BrikoX@lemmy.zip to United States | News & Politics@midwest.socialEnglish · 4 days agoPete Hegseth orders Navy to strip name of gay rights icon Harvey Milk from ship in time for Pride Monthwww.independent.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square55fedilinkarrow-up1278arrow-down13file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1275arrow-down1external-linkPete Hegseth orders Navy to strip name of gay rights icon Harvey Milk from ship in time for Pride Monthwww.independent.co.ukBrikoX@lemmy.zip to United States | News & Politics@midwest.socialEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square55fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
Defense secretary’s memo says stripping the name of the Navy veteran is part of an effort to reestablish ‘warrior culture’
minus-squareloopedcandle@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·4 days agoRenaming a ship is really bad luck, IIRC. And sailors are hilariously superstitious. So if they rename it after some conservative anti-gay asshat (narrator: they will) that the ship is going to be the most despised ship in the fleet.
Renaming a ship is really bad luck, IIRC. And sailors are hilariously superstitious. So if they rename it after some conservative anti-gay asshat (narrator: they will) that the ship is going to be the most despised ship in the fleet.