Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth proudly and embarrassingly declared that he only "speaks American" while in a room filled with leaders from Latin America.
    • Rentlar@lemmy.caEnglish
      70·
      2 个月前

      It’s an accurate snapshot of the American executive branch right now… the moron MAGA President asleep at the wheel, the moron MAGA underlings putting on full display their idiotic rendition of fascism.

    • Atomic@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      23·
      2 个月前

      Honestly, the way they’re speaking. I’m fine with them calling it “american”.

      It gives the rest of us a heads up that we should use small words so they can understand.

      • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 个月前

        Or use big words when we don’t want them to understand.

        Not sure if this is common knowledge among English speaking countries, but we in non English speaking countries use English when we don’t want our small kids to understand what we’re saying. 🫣

          • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            2 个月前

            I think we’ll be able to tell when they do. Guess that’s a good time to start learning sign language lol.

            Joking aside, I’ve come to understand that speaking a language in front of your kids that they can’t understand isn’t really a nice thing to do. Makes them feel excluded, and isn’t really cool to do to an adult so shouldn’t be cool to do to a child either.

            Better to talk openly or just wait until you’re alone. 👍 For all the parents out there.

      • kamen@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 个月前

        Honestly, the way they’re speaking. I’m fine with them calling it “american”.

        I’m not a native English speaker, but I’ve always been confused by breaking up sentences like this. My understanding is that if one sentence doesn’t make senses on its own, it shouldn’t be standalone, but rather an introductory to the other one.

        • Atomic@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          2 个月前

          It’s supposed to be a comma, an Oxford comma to be precise. But punctuation and comma are right next to eachother on my phone so, mistakes happen.

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldEnglish
    57·
    2 个月前

    I wonder what his mom thinks of him turning into such a huge douchey asshole.

    Is she surprised, or did she see it coming? Maybe he’s always been so. He’s the kid who made new rules for games and cried when the other kids wouldn’t follow his rules.

    • protist@mander.xyzEnglish
      28·
      2 个月前

      Hegseth’s father was a basketball coach for high schools across Minnesota before retiring in 2019; his mother is an executive business coach who has taught with the Minnesota Excellence in Public Service (MEPS) Series, a fellowship and leadership program for Republican and center-right women.

      She’d probably say “You’ve always been a disappointment to this family. You should’ve gone to war with Iran last year.”

    • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      2 个月前

      Depends on whether she’s opining privately or publicly.

      Privately she’s said some pretty awful things about him that are absolutely deserved. But in public, she recanted and lined up behind him, which is really disappointing. She could have been helpful to stopping his appointment but now she’s party not only to murders happening globally, but the deaths of American reservists who shouldn’t be at war in the first place.

  • markstos@lemmy.worldEnglish
    34·
    2 个月前

    “I only speak one language”… to a room full of mostly bilingual people who also live in (central or south) America. 🤦🤦🤦

  • 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    295·
    2 个月前

    USA is special kind of stupid that this probably gets a huge cheering back home.

    • 7101334@lemmy.worldEnglish
      253·
      2 个月前

      USA is a special kind of stupid, but a majority still oppose war with Iran and… you know… raping children, so Hegseth isn’t too popular on the home front either.

      • Nalivai@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 个月前

        a majority still oppose war with Iran and… you know… raping children

        Yeah, I see, that’s why that majority stopped a pedophile president from having the control of the country, or stopped his clique of rarely sober religious nationalists from starting said war.

        • 7101334@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          2 个月前

          lmao you’re living in a fantasy if you think Americans have the capability to stop the government through instant, direct action

          The only power we have is withholding our labor, and convincing people of the necessity of that when they’re brainwashed by capitalism is not an overnight or even over-4-years affair

          • Nalivai@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            2 个月前

            Hadn’t said you need to necessarily do it instantly and directly, you invented it yourself just so you have something to be snippy about. Deliberate work over time is also good.
            Doesn’t matter though, you’re not doing either. Or you’re so ineffective it’s indistinguishable from not doing anything.

            • 7101334@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              2 个月前

              You know a lot about me for someone who does not know me lmao

              But that’s consistent with the fact that you live in a fantasy.

      • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        2 个月前

        Sounds to me like both of you are correct: most Americans don’t like him but there are still millions of them who cheer him and his kind of populist actions and words.

      • tio_bira@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 个月前

        It’s doesn’t worth much since the majority just keep his ass tight seat waiting for a “miracle” or a “magic savior” for their situation.

      • Glytch@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        2 个月前

        We gotta take our licks on this one. Look what we elected. It’s like a “not all men” thing. Sure it’s not actually all of us, but it’s enough of us to be a problem.

        • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
          12·
          2 个月前

          I’m sorry, I don’t agree with you. I’m from California and we are sitting over here just as aghast as any European nation you could name and larger than some.

          We sent 54 electoral votes for Harris to Washington. You want to show me a European nation that did more than that to stop Trump?

          I understand Americans as a whole have a responsibility. But this guy was trying to make a specific play-by-play call about how Americans are reacting to this back home and I see no logic in sitting quietly and agreeing with that.

  • Vegafjord demcon@lemmy.mlEnglish
    22·
    2 个月前

    This is a nationalistic move. To remove the washington regime away from other english speaking countries and brand itself as something larger. It makes the washington regime seem entitled to landgrabs. It makes washingtonlings feel superior to other english speakers.

    It is as stupid as nationalism is stupid, but nationalism is great for ruling people.

    • 7101334@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 个月前

      California has SO MANY languages

      Is that because indigenous people also realized it’s the best part of America (half joking, mostly not joking), or because of Spanish colonization somehow?

      • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        2 个月前

        It’s actually down to two reasons. Firstly California is probably the first part of North America to see continuous permanent settlement by humans, possibly including Non-Sapien genus Homo but that’s still up for debate. Mostly because everything further north was a frozen shithole on par with Svalbard.

        Secondly the various tribes of the West and especially in California were able to actually recover somewhat from the wave of plague the Spannish unleashed. Mostly because between the Sonora, Mojave, and Great Basin it meant that it took centuries for Europeans to get into California. Though the Russians may have been fucking around Oregon if a rather well traveled Native American from out east is to be believed. Sorry I can’t remember the dudes name or his tribe I think he was from Arkansas.

    • m0darn@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      2 个月前

      My uncle had a relationship with a Dene woman. I had no idea that language family was so widespread! Fascinating.