently for a long time

Threatened the generals if they didn’t show fealty to the pedo king

Said the generals aren’t sexy enough for Pete

[-] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 weeks ago

What he did is he proved to everyone he didn't know a thing about the military.

[-] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 weeks ago

"this meeting could have been an e-mail"

[-] chilldrivenspade@lemmy.world 10 points 4 weeks ago

holy shit i really think pete hegseth might be one of the least likable human men i have ever heard speak

[-] forrcaho@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

I'm convinced that the real purpose of this meeting was to gauge the willingness of top military officers to support a coup. I would be surprised if their private conversations in response to this spectacle were not spied on.

Fortunately, at least in public appearance, they don't seem thrilled with this administration.

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[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 9 points 4 weeks ago

OMG! The music after his speech but before trumps. LOL. Its like kinda military music but the kind they use for circuses to. OH OH OH. Its doing the monty python theme. I think this is intentional from either the players or the sound guys.

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[-] Gerudo@lemmy.zip 6 points 4 weeks ago

Just the thing our military needs to encourage enlistment....

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[-] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 6 points 3 weeks ago

This is the most fascist speech in a while, and there's competition

[-] DicJacobus@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

hundreds of senior officers most of which are probably keenly aware that America will possibly be at war with China in the next 5 years, and with Russia uncomfortably sooner. And this cokehead carted them all to Virginia basically just to do hyper conservative virtue signaling like it was an election campaign.

[-] myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 weeks ago

Did you see all that winning in that room? So much winning. Shave. Don’t be fat. And then the orange man rambled about fucking nonsense for like an hour. I mean he said literally nothing coherent or relevant to the meeting. I was so fucking inspired and filled with warrior ethos I shit myself. It was awesome!

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