Seriously, they are both former military, my dad was in for like 30 years, how do they like the drunk secretary? I get that he saw combat, but being in combat doesn’t automatically make you qualified for… well anything except therapy and medical care.
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Decades of propaganda
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I’m not trying to insult here, but your parents aren’t that smart. One of mine fell for it too.
Bottom line is if you fall for extremely obvious propaganda you are not, and never were, very intelligent.
I don’t think they aren’t smart in a logical sense, I think its more of a lack of critical thinking and a focus on short term gains (which i would argue aren’t even that good lol)
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You can’t reason people out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into.
I know America thinks being in the military is an amazing thing, but if we tune back to reality, soldiers are not excellent human beings.
being a soldier does not make you an excellent human being.
much like existing doesn’t make you a good person.
It’s easy to win over weak people.
they’re selfish and dumb and choose to be ignorant
simple as that. they might be nice people in some respects, but the above still holds true
Party of suckers and losers.
I think my best guess is the “mere exposure effect”. The guy and his ego strikes me as something that’s probably fairly common in the military (as far as I can tell from the outside). Being exposed to a lot of men like him probably makes him feel comfortably familiar.
Brain damage?
Probably because he won’t raise their taxes or the taxes of our oppressors.
It’s all about the money, and money brings out the worst in people.
Because he’s ever so pretty?
This comment section is comically unhinged and batshit crazy that it’s a good reminder that this platform is infested by terminally online idiots who I should interact less with. Welp time to go touch some grass.
It’s weird how this is the thread that would you think that.
Nobody here knows anything about OP’s parents or why they like Hegseth or to what extent, and then have hoards of idiots calling them cruel, evil, or vile with zero context. Like I said, unhinged. You just don’t see it because you’re a part of the mob
Care to provide any specific examples?
Literally all of the top comments. The real question is how can you not see how unhinged they are?
Right, so no examples. Got it.
I’m 100% you’re a troll who’s being pedantic. But here’s an example anyway:
Your parents might lack empathy and are cruel, therefore they are looking for other cruel people to confirm their cruel behavior: The cruelty is the point
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/the-cruelty-is-the-point/572104/
That’s one of the top comments. All we have is the second hand account of OP who vaguely stated that his parents like Hegseth. We have no idea who they are, what they stand for, why they like Hegseth, or to what extent. Yet people like this commenter took the liberty to just make unhinged baseless assumptions about how they’re cruel and evil. That’s unhinged. If you can’t see it, you’re probably unhinged yourself.
That’s not unhinged at all, you need to pull your head out of your ass and pay attention to what is happening.
If you support what this administration is doing, you are cruel and evil.
No, you’re an idiot. Making up assumptions about random people you don’t know makes you a deranged lunatic. That’s not an endorsement of politics but a call out of loser behavior.
Are they white? Do they have an aversion to non-white people? Do they make enough money to materially benefit from the Trump era tax policies? Yes to any 2 and you’ve got an answer, no to all 3 and I’m as stumped as you are.
Honest answer, as someone in the military:
A LOT of military people lament how “soft” the military has become, and someone coming down on beards, fat, etc, as well as being up front with what the military is for (e.g. Department of War), scratches a whiny itch they’ve always had. Because every old salty sailor and sandy equivalent feels like they came from the Old Guard.
I came from the Old Guard that my peers are nostalgic about. It was terrible and unnecessarily cruel. It was inefficient and left new people floundering instead of supported. The whole thing feels like a cycle of abuse.
But back to the point, they don’t care if he’s underqualified, makes bad and inexperienced military decisions, or has a host of DUIs (“who doesn’t?”). They only care that he’s calling generals fat to their faces and getting rid of beard ememptions.
What’s funny is that nobody alive today was alive and in the military for any major conflict that we were actually victorious in, so what “good old days” are these geezers even pining for? The days where we lost a bunch of soldiers in Vietnam and the ones who survived came back with PTSD and drug addictions?
The good old days where the people in charge could get away with anything, that’s what it comes down to.
nobody alive today was alive and in the military for any major conflict that we were actually victorious in
There are still a handful of WWII vets kicking around
Also depending on how you want to define “major” and “victorious” you could maybe make an argument for Dessert Storm, and possibly the 2003-2011 Iraq War. (Whether we should have been involved in those wars in the first place, and how those wars were fought are separate issues, and I certainly wouldn’t call them “unqualified” victories, but I do think there are absolutely certain angles you could look at them from and make the argument that the US was the victor in those conflicts)
The wars in the Middle East are tricky, though, because to have a “victory” you would need a clear metric for it, a clear goal. It’s not like the US was looking to conquer and annex those countries
If the goal was to completely fuck up a country with little to no (physical, not financial) damage to our home country, mission accomplished, one helluva victory.
If the goal was to stop Terrorism… that’s like the War on Drugs, there’s no winning that.
If the goal was merely to occupy them in order to (temporarily) prevent them from being a staging ground and financial support for Terrorism… I guess that worked? For awhile?
Vietnam and Korea were about stopping Communists from taking over the country. Huge failure on Vietnam, and apparently a draw in Korea (considering the North/South divide). But it was a clear enough goal. The Middle East? Who knows what the specific goal was (other than trillions of dollars to the Military Industrial Complex).
Your parents might lack empathy and are cruel, therefore they are looking for other cruel people to confirm their cruel behavior: The cruelty is the point
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/the-cruelty-is-the-point/572104/
Sorry to tell you this but the racism really resonated with them.
