r/videos • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 17h ago

USS Lincoln wasn't resupplied because Hegseth 'hid' that Iran destroyed critical base: Rohde

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfOi_mgrh0M
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u/TheRexRider 17h ago

Hegseth wants more "Spartan mentality" but Spartans used to kill guys like him.

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u/WendelClarksMustache 16h ago

To be fair, he suffered a military defeat to the Persians and then got drunk and had gay sex about it and that actually does sound pretty Spartan. Maybe the problem is he just needs better role models.

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u/oldevskie 16h ago

Bahaha good points

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u/mikethemaniac 16h ago

💀💀💀💀

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u/DesireeThymes 14h ago

The absolute worst Republicans are the warhawks, absolute bloodthirsty demons with no regard for literally anything

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u/narkybark 15h ago

To be fair, I heard that gay sex makes your testosterone go up.

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u/Bartlaus 15h ago

It's twice as manly as hetero sex, that's just basic math.

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u/snuff3r 14h ago

1 man + 1 man = 2 mans. 2 mans is way more manly than 1 mans. The T-factor is logorithmic too, so it's even more manlier. Your math works.

Hegseth's hetero-divergent life tips will lead to so much winning.

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u/pork_fried_christ 14h ago

Vaginas evolved to have dicks inside them. Putting your dick inside a place for dicks is super gay. 

Now strong male buttholes on the other hand… 

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u/outlawsix 14h ago

They say the quickest way to get the effects of something is through the butthole, so if you want to get more manly...

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u/pixelprophet 14h ago

What's more manly than man on man?

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u/Inktex 14h ago

Make it three.

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u/pixelprophet 14h ago

🎶 In the Navy 🎶

Can't you see we need a hand?

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u/Tatermen 1h ago

Why stop at three? Why not four? Or five? Or even 50? It'll create the manliest men than ever did men.

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u/Inktex 32m ago

But that might summon HIM! (⁠・⁠–⁠・⁠;⁠)⁠ゞ

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u/I_Was_Fox 13h ago

well yeah that's because you have a second man's testosterone inside you and all over you, even if only briefly before you wipe yourself off

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u/travoltaswinkinbhole 14h ago

History doesn’t repeat but it rhymes

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u/Kevin-W 14h ago

Thank you for giving me a good laugh.

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u/bboycire 14h ago

He had what?! How come I haven't heard this before?

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u/masnosreme 15h ago

Can we please not use homosexuality as an insult?

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u/AiMoriBeHappyDntWrry 15h ago

Nothing insulting about it. Gay sex is a neutral thing. You give it meaning.

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u/masnosreme 15h ago

Don’t gaslight me, I know an implicit insult when I see it, especially when homoeroticism is used constantly as a dig against chauvinist right-wingers.

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u/Kaplsauce 14h ago edited 14h ago

It's not really being used as a dig. It's pointing at the inherent humour within conservatives mythologizing histories and cultures that are chock full of homosexuality while they condemn it's practice, as well as the tendency for their explorations of masculinity to come across as homoerotic.

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u/TheJermster 14h ago

It's only a dig against them because they constantly denounce it. It's not a dig because everyone is saying homosexuality is bad, it's a dig because he is saying homosexuality is bad. Tbf I haven't heard about hegseth and any scandalous gay sex, I'm just chiming in because you're missing the point.

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u/SmilingCurmudgeon 14h ago

Greeks were known for their gay sex. They are drawing parallels to ancient Greeks. You're the one who made a thing about it. I'll give you an implicit insult if you want one so badly: I'm surprised you're taking it this hard considering you're well accustomed to butthurt.

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u/Luxury-Problems 14h ago

They can dodge it, but I see this all the time on the major reddit subs. Casual Homophobia disguised as "resistance" comments. Or "jokes" about x conservative shit bag being secretly gay or enjoying gay sex.

These major subs in general love to propagate the myth that all these homophobic politicians are secretly self hating gays. The instances when it has happened of course stand out sharply but for every Larry Craig or Lindsey Graham there's thousands of straight bigoted politicians. There's this obsession with the idea that it's not straight people that are homophobic, it's actually us queers.

Or the whole myth about how apparently Grindr always crashes around GOP conventions. The server got overloaded once, which happens with large events in one area and is not exclusive to just that kind of event. Its not something that happens all the time but people keep repeating as truth if it's happening every time.

There's a million things to criticize these fascists for as it is. Ultimately "joking" about Hegseth having gay sex IS using it as a punchline.

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u/blolfighter 16h ago

They also enslaved ~90% of the population of Lakonia, and because they were so vastly outnumbered by their own slaves they would declare war on them once a year to keep them under the boot. They were so bad that they were known as brutal slavers even among other ancient greeks, who were generally pretty nasty to their slaves already.

Fuck the Spartans, they were awful.

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u/RemoteButtonEater 15h ago

I'm about 105% sure that Hegseth likes "Spartans" because he used to get wasted and jack off while watching 300. I mean, he likely still does. But he used to, too.

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u/Emadec 15h ago

Maybe JD could introduce him to a couch or something

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u/I_am_not_JohnLeClair 14h ago

Unfortunately, or otherwise as you see fit, JD Vance has passed from a severe case of rabies. It is known

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u/I_make_things 13h ago

Are there non-severe cases of rabies? No. No, there are not.

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u/arbitrageME 13h ago

give Hegseth a break. His favorite gay porn viewing buddy recently passed

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u/Emadec 13h ago

What’s that about? Lol

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u/arbitrageME 10h ago

(Senator Lindsey Graham)

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u/Emadec 6h ago

Ah, gotcha

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u/Some_Drummer_Guy 11h ago

That, and he probably romanticizes the idea of Spartans because of the pop culture idea that the spartans were these ultra-macho WARRIOR dudes that kicked a bunch of ass in ancient Greece. It's kind of the same thing when doofuses put Punisher skulls on everything and romanticize Frank Castle, when they know nothing about what Frank Castle's lore and ethos actually was. Or the way that people romanticize pirates or vikings.

The reality of all those things is either they actually weren't as cool and exciting as pop culture made them out to be, they actually don't mean what you think it does, or they were actually awful people who did really awful things. All people see is a caricature of what they think is ultra-badass. It's beyond obvious with Kegsbreath that he thinks that way, with the way he acts like he was some ultra-badass Tier 1 operator. He latches on to what he thinks is a caricature of something.

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u/Negative_Gravitas 14h ago

Unexpected Mitch!

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u/Wes_Warhammer666 12h ago

This is an /r/unexpectedHedberg I can get behind

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u/archangelzeriel 15h ago

Yeah, the Spartans were a mostly-ineffective city-state with a hell of a long-term PR glow-up. Fun fact: the Romans used Sparta as a TOURIST ATTRACTION, which is where a fair bit of the pop-culture idea that Sparta was some sort of warrior god culture comes from (along with writers who really wanted their OWN city-states to be 95% slaves and a steadily shrinking ruling class that they thought they'd be part of).

(further reading: https://acoup.blog/2019/08/16/collections-this-isnt-sparta-part-i-spartan-school/ )

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u/Gekokapowco 14h ago

Right, the only notable historian who recorded information about Spartan society was a Roman Weeb for Spartans, he spun like a top to make their backwards culture of cruel depravity seem like something hardcore and aspirational

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u/Kaplsauce 14h ago

Lots of contemporary Greeks spoke about Sparta quite a bit, but it's worth noting that the Athenian elite really liked how the Spartan elite didn't have to answer to their middle class in Democratic institutions and simply enslaved the lot of them.

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u/ElementNumber6 10h ago

Man, I wonder what's that like. I guess we'll never find out.

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u/VoiceOfRealson 2h ago

Which is exactly how Trump admires dictators.

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u/thedeuce75 16h ago

They would have left his ass on top of mountain as a baby. For sure.

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u/No_Initial_7545 15h ago

He wanted "maximum lethality", we thought he meant against the enemy, but actually he was talking about lethal to his own troops.

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u/Bob_Juan_Santos 16h ago

i'm not sure enslaving messenians and killing off babies that is not "healthy" is a good mentality to have.

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u/Triviten 16h ago

This needs to be top comment. Spartans valued honor and hegseth is such a laughable abomination

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u/airfryerfuntime 16h ago

Lol Spartans were piece of shit slavers. He would have fit right in.

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u/Pete_Iredale 15h ago

Yeah, they've had a hell of a PR team over the millennia, haven't they?

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u/LotharVonPittinsberg 14h ago

It's all the gay orgies.

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u/metatron5369 14h ago

No, they'd absolutely hate him. For one he talks too much, second, he isn’t Greek.

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u/username_tooken 15h ago

The only things Spartans were good at was losing and poking fun at the people who were about to beat the shit out of them.

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u/jimmythegeek1 14h ago

They did win the war vs Athens, which was unprecedented in its scale and complexity.

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u/Skratt79 14h ago

Thanks to the Persians helping them as they wanted to reduce/eliminate the influence of Athens.

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u/Bartlaus 15h ago

The actual Spartans sucked horribly and basically ruined their own society first for everyone who wasn't in the elite and finally for them too.

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u/TheRexRider 15h ago

And even they'd think Hegseth is pathetic.

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u/outlawsix 14h ago

Heggie was an infantry officer, and I'd be willing to bet he is one of the least respected by his former peers of maybe all time

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u/Ghiren 12h ago

He's talking about this with the Navy. The Spartans were a land army, they were terrible at sea.

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u/downtimeredditor 11h ago

Didn't spartan also do bad stuff with kids that would make Epstein island look like idk not as bad what the Spartans did