yOuRe iNvItiNg mArTiAl lAw!!
Massive military contracts and a sweet silver oak leaf for your shoulder. I bet they all get a LOM for showing up.
I wonder if Trump will go the way of Milosevic or not.
I’m going for Mussolini.
Small government Peter thiel helping the federal government to grow
Trump appointing BILLIONAIRES (INSTEAD of Army Soldiers) to Run the Army is PROOF he’s looking Out for the Working Class!
“He’s just shaking things up, bro!”
-magamorons, probably, though I did hear one of them literally say these exact words about fElon/DOGE when doing their smash-n-grab of our payment systems.
The coup is appointing apparatchiks to solidify their control over the military.
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Isn’t this exactly what Putin does with his Oligarch buddies? Doesn’t he give them positions in the military. And isn’t that how the military got gutted so badly?
This might be the most awful thing I’ve ever read
On the plus side, they’re now legitimate military targets and it looks like Trump’s about to start a huge war.
I’m about as anti establishment as one can be quietly. I’m not looking forward to any of this. That said, I work for a company that makes military helmets and I make something a little more specialized. So war is… Good? For me? Idk. I hate this timeline.
This is satire, right?
Dems get my vote one last time - the next one. If by that point they don’t have the numbers to hold him, his regime, and his goddamn moron voters to account, AND ACTUALLY DO IT, SWIFTLY, never again. If they’d done their goddamn jobs in 2021 we wouldn’t be dealing with this now, NOR SHOULD WE EVER HAVE TO AGAIN. But if they’re too chicken shit and try to go the “reconciliation” and “forgiveness” routes they can go fuck themselves straight to hell.
oh sweet sumer child thinking you’ll be able to vote under a tyrant
Oh I hold no false illusions about that probability, the only thing that seems to be helping is his utter incompetence AGAIN.
I have bad news. The democrats have been controlled opposition the whole time. They’re just there to be like “oh noooo you gotta vote for US or the big bad THEM is gonna get you” but you do remember how absolutely spineless they’ve been since Trump right? “Oh we gotta work across the isle, guys, we gotta follow the norms guyssss the parliamentarian, guyssss”
They will leave in place everything Trump has done and let it normalize. They are the cooling of the lava before the next eruption, but the coastline is forever pushed right, the land forever charred, and there is no time for Pele to restore the life force before the next eruption. The cycle has become too accelerated.
Work hard for 20 years in the Army and you too can be passed over for promotion because Lt Colonel was handed to someone with zero experience because they are a friend of Trump.
Hey it is me techbro, maybe we should try making the US warfighting machine more efficient by making soldiers pay for their own healthcare so they value their life more!
gets thrown into trashcan by random soldier
Never happens. They’ll vote Maga even as Trump cuts off veteran benefits to fund his weekly golf vacation.
I get the sentiment, but this is really a nothing-burger. They’re coming in as reservists, so they won’t compete against active duty at all. I don’t have much experience with the Army, so I don’t know how their promotions work with regard to MOS. However, I’d imagine they aren’t competing against other MOSes. There’s also a history of doing this with doctors and lawyers.
In general, this is dumb and just a way for some idiot executives to play Army every so often and feel really big and important while doing nothing of value.
You do get promotions in the Army reserve. They are taking jobs that could have been a promotion for an experienced reservist. Even if it’s a do nothing job, it could have been a do nothing job that someone earned.
You do get promotions in the Army reserve.
Correct.
They are taking jobs that could have been a promotion for an experienced reservist.
Probably not. This little think tank was just stood up. Title 10 gives the maximum numbers of officers per service per grade ( https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/523), and I wholly doubt that five new O-5s make an actual difference to getting to that cap. I also doubt we are anywhere near the maximum numbers of authorized officers. There is a retention crisis after all.
Beyond that, they would have to compete within their own competitive categories, so whatever category these people are in is the only one (minorly) affected. In fact, what is most likely is that the Secretary of the Army authorized to add five to the quota for that competitive category to mean that no one gets negatively affected. When officers are directly appointed to senior grades (which does happen), it’s not a big deal.
Look, I agree that this is bad, but it’s not malicious…just dumb and a waste of time and money while cheapening the service career officers have. In the end, this is just a publicity stunt and an eval bullet for some General somewhere. There’s plenty more to be outraged about from this administration than direct commissioning five idiot executives who will likely not do anything of substance.
There’s no reason to make these people pretend-soldiers. You can make them US Army contractors if they need to work with the army. You can make them DoD or CIA or NSA federal employees. There are already avenues for war mongering businessmen to take to work with the military.
LTC’s either have command or staff positions and often approve things like operations orders and contracts. I find this deeply disturbing, especially with people marinating in techbroligarch conflicts of interest. There’s virtually zero chance they’ve been put there for no reason
Palantir is who was brought on to combine all of our information from the different departments in government. This is probably the last bastion. They also want those sweet, sweet, non-competitive contracts.
Shit, yeah, that makes a sickening amount of sense
LTC’s either have command or staff positions and often approve things like operations orders and contracts.
They are not going to have command. The article itself says they’re going to some “Innovation Corps,” which just sounds like some boondoggle assignment on a staff. They will have no actual Army job. They’re just going to be pushing contracts to their companies. That’s bad, but it already happens, so it comes out as just nothing. They are almost certainly not going to be in anyone’s chain of command.
Plus, I’d bet they’ll probably be at the Pentagon. An O-5 there has as much authority as an O-1 in the “real” military.
There’s virtually zero chance they’ve been put there for no reason
Probably just some flag officer’s good idea fairy or a way for a flag to secure a job after retirement. Again, not good, but very par for the course for DoD stupidity and/or corruption.
There are plenty of actual things to get outraged over. Having some tech bros play Army as O-5s is not that important. The DoD already gets bent over a barrel by Palantir and other companies to use their software; it’s wasteful and supports terrible companies. That’s what to get outraged over, not some idiots being appointed as O-5s.
Pushing papers is a job in the Army. It should have been given to someone that earned it.
That’s what to get outraged over, not some idiots being appointed as O-5s.
Honestly this is more personable and deserving of outrage. Yes Palantir getting contracts is technically worse but that’s like getting angry at inflation instead of the price of eggs. People can relate to the price of eggs. People can relate to someone being handed a senior job instead of it going to the person who served.
The Gray Zone has suspicious ties to Russia.
The Grayzone publishes questionable material, stating that a Chemical Attack did not occur in Douma, Syria OPCW investigator testifies at UN that no chemical attack took place in Douma, Syria. They have also promoted conspiracy theories, such as claiming that Pete Buttigieg is a CIA agent. There is no evidence to support this claim. Finally, according to Radio Free Asia, The Grayzone content is frequently shared by the Chinese Communist Party media outlets “CCP propaganda is also increasingly laundered through Western influencers and denialist fringe media outlets like The Grayzone,” the report said, adding that, between December 2019 and February 2021, The Grayzone was cited at least 313 times in Chinese state media.”
Finally, The Grayzone promotes conspiracy theories involving George Soros funding regime changes, and the editor Max Blumenthal claims that Bill Gates ran a Covid simulation before it occurred. This is false. In general, The Grayzone promotes a socialist left perspective that promotes conspiracy theories and pro-Russian/Chinese propaganda.
Falsely claiming that there were no chemical attacks in Syria is a hallmark of Russian propaganda.
Even if this article is correct I would avoid giving them your clicks because of their weird ties to Russia.
If you want another source Snopes reported on this as well: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/us-army-tech-executives/
Thanks. So this may not be the best source but this particular story is confirmed to be true. The exact positions of these execs makes this all the more concerning:
The four new Army Reserve Lt. Cols. are Shyam Sankar, Chief Technology Officer for Palantir; Andrew Bosworth, Chief Technology Officer of Meta; Kevin Weil, Chief Product Officer of OpenAI; and Bob McGrew, advisor at Thinking Machines Lab and former Chief Research Officer for OpenAI.
Wait, this is not from The Onion!?
Fucking idiotic timeline.
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What the Hideo Kojima fuck is going on anymore
