[dpkirchner]

There is no such thing. That's a fantasy term used by deluded people to signal a particular virtue.

[b112]

I keep seeing DOW everywhere, and honestly had no idea it wasn't a legal namechange yet (or ever).

There's even a webpage for it.

So cut the guy some slack. No one knows wtf is actually going on these days.

[zzzeek]

pretty sure the Constitution doesn't say anything about "make a webpage" as some secret way for the Executive branch to overrule Congress

are you aware of how inept and corrupt the current Executive branch is ?

[mindslight]

With a malevolent agent in the bully pulpit deliberately swamping the American zeitgeist with hostile nonsense ("flood the zone with shit"), it has become every American's duty to be on guard to avoid propagating the regime's bullshit. We are indeed at war, an information war of the US elites against We The People. So buck up.

[mindslight]

... signal a particular vice. It's vice signalling. We generally think of war as bad and try to avoid it, most especially the people tasked with fighting said wars.

Nothing has changed about the performative-ness, in fact if anything it's gotten more performative and hollow. They just signal vices rather than virtues, so a bunch of rightist-flavored-Lenin's useful idiots think it is fresh or effective or anti-"woke" or at least different.

[jvandreae]

Ah, yes, the Orwellian newspeak that is the phrase "Department of Defense" is something worth protecting. What next, the Ministry of Truth?

I don't really give any weight to what a leftist considers a vice or a virtue.

[croes]

Pretty ironic that this is coming from the same people that are opposing preferred pronouns and like to deadname people.

[LordDragonfang]

Also by the people that just work there(, man).

I mean, as dumb as it is, there is a certain musicality to hearing someone with a southern accent sardonically call it the dee-oh-dubya.