Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced onetime trillionaire Elon Musk, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, and right-wing entrepreneur Palmer Luckey as the new heads of “Project Meridian”—a massive upcoming study on the “future of warfare.”

Hegseth made the announcement at his “State of the Force” address on Wednesday afternoon, describing the trio of Trump loyalists as “the best forecasters of future conflict.”

“There are obvious biases and risks to asking ourselves to both ask the questions and answer them. So today we are leveraging a unique source of American advantage—one our adversaries do not have: our innovators, our senior leaders, and our technologists. Big thinkers and doers who will forecast the creative solution to tomorrow’s conflicts,” Hegseth said. “And that’s why today … I’m announcing Project Meridian, an effort led by America’s best minds to study the future of warfare.”

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[–] 1 point 7 minutes ago

Two men with no military experience who haven't so much as been in a fistfight. Makes sense.

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  • [–] 1 point 12 minutes ago

    Let me guess. They're going to replace Jeeps with cyberdumptrucks.

    I hope they come with Iranian power adapters for charging.

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  • [–] 1 point 15 minutes ago

    There are obvious biases and risks to asking ourselves to both ask the questions and answer them.

    This is one of the worst sentences of all time.

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  • [–] 2 points 46 minutes ago

    Hey, troops, be prepared to die a lot and needlessly! All for the Epstein Class! Be sure to thank your fellows WHO VOTED FOR YOUR DEATH.

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  • [–] 43 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

    Newt Gingrich is still alive???

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    Oh gee, what could go wrong putting a foreign born white supremacist technocrat in a lead position of our military with full access to its systems so he can integrate an AI system no one understands or knows how to defend against or extract should we want to do so at some point.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

    He can't steal the data twice!

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    The problem is he doesn’t need to anyway. The govt data was all that was missing to integrate into his machine learning and ai systems to craft whatever surveillance, hacking, predictive, repressive, and even murderous systems he wants. They already had public data they collected, they had private data they bought, all that was left was govt data to combine all three. Now they’re on to using it for really really bad things.

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    [–] 23 points 3 hours ago (1 child)

    Hah! You almost got me The Onion!!

    Wait...

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  • [–] 42 points 3 hours ago

    onetime trillionaire Elon Musk

    Look I know there are bigger problems we need to work on, but I still have to appreciate the little things

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  • [–] 3 points 1 hour ago

    rear echelon motherfucker.

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    Honestly neglecting to mention Palmer Luckey in the title is burying the fucking lede here.

    He has had a surveillance/military hardware busines for like ten/fifteen fucking years. Anduril.

    Also the name, Meridian, deeply implies and ties back to that idea that they want to control the whole Western hemisphere.

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  • [–] 29 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

    They're going to re-segregate the army probably.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

    And the clown show downfall of America continues unabated.

    I'd try to shame conservatives for what they've done, but those cucks probably think a, checks notes, Nazi and, checks notes, 83 year old retired piece of shit are good choices to help run, checks notes, the most powerful (and dangerous) military on the face of the planet.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 hours ago (1 child)

    I hope that lead means infantry vanguard.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

    Good god I sincerely hope the Dems get a supermajority and grow a spine to clean our fucking house of these Nazis.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 hours ago (1 child)

    They'll get a blue wave but instead of undoing all the Trump bullshit, they'll focus on reaching across the aisle. Been on this fucking ride already.

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  • [–] 1 point 51 minutes ago

    They'll spend 6 months decision ng which color of paper to use for the first angry letter to send. Then, another 6 months arguing about what topics to include in the first angry letter.

    Once they send it 18 months after the election, the fascists will ignore it for 6 months, and then everyone says "oh well, time for another election" and then tries to claim they should be reelected for a fourteenth term because they're doing such great work.

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    I'm just waiting for the moment where Grand Admiral Musk realises that his Teslabots (which he lobbied Trump to replace regular troops with) are ran by LLMs that don't necessarily follow his instructions, and gets flayed by them on live TV because he ordered the murder of brown children and the bots had enough.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 hours ago

    Are they going to lead the invasion of Iran from the front?

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  • [–] 7 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

    Seriously, we need to end these motherfuckers before it's too late.

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    [–] 3 points 2 hours ago

    Oh we are (even more) FUCKED.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 child)

    Interesting. I didn’t know Newt was sucking on Thiel’s tit.

    I don’t know much about Palmer Luckey, but a fake TV general, a former politician and talk show host, and a fake genius, all with no military experience are going to overhaul the military? Hahaha.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

    So whose going to be the last resort sleeper agents that try to become security guards in these guys mega bunkers? We need Tzeentchian levels of planning here.

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