Does this mean the execs are now also under the UCMJ?
I wonder if the executives have realised this
Palantir, Meta, OpenAI Execs Appointed Lieutenant Colonels in US Army (2025)
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#33Did this mean less Russian propaganda bots or more American propaganda bots?
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#34Why does the army tuck their pants into their boots like that? Do they like wicking and trapping moisture into their shoes?
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#35The tech industry is falling in line just as expected. Disgraceful. Don't take orders from a LtCol with zero military experience.
You seem to be confused. When the tech industry starts appointing people to the military, it's America that is falling in line to them.
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#36I'm normally very reluctant to cheer most comparisons us the US political situation to nazi germany, or to fascism in general.
But events like this (and the Intel stake) seem like an exact implementation of what has come to be called The Third Position[0], which, if I understand correctly, was the etymology of the world 'fascism' itself.
Mussolini's 1913 Fasci d'Azione Rivoluzionaria was apparently named after 'fasci', or corporate syndicates, his vision of which is basically exactly what we're seeing here: the state owning stakes in the means of technocratic production, and corporate leaders in positions of military command.
And although "The Third Position" is usually called a _neo_-fascist movement, I believe that Mussolini articulated it, more or less in its entirety, some time in the early 1920s?
I'm more of a political scientist than a historian, so it's possible I have this wrong.
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#39The comments here are hilarious. Every competent military in the world has DCO programs... Otherwise they'd never be able to attract talent for specialised fields.