Comment by SubiculumCode
1 day ago
I don't believe they can change the name to Department of War without an actor Congress. It remains the DoD.
1 day ago
I don't believe they can change the name to Department of War without an actor Congress. It remains the DoD.
Yes, it's officially still the Department of Defense.
If this were a news outline writing "Department of War" I would be concerned. But in the case of the Anthropic CEO's blog post, I can understand why they are picking their fights.
I first read about DoW on a post by Anthropic and thought it was some kind of jab to the government.
Well I think we have an actor congress
He is just a symptom. The problem is far deeper and more severe than just him.
It's a silly shibboleth, but I automatically ignore anyone who calls it the Department of War or Gulf of America. Hasn't steered me wrong yet. They're telling me they're the kind of people who only care about defending fascism.
I call it department of war, because I think it is a great self-own on their part to do such a rename.
There will be no fighting in the war room!
I think it's worth giving people a tiny bit of grace on this. I've surprised people by explaining that the "Department of War" is just fascist fanfic and that the legal name has not changed.
It's a testament to the broken information ecosystem we're in that many people genuinely don't know this. Most will correct themselves when told. I agree with you that those who don't are not worth engaging.
Google Maps calls it Gulf of America, pretty difficult to ignore Google.
Only in America, in the rest of the world Google calls it "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)".
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I ignore Google quite easily. Besides, as soon as Trump is out they will change the name back.
https://s3.gtw.lt/lUew91t6v5AO2u6mAPCXAFME.png
Depends where you at
Because Google are bootlickers.
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They can, however, rename their Twitter/X accounts and vacate the @SecDef handle, which seems to be up for grabs now, if anyone wants to do the funniest thing...
I tried to grab @SecDef just now, they appear to have it blocked/internally reserved
Huh. Maybe they just do that automatically when a verified account renames itself, to keep the old one reserved? Who knows.
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Or all the stupid shit this regime has done, this is the most sane.
They want the department to fight wars. At least they’re being honest.
Except they don’t, because fighting a war requires congressional approval.
No, fighting a war requires only engaging in international armed conflict.
Declaring a war requires Congress, and fighting a war other than in response to an invasion may be illegal under US law if Congress has not exercised its power to declare war, but that doesn't prevent wars from happening it just makes it illegal (though the only actual remedy is impeachment) for the President to wage war without authorization. And, in any case, that’s largely moot because Congress has exercised that power in an open ended (in terms of when and against whom) but limited (in authorized duration of any particular action without subsequent authorization) manner via the War Powers Act, giving every President since Nixon a blank check to start wars with full legal authority and then allow Congress an opportunity to vote to pull support from forces already in combat and hope the enemy already engaged is willing to treat the war as over as the only after-the-fact constraint.
Given today’s new war, I think it’s clear he can start a war whenever he wants
Of all the silly things that Trump did, I think this one is the most reasonable. This has always been a department of war. Calling it defense was propaganda.
Calling it Department of The Armed Forces or Department of Military would be neutral. Putting War in the name is as propaganda-like as Defense.
After it was changed from DoW the first time (in 1947), it was called the National Military Establishment (NME). They renamed it in 1949, potentially because "NME" said aloud sounds like "Enemy"
Gulf of America and department of war are nothing but propaganda and dick measuring. Prove me wrong please.