Trump unveils Space Force uniform inspired by Nazi-aesthetic film
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Didn't we see this movie?
The AI didn’t have much else to work from.
Starship Troopers is right there.
The point of that movie went over his head and hit a firefighter behind him.
Space nazis? I hate Space nazis
He must've seen Iron Sky
Oh, that makes too much sense with the moon comments as well....
This is going to get very weird.
Actually it was starship troopers
Guns shuttle throttle
Umm yea... For quite some time actually...
Thatsthejoke.jpg
I know, I'm just tired boss... I can't even laugh at this shit anymore. These people are beyond despicable
Dog whistle. Ice is the SA and space force will form the more elite SS. Himmler would be proud. And that they chose space force shows how dumb Trump acts through that all.
Dog whistle? It's a megaphone... "WE ARE NAZIS COME BE NAZIS WITH US"
A dogwhistle is a more or less megaphone only dogs can hear. So you are right and wrong at the same time. A dog whistle is fucking loud, you just don't hear that.
The idea of a dog whistle is as you say only dogs hear it. So in the use case of Nazis letting each other know they are Nazis it's usually a subtle thing. A phrase or gesture that's innocent on the face of it, but signals to other Nazis they are Nazis. Like what they tried to do with the OK hand signal.
Putting up your hand and shouting Heil Hitler isn't really a dog whistle, as everyone knows at that point you are a Nazi.
Yeah I tend to agree. But a uniform somewhat looking like the SS uniform is not as obvious to everybody. Its at least plausibly deniable.
It's fairly clear that you are a person that moves through your life thinking you are intelligent and that you're constantly delivering precise repartee in this thread or that, but in actual fact...
You think I'm a person? I would have thought my opinion entitles me to not being considered human. Maybe throw a little guillotine in as well. ;)
Feeling guilty for something, Mr/Mrs "somewhat resembling a nazi uniform"?
Garbage take, you got one.
Yeah but we can hear it too.
Sweet summer child, the time of dogwhistling is long gone.
Godwin's Law was cancelled in tiny-d donnie's first term.
Boo for linking to the Torygraph
Well, it is news because even the Telegraph calls this a Nazi uniform.
Sure, but in appreciative tones
Stephen Miller is squirting all over himself at this one.
All of the fat Space Force dorks are going to look like Göring walking around in this shit. It’s got jackboots ffs. Don’t see these guys mounting horses or motorcycles anytime soon as part of their duties.
"Unveils" or "Shares a post from a rando at 3 a.m."?
I wonder if Hugo Boss is still willing to do uniforms? Really bring it right back into a circle.
The Space Force proved its incompetence when they called their bases "Space Force Base" instead of "Star Base".
Space force isn't about stars it is about the space between the stars, and also about being a boondoggle distraction for this queen who loves the pomp and circumstance of a military force dressed like the SS. It gets his underwhelming chubby just hard enough for Natalie to service it.
Paul Verhoeven entered the chat...
I made a whole ass movie about fascism in space... And yes, it was a warning from the moment the script was being written...
Another article I saw said that these were literally modeled after Neil Patrick Harris' uniform from Starship Troopers.
I am not surprised, he looked so hot 🥵
#nohomo
No one understood that.
Despite Paul being super clear and obvious about it... I always called it the best movie to have ever come out of the Hollywood Studios. 30? years later I still stand with that assessment.
That was real!? I thought it was a joke meme
Real
Lol. Right. Now your going to tell me that the picture of Trump with dyed hair is real?... Oh, shit....
Stupid ass name, for one. Then the nazi aesthetic? Wow...
Yeah, they should've gone with 'Space Squad', better acronym that way
The secret service already exists... And does the job description of the SS.
The Space Force is just a branch of the Air Force that won't ever see battles. They will monitor satellites as they have for the last several decades.
Space Force?
🤣
As if the USA had any sort of capacity for that atm. Just another publicity stunt. Need to stay afloat on the churning media waters. That's what US "government" has come to. Well, not only that unfortunately.
Greetings to Hugo Boss btw, may he turn in his grave.
Hollywood spent 80 years copying and re-imagining nazi aesthetics, now the US government does the same.
Space Force isn't new, it's been around since 2019. Everyone mocked the name back then, but I'm just pointing out its not a new publicity stunt.
There's even a Steve Carrell show about it, though I have no idea if its any good.
It was pretty good iirc. Mostly mocking the military than anything else. Cancelled after two seasons though so probs not worth watching anymore.
The 2 seasons are both decent, but very different. The first was mocking the Trump administration and the Space Force, while the second was a little kinder as the administration had changed. It ended on a cliffhanger.
The first season has a scene with congressional testimony where Carrel's getting grilled on the cost of luxuries for people in space (specifically the extreme cost of Apples iirc), and he actually has a pretty decent speech justifying the occasional luxury for astronauts.
If you don't watch series just because they've been cancelled, it's going to seriously limit your options.
I'm tired of unfinished stories, and this one finished in a cliff hanger.
There are many series that end on unsatisfying notes because platforms like to play games with the numbers and I'm sick of getting invested in a show only for them to cancel it because they merged with another company, or were bought out, or stiffed the actors or whatever. If a show was upfront about making it halfway through the story then stopping, would you bother to watch?
I never really liked series because I felt like they either suck their subject bone dry and then kept at it for a few seasons to really get all the juice out of that dry husk, or just get cancelled because they end up being less successful than Lost.
So, yes it's mostly a broken format. Mini series (like 6 episodes) are much better.
Space Forces in general aren't even a new thing. The Russian Space Force was originally founded in 1992 and re-established in 2015.
We are plenty capable of launching rockets still. We just launched the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope last week. Probably the only decent thing this administration will "let" us engineers do in the next decade.
capability ≠ capacity
Looks like a slop output of "make me a space nazi officer uniform without any actual nazi symbols."
Disney should sue the US government
We did NAZI this comin'
To be fair? We did actually ZI this coming....
You're right I just like saying that lol
Oh, wasn't throwing shade buddy, I also get a giggle every single time.
I think I accidentallyed into early terran universe. How to leave?
What does Space Force even do besides burn money?
People just meed to start linking pictures of that uniform to the similar themed Tom of Finland gay erotica drawings and BOOM! it’ll get dropped like a hot potato.
Remember when SPAAAAACE FOOOORCE, used Star Trek as their logo.
Those were the good ol' days.
Can't wait to see how bad they actually end up looking while being worn because of the corruption graft, cut corners, etc.
The reflecting pool liner of military uniforms lol
Master Race In Outer Space!