Summary

Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s embattled nominee for defense secretary, has denounced policies allowing openly gay troops and women in combat roles as part of a “Marxist” agenda undermining military readiness.

In his book The War on Warriors and past interviews, Hegseth criticized the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell” and argued that inclusivity erodes standards.

Accused of misconduct, his views against women in combat and seeing inclusivity as a threat to national security have been closely examined during his confirmation process.

  • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
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    Isn’t it “funny” how LGBT is “degenerate western propaganda” in communist dictatorships and “Marxist propaganda” for capitalistic autocrats.

    • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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      we’re a threat to power, in general. the current world is built by sexually frustrated angry men. our existence in the open threatens them because if people realize we have always existed, we have always been a threat to power by way of not engaging with the specific torture that keeps the world going, and we still respond to terror enacted against us by calling on people to sing, dance, and be merry, they might do something dangerous: they might start singing, dancing, and being merry

    • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      communist dictatorships

      *State Capitalist Dictatorships

      Theres nothing “communist” about those so-called “communist” countries that still have rich people and huge wealth gaps, and gender inequality. Fun fact: most people in power in “communist” China, are men. In fact, all 24 Members of the Chinese Politiburo are men, zero women. Doesn’t sound very communist to me.

      Every country is just capitalism under a different banner.