National guard veteran and Fox News presenter has been a critic of military and has minimal managerial experience

Summary

Trump’s nomination of Pete Hegseth, a Fox News presenter with minimal managerial experience, as defense secretary has stunned the Pentagon.

Hegseth has been a vocal critic of the military, calling for a purge of generals and questioning the appointment of Gen. Charles Brown as chair of the joint chiefs of staff.

Hegseth’s nomination is seen as a boost for the far right in Israel, as he has shown support for territorial expansion and suggested the construction of a new temple on the Temple Mount.

  • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    668·
    10 days ago

    Palestinians are already fucked. They are literally going through a genocide. There is no worse outcome.

    Ah yes, the two states of existence, genocide, and not-genocide. That’s why the genocide, which has been going on for near two-decades now, is no more urgent today than it was in September of last year.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      274·
      9 days ago

      I hate that idea. It was genocide when the Nazis were putting Jews in ghettos, it was genocide when Nazis were putting them in labor camps, it was genocide when they decided on the Final Solution and started putting them in the gas chambers.

      Genocide can get worse. People who say that it can’t are coming from such a ridiculous position of privilege that they will never understand suffering.

    • Deceptichum@quokk.auEnglish
      1248·
      10 days ago

      Pug I usually respect your takes, but this isn’t one of them.

      For nearly a century it’s been a state of apartheid, the genocide in earnest started after oct. The UN and many other institutions have raised huge concerns over it.

      It feels like you’re just trying to downplay what Palestinians are actively going through under Biden to push on the angle of Trump being worse. Honestly it reeks of genocide denial, which I suspect wasn’t your intent.

      • frostysauce@lemmy.world
        3·
        9 days ago

        to push on the angle of Trump being worse

        You… You think that is an angle? Wait and see how not worse Trump is for the people in Gaza.

      • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        446·
        10 days ago

        It feels like you’re just trying to downplay what Palestinians are actively going through under Biden to push on the angle of Trump being worse.

        “Palestinians are being genocided, but that doesn’t mean that the genocide can’t happen faster or in a more bloody manner”

        “I think you’re just trying to downplay what Palestinians are going through under Biden”

        ???

        For nearly a century it’s been a state of apartheid, the genocide in earnest started after oct.

        No. It really didn’t start in October.

        The UN and many other institutions have raised huge concerns over it.

        Yes, they have, and rightfully so. The escalation of the genocide to where it is now is a major atrocity, beyond where the genocide was before.

        Don’t be fooled for a single fucking second that this is as bad as it gets.

        • cygnus@lemmy.ca
          262·
          10 days ago

          Exactly, it’s such a bizarre statement. It’s like saying ghettoes and the holocaust were the same thing.

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
            192·
            9 days ago

            I’m also guessing that the people in Gaza who are still alive think that it could definitely get worse. What with them not being dead yet.