Why do you choose to call it the "DoW"? Its official name is the Department of Defense, it was titled that way by Congress and only Congress can change it. What is your motivation in using a term that the current administration has started to use? Do you also use the Gulf of America when referrring to the body of water that defines the southern edge of the USA?
replyDon't you think it is more to-the-point to call it what it is and what the people running it with, i'll bet everything i have, absolute immunity, are doing and intend to do with it?
replyIt's like the one honest thing they've done
It is "honest" in the historical sense, certainly.
replyBut the executive-order driven name change just another bit of illegal/extra-legal/paralegal behavior by the administration that, every time we just nod along, eats away at the constitutional structure of our government. So don't go along with it.
It's the term used by Sam Altman in the announcement. Maybe aim your anger there, to someone knowingly helping them in their attempt to turn the department into one of aggression.
replyThe president changed it back to its original name with an executive order. The administration did not just start spontaneously using it.
replyNo, the Department of War is the former name of the Department of the Army and nothing else. DoD is a new creation that includes the Army, historic Department of the Navy, and the other, post-WW2, new services.
reply"Changing it back" is completely ahistoric.
The president has no authority to do this. Federal departments and agencies are named by Congress, and even the Republicans in Congress have shown no interest in formalizing this.
replyIf someone is calling themselves a warmonger, they should be called a warmonger.
reply100%. But the names of US agencies are not the names of people, and not determined by individuals, even the warmongers.
replyThe only more fitting name currently would be Department of Peace
replyExactly this! Just like the Gulf of Mexico is still called the Gulf of Mexico, if we just ignore his ramblings and continue calling the department of defense, we undermine his whole point. If we fall for all their crap and just accept it, then we loose in the end. Any resistance to a Fascist government is good resistance. Anything that makes their life's a little shittier is good. Better that they go around having tantrums about how they renamed it but no one is paying attention.
reply> The DoW probably disagrees with that interpretation
replyOr perhaps, maybe, just a little maybe, DoW is getting absolutely excited about mass surveillance and kill-bots?
Not that this will matter on any individual level, but I canceled my ChatGPT subscription after this.
replyI didn't have much of an opinion of Altman before but now I think he's a grifting douche.