[Darvon]

Use its real name, the one orange shitler renamed it to: the department of war.

Why the fuck does the department of war get to dictate anything to a private organization?

Why does the constitution say that you have to let the government murder schoolgirls with your tools?

[code_duck]

He doesn’t actually have the authority to rename the department. That would be up to Congress.

[nicwolff]

The "funniest" thing about this is that in any other context, this administration absolutely insists that everyone should be called only by their legal name, not any other name that they prefer because they think it better suits their identity.

[DougN7]

Lol. As if a tiny thing like that would stop him. Have you heard about the tariffs? Or starting a war yesterday?

[5o1ecist]

> renamed it to

Accuracy. He renamed it back to what it was called originally and accurately, in 1789. "Department of Defense" is being used to manipulate the masses into thinking into a different direction.

It was mislabelled to "Department of Defense" post ww2, 1949.

[conartist6]

Sure sounds like congress renamed it. Those damn masses, exercising democratic power.

Trump will put a stop to that!

Loyalty to the constitution third, loyalty to the party second, loyalty to the president first. That's the order of things in a fascist society and Trump has made very exceptionally clear that he thinks that should be the way of it in the US...

[eduction]

Calm down, reactionary.

Yes our democratically appointed government gets to tell contractors what to do not vice versa. I’d much rather that than have the contractors run things. You think Blackwater, Lockheed, Mark Zuckerberg should dictate how our military works? Who is the fascist here?

[rootusrootus]

I'm fine with the Dept of Defense deciding the terms of the contract are not acceptable to them and therefore not doing business with Anthropic. Where it becomes very much not okay is when they retaliate against (or coerce) Anthropic by assigning them the supply chain risk designation. This is not telling a contractor what to do, this is attempting to put them out of business.

[Cytobit]

If they just tell them what to do, then there wouldn't need to be a contract, would there?