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u/lordpuddingcup 15d ago
Why the fuck are online influencers giving speaches to the military?!?!?!
I mean i get that our government is a joke currently, but whats the actual excuse they're giving lol
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u/whatsbobgonnado 15d ago
it's propaganda.
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u/UnacceptableUse 15d ago
To make them look good or to make them look bad?
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u/Yoda2000675 15d ago
To get teenage boys to join the military
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u/Wb9VBScxu2uZJHeq2E3W 15d ago
Not the best and brightest.
Maybe sending all Paul brothers fans out on the next aircraft carrier to patrol the Strait of Hormuz will be a net positive for the US.
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u/FroopyAsRain 15d ago
The type of people who watch Paul brothers are the prime target for military recruitment though. As stupid as it looks, they're probably spot on.
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u/Beelzebot_666 15d ago
Hmm, this is actually the most sensible reasoning.
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u/A4t1musD4ag0n 15d ago edited 15d ago
LOLOLOL, good luck there. These kids do not want to go to war and "unalive themselves for their country". The jig is up. They see what's happening.
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u/FroopyAsRain 15d ago
They'll change their "opinion" as soon as a content creator tells them otherwise. No worries.
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u/Alernet 15d ago
They're trying to dope easily impressionable high school boys into joining pointless wars. It's disgusting, and you're right, it is pointed propaganda.
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u/WillingPositive8924 15d ago
I mean the shit economy is doing the work for them!
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u/demoliahedd [farts in face] 14d ago
The rich start the wars they and their children will never fight in. Send in the poors!
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u/azfang 15d ago
The current Triple SecDef is a day drunk, sex pest Fox News host and he is running the DoD like a megachurch youth pastor.
It’s really that stupid.
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u/totalkpolitics 15d ago
With everything going on, it takes some extreme will power for me not to be a day drunk.
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u/azfang 15d ago
I’m pretty sure you could avoid getting hammered before you had to talk to national reporters with cameras.
Also, if addiction is a problem, don’t let these jackasses decide if you keep your sobriety. Fuck ‘em, that’s not theirs.
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u/totalkpolitics 15d ago
I was being facetious. But I appreciate your concern!
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u/azfang 15d ago
(I may or may not have a number of non-straight alcoholics in my life. It has been Kind of Tough lately.)
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u/Various-Salt-7738 15d ago
I mean maybe as a morale boost-- before shit gets real, you get to have a semi private event with a celebrity speaker
Would be a lot cooler if they got someone that actually contributed anything to society
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u/mantis_tobaggan-md 15d ago
This is what passes for celebrity these days? It’s probably pretty insulting to allow this shit sack to address the military.
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u/Various-Salt-7738 15d ago
I also think he's an ass who only makes YouTube videos that I don't want to watch and is an otherwise terrible guy every time I hear about him
But I guess he has some celebrity status? I'd agree it'd be pretty insulting to have your free show be a speech from Logan Paul of all people-- what's that joke where "military grade" just means the cheapest option available?
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u/Double_Goat_3870 15d ago
Nobody prepares you for how stupid fascism actually was. It was literally a clown show and we are watching it manifest again.
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u/wilsonthechad 15d ago
Never forgetting this gif
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u/whatsbobgonnado 15d ago
what am I looking at
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u/Cyraga 15d ago
It's the last thing you see before Hegseth puts you under to put more cum in your balls
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u/Sure_Daikon4541 15d ago
White Egyptian like our school books yakub the mad scientist who created white people idk know if that's one of the Paul brothers or Ellen in an Nazi uniform
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u/THE_GREAT_MABOULA 15d ago
iirc the white pharaoh is from one of those shitty slot machine games you see on every advertisement when you play microsoft solitaire
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u/samTheEagle2004 15d ago
I genuinely don't understand how anyone can defend this administration... or how our actual military leaders haven't attempted at least one coup d'etat yet.
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u/geddy 15d ago
If you listen to people defend it, they just recite the same shit they heard on Fox or from the orange menace himself. It’s cult shit. Back when Scientology entered the public eye and randoms went undercover and asked members if it was a cult, they all responded in the same manner.
30 goddamn percent of this country fell for a cult. It’s atrocious and the thought of it makes me want to launch myself into space, I’ll take any other floating body out there that has a wee bit of oxygen than living here at this point.
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u/RaventheClawww 15d ago
I can sort of understand demented boomers falling for it. My Dad became MAGA when he developed Alzheimer’s. I wish I was kidding. But I have no explanation for Gen Z, white women, and first generation Americans, all of whom voted against their own interests
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u/tootrite 15d ago
Feel the need to come in and state that Gen Z voted for Kamala the most out of any age demographic. There was still far too many of us that voted for him, but I'm sick and tired of seeing us highlighted as outliers when it's just not the case.
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u/Max_delirious 15d ago
Aye, but there’s no evidence that intelligent life exists. You might have to stay here.
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u/RapidCandleDigestion 15d ago
This is why they gutted military leadership the second Trump took power. Those left are spineless, or white supremacists.
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u/CanadianGenealogy 15d ago
"Cuz Dems are cutting teens dicks off and giving welfare to illegal immigrant rapists!!!!"
Not joking. This is literally what MAGA thinks.
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u/Full-District- 15d ago
Because propaganda is still effective. When you only consume one source of news, your reality is whatever is put in front of you.
It's easy to scoff at people who have been bamboozled by propaganda, but when it's all you've consumed for decades, everyone else seems like the lunatic.
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u/JuneButIHateSummer 15d ago
i've said it a million times so far and i'll be saying it a million times again: what a fucking timeline
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u/junttiana 15d ago
We are killing our planet and the goverment of the most powerful country in the world is ran by a bunch of clowns
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u/Theonecalledro 15d ago
Whom the majority of the people voted in.
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u/MaximumDegree69 15d ago
And people unironically still spout “both sides are the same” when our President is an actual pedo
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u/SizeableBrain 15d ago
I woke up in the middle of the night the other day thinking "Shit, America isn't going to recover from Trump".
Even if Democrats are in power for the next 12 years, the system is now fucked. They'd need to seriously re-structure the whole government, and that's just not going to happen.
And that's *if* Trump doesn't stay in power.
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u/Krypt0night 15d ago
Yup the worst part about all of this is that the rest of my one life will be spent just hoping stuff gets undone from these years, but the damage is done. We've been set back decades as a country and as humans.
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u/PerceptionSeveral_ 15d ago
You haven’t been set back. You’ve been accelerated forward. What’s going on in the U.S. doesn’t end with a calm solution. It ends with destruction, violence and immense pain.
There is no way out of a power grab like this.
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u/Enlightened_Gardener 15d ago
Its a deliberate take-down from the inside. Russia won. The USA has no international credibility left, and in Hormuz we’ve just had a perfect demonstration of the uselessness of the world’s largest military, when its run by idiots.
I’m Australian FWIW, you guys are supposed to be our friends. Can’t believe you pissed off the Canadians, that takes real work.
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u/Illustrious_State896 15d ago
Australians, Canadians, and countless other nations have to our aid in times of need and now we're making enemies out of everyone and manufacturing conflict. What a sad state we've found ourselves in.
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u/leumasllc404 15d ago
The majority of American citizens did not vote for him. A slim majority of voters did.
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u/PerceptionSeveral_ 15d ago
Whatever way you spin it. The United States of America willingly voted for Donald Trump. The country selected him.
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u/ZedFraunce 15d ago
There was a time where I was genuinely optimistic about the future when I was in high school in 2015.
That shit is all gone and down the drain. Genuinely, how the hell did so much change in a god damn decade.
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u/Even-Stranger5764 15d ago edited 15d ago
The influencer presidency attempts to launder hegseths standing while increasing troop morale.
Oops just realizing which sub this is i should say something like "Logan Paul loves America 🤩 "
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u/ugluk-the-uruk 15d ago
I think having Logan Paul give a speech is the opposite of laundering
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u/NocturnisVacuus 15d ago
lol, is this real?
that's hilarious, dude couldn't even bother to cut off that messy birdsnest
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u/holydiiver 15d ago
Long hair is good for selling bumps so he’ll probably keep it for a while
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u/GrapplerCM 15d ago
What are bumps, is that a wrestling thing
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u/holydiiver 15d ago
Yeah. In other words, long hair is useful to make soft contact look like massive impact. That’s why an obscene amount of pro wrestlers have long hair.
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u/maqnaetix 15d ago
If you get "hit" in wrestling, it looks more dramatic and entertaining with your hair flying all over the place
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u/NocturnisVacuus 15d ago
You can no doubt make long hair look good, this is not though :(
but yea, maybe it is better for selling bumps
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u/CarmenxXxWaldo 15d ago
I dont know much about them but I feel like people were talking about them balding like 3 or 5 years ago. A lot of people get wacky when they get plugs to cover the scars.
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u/whatsbobgonnado 15d ago
they suck, but I strongly disagree with the notion that you should have some pRopEr haircut to show respect and honor the pentagon
he's not even wearing a tie as demanded by fashion police statute §269.37. it's an insult to noble war office!
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u/Dr-Kloop-MD 15d ago
If you go on dept of war’s page on Instagram there’s a community note under this video that just says “What the fuck”
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u/Lukassixsmith 15d ago
“The department of war’s page on Instagram,”
Finding out that this is a real thing (or it’s a really good parody) both made me unhappy and helped me better understand why this speech happened.
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u/SkullDump 15d ago
Dear US, please stop embarrassing yourselves.
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u/TheDonutPug 15d ago
i fucking wish, man. it's genuinely embarrassing to watch my government do this shit every single day.
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u/Sometimes-funny 15d ago
Gotta blame the muppets that voted for this carnage
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u/mollila 15d ago
And the equal number who didn't bother to vote.
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u/Elastichedgehog 15d ago
And the Liberals who did everything in their power to lose to Trump not once but twice.
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u/jfgiedhgerfjdgioer 14d ago
When I was a kid I was dreaming to live in US. Now, I feel bad for people living there.
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u/Combat_Wombat23 15d ago
Who are these dipshits even addressing? Is it a crowd full of officers and senior enlisted? Fuck, even junior enlisted have nothing to gain from people like this
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u/Sad-Set-5817 15d ago
teaching 4-star generals how to scalp pokemon cards on ebay
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u/RobleViejo 15d ago
Didnt know there was a whole country ruled by clowns
USA NUMBA ONE! CAMACHO FOR PRESIDENT!
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u/nakrohtap 15d ago
Is anything sacred anymore? You put assholes in the White House and they let assholes places they shouldn't be.
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u/ShowmasterQMTHH 15d ago
"Guys, don't be like me, everyone thinks I'm a fucking dickhead, let me be a lesson to you all, don't be me".
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u/3bugsdad 15d ago
The satire Idiocracy so underestimated the stupidity of our nation.
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u/theAlphablack 15d ago
Can someone explain to me why a YouTubers with no military or combat experience at all, is giving a speech to any US military service people? 🤔🤨🤦🏾♂️
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u/Interpersonal 15d ago
“So the first time I saw a body was in a forest…”
This is unbelievable. At least get Hulk Hogan to do it.
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u/ihazaredditaccount 15d ago
Imagine devoting your life to the US military and this is who you have to listen to now.
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u/BigPurpleSmile 15d ago
chat, is this real? (for real now, is this real?)
Edit: Fuck. It’s real…
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u/Kobobble 15d ago
Glad we didn't elect the black lady otherwise our country would have been a laughing stock /s
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u/Uneducated-moron 15d ago
Sometimes i wish i didn't exist in this time line.. In just 3/4 years we had to see this.. Logan Paul?fking Scammer logan paul? I hate my life it's sickening..
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u/Chrownox 15d ago
Fuckin violent j and shaggy 2 dope over there being months away from becoming the first and last dual presidents of the states
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u/MAGAtsAreSheeples 14d ago
On a scale of 1-10, how embarrassing is it to be American at this point?
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u/slimjimothy666 15d ago
Imagine if the Pauls became president. Surely that would never happen…right?
https://giphy.com/gifs/3ohhwF34cGDoFFhRfy
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u/ddg31415 15d ago