Eric BeckmanDec 2
What warrior ethos? Some fucked up masculinity that encompasses firing precision munitions at defenseless targets like fishing boats.
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Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/11/28/hegseth-kill-them-all-survivors-boat-strike/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social

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Not just masculinity, or at least not just men, as Megyn "Santa can't be Black" Kelly joins to the chat to celebrate sensesless violence.
I was just reading about lynchings as acts of White freedom in Jefferson Cowie's *Freedom's Dominion*. Sadly, very relevant. Quotation here:
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CSA actions in defense of slavery relevant, too:

US Major Gen. D. Hunter to Jefferson Davis, 23 Apr. 1863
You say you are fighting for liberty. Yes you are fighting for liberty: liberty to keep four millions of your fellow-beings in ignorance and degradation;–liberty to separate parents and children, husband and wife, brother and sister;–liberty to steal the products of their labor, exacted with many a cruel lash and bitter tear,–liberty to seduce their wives and daughters, and to sell your own children into bondage;–liberty to kill these children with impunity, when the murder cannot be proven by one of pure white blood. This is the kind of liberty–the liberty to do wrong–which Satan, Chief of the fallen Angels, was contending for when he was cast into Hell.

https://www.freedmen.umd.edu/Hunter2.html

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Commander of the Department of the South to the Confederate President, April 23, 1863

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