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PaulDavisThe1sttoday at 6:04 AM6 repliesview on HN

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?


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thejazzmantoday at 6:43 AM

Don'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?

It's like the one honest thing they've done

matsemanntoday at 7:04 AM

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.

IsTomtoday at 10:17 AM

The only more fitting name currently would be Department of Peace

charcircuittoday at 9:07 AM

The president changed it back to its original name with an executive order. The administration did not just start spontaneously using it.

calgootoday at 10:16 AM

Exactly 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.

j_maffetoday at 8:46 AM

If someone is calling themselves a warmonger, they should be called a warmonger.