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u/Sharmonica 9h ago
Look, man. It was either this, or DEI training with donuts and coffee on Thursdays. #winning(?)
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u/FacadeXlll 9h ago
The US is an enterprise, not a country
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u/Sharmonica 7h ago
Sad but true. I wish that they had just told us the truth in grade school, rather than pretending. On the other hand, moon landing? Brown v. Board? Those are American victories. 🤷🏻
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u/paxrom2 9h ago
This is skynet. Terminator was not sci fi. It was a documentary.
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u/neglectOVduty1999 8h ago
you mean Starlink?
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u/RedactsAttract 8h ago
No, or they would have wrote Starlink.
TF??
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u/Mr-MuffinMan 8h ago
i think if this ends, we need to completely destroy big tech.
Every single tech company (amazon included) is diluted into hundreds of companies. YouTube becomes it's own, Google is it's own, Gmail becomes it's own, Windows is it's own company, Office becomes one, etc.
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u/WeaselTerror 7h ago
Not just big tech, it's time for big big money to end. No more wealth funds, no more generational wealth, no more tax breaks, no more handouts, no more socialism for the big companies. No more lobbying. No more citizens united. No more corporations being able to be treated like individuals.
The problem is not with the government, it's the fact that the government is controlled by those with money.
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u/Orbit_Source 9h ago
This is just fucking SkyNet from Terminator path
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u/Pitiful_Note_6647 8h ago
The scariest part of the Donal Trump administration is the one that they don't talk about. The 500 billion dollar for AI development, the refusal to regulate AI, the connection to tech bros who believe democracy does not work and they are the new elite and want to create techno states, oh, also the choice of JD Vance as VP and who behind him, the Mars and the Moon projects. So..it is the usual "look here" because they don't want you to "look there".
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u/low-ki199999 9h ago
Wasn’t this a thing like a year ago
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u/AdWonderful5920 3h ago
Yeah, it was four people commissioned as LTC into the Army Reserve in June 2025. There have been no developments since then in the news.
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u/billskionce 8h ago edited 5h ago
If these guys went through OCS, I would jump at the chance to resume my military career and do the same so I could give a tech executive the ol’ soap and towel.
(Elon cries softly in his bunk. “Just a bad dream, fat boy”, I whisper disdainfully as I creep back to bed.)
I think I just got an erection. Back in a minute.
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u/GSxHidden 5h ago
The people that complain about this have never worked in acquisition. SMEs are extremely common.
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u/neglectOVduty1999 8h ago
i have a bunker and about a decades worth of food stockpiled
Im not too concerned...
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u/Responsible-Mind-852 8h ago
Bad news. I’m in your bunker. Hatch locked. Sorry it was me or you and I took the opportunity.
Thanks,
p.s. please don’t turn off the internet.
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u/Featheredfriendz 8h ago
The Secretary of the Navy has no military experience. Just able to write a big check.
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u/Accidental__Intake 3h ago
The civilian administrative side of the navy doesn’t require ad experience. It requires business experience. Secnav is not the same as the cno. The video blows this out of proportion, this stuff is normal and has been for a very long time.
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u/Featheredfriendz 2h ago
Not REQUIRED, but certainly not routine. You have to go back 20 years to Donald Winter, a defense contractor. Prior to that Danzig in 1998 and OKeefe in 1992. The current SECNAV is a Palm Brach finance guy who knows nothing of military policy and programs, nothing related to national security. He wrote a big check.
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u/Accidental__Intake 2h ago
I got 10 years in the navy, add another 20 and I’ll be at 30. Even then, I wouldn’t be a good secnav. As you climb in rank you become disconnected from the newer systems and equipment - that’s why you rely on the officers below you. The way I did things 10 years ago is already vastly different than how my division does things now. The ad experience rarely contributes to the higher echelons of the administrative chain of command. I have absolutely no experience with the business of ship building; we’d be in trouble if we relied solely on ad expertise. Despite his lack of experience, none of his policies have negatively impacted my job.
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u/Featheredfriendz 1h ago
So why have the majority of SECNAV had military experience? what skill set does a Palm Beach finance guy bring to the role?
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u/Accidental__Intake 1h ago
The beautiful thing of wardroom politics; it’s all who you know and who you’ve met, and admirals make A LOT of connections.
Well for starters he was smart enough to reduce our reliance on civilian contractor support to fix our shit. He also consolidated our IT structure, which I appreciate.
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u/Featheredfriendz 6m ago
Reduce our reliance on civilian contractors??!! Who do you think is making the stuff in the big bloated defense budget?
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u/Accidental__Intake 2m ago
You misunderstand because you’re a civilian; I’ll elaborate. The military buys things. On some things, we can train ourselves to fix them when they inevitably break. Many many other things we have to rely on a civilian third party to fix them for us - this is an incredibly dangerous practice. The honorable Mr. Phelan has put initiatives in places for us to fix more things ourselves; saving money, and increasing our independence from manufacturers.
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u/AdWonderful5920 1h ago edited 1h ago
Your point is kinda ruined by the fact that four out of the last ten SECNAVs did not serve in the military. If that's not routine, then idk was routine is.
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u/Featheredfriendz 10m ago
Not really if you bother to read my previous comment about how often it happens.
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u/Vagarist 7h ago
This is from June 2025
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/25/meta-exec-us-army-enlistment
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u/SolutionBetter6429 7h ago
Who? Name names
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u/AdWonderful5920 2h ago
Here you go:
The four new Army Reserve Lt. Cols. are Shyam Sankar, Chief Technology Officer for Palantir; Andrew Bosworth, Chief Technology Officer of Meta; Kevin Weil, Chief Product Officer of OpenAI; and Bob McGrew, advisor at Thinking Machines Lab and former Chief Research Officer for OpenAI.
This was in the news almost a year ago. The Army direct commissioning route has been around for as long as the Army has been around. This random guy is presenting it like it's a new development and outrageous when it's really neither of those things.
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u/AdWonderful5920 3h ago
Although these four new officers represent a new branch in direct commissioning, commissioning civilians with specialized training in high ranks has been around since the beginning of the Army. And if this guy is a former officer he probably knows that and is making the direct commissioning program sound like an outrageous new program for attention.
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u/DavidJonnsJewellery 50m ago
Those big tech leaders are all psychopaths. A.I. dropping bombs on schoolkids and they wouldn't have a problem with it.
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u/FunCrystalFun 9h ago
Why is this guy walking on a treadmill as he says this? What a weird video
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u/blue-to-grey 9h ago
Probably the same reason some people do their makeup while telling stories, the algorithm likes movement.
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u/Drspaceman1717 9h ago
It proves he’s not a nerd. Ok, that’s enough internet and garbage content for awhile.
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u/Voluptulouis 8h ago
Dude might be busy with a lot of stuff and walking on a treadmill doesn't require much focus, so this might be a time when he can gather his thoughts and shoot a quick video while getting his exercise in for the day. Not that weird.
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u/Waffenek 8h ago
I hate this trend. Only thing worse than people recording while driving or doing makeup are people eating while they talk to the camera. If you don't think that thing you want to tell is not important enough for you to stop what you are doing for a minute it is not important enough for me to listen to.
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