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Biophilic

(6,868 posts)
Thu Jul 16, 2026, 06:38 PM 7 hrs ago

I'm a bit confused.

Now granted I’m an 80 year old woman who never served in our armed forces, but I keep having this confusion. As far as I’ve been able to tell from reading and listening the war in Ukraine has pretty much demonstrated the use of technology, ie drones being superior to throwing men with weapons at each other. If that’s true how come our secretary of defense/war is so focused on creating the master soldier race with oodles of testosterone. Aren’t we a few years behind?

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I'm a bit confused. (Original Post) Biophilic 7 hrs ago OP
Maybe we can put testosterone in the drones? Yeah, that's the ticket...ha ha... wcmagumba 7 hrs ago #1
I don't think they would look as good as Hegseth's hot men. Biophilic 6 hrs ago #9
A Testosterdrone? NewLarry 5 hrs ago #21
Oh MAN, that's a GOOD one! calimary 4 hrs ago #33
Made me wonder... 2naSalit 7 hrs ago #2
Me too. Maybe they will include it for wnylib 4 hrs ago #28
They live in movies and tv shows. No reality. Srkdqltr 6 hrs ago #3
Drones are too cheap to produce. War materiel pays the defense contractors, shareholders, lobbyists bucolic_frolic 6 hrs ago #4
Geese, I didn't even think of that. Biophilic 5 hrs ago #18
Recommended. H2O Man 6 hrs ago #5
And isn't that scary. Biophilic 6 hrs ago #7
Scary and pathetic. H2O Man 6 hrs ago #12
Well put! KPN 5 hrs ago #16
Or he might be looking for an excuse to reject gays from the military? FakeNoose 4 hrs ago #31
Because he's a dipshit. n/t flvegan 6 hrs ago #6
Hegseth is competng with ICE on who can be the meanest. ananda 6 hrs ago #8
Yet the drones are not a stand-alone system. Norrrm 6 hrs ago #10
Elon is an ass but he's not stupid... 3825-87867 5 hrs ago #24
And we get behinder every year Tesha 6 hrs ago #11
Kegsbreath is so 20th century. fierywoman 6 hrs ago #13
One's ability to fly a drone has nothing to do with testosterone, a beard, tattoos.. ashredux 6 hrs ago #14
Very simple explanation, Biophilic SCantiGOP 6 hrs ago #15
US/God's warriors relogic 5 hrs ago #17
I think it's a mental illness. 58Sunliner 5 hrs ago #19
Because he is a fascist Matthew28 5 hrs ago #20
Intimidation ZDU 5 hrs ago #22
We are not behind. warmfeet 5 hrs ago #23
Domestic use Cirsium 5 hrs ago #25
He wants to play soldier with them swong19104 5 hrs ago #26
He's an idiot. But even non-idiots have a bad habit of fighting the last war. paleotn 5 hrs ago #27
I bet they don't require testosterone testing of their drones either. ToxMarz 4 hrs ago #29
He's also checking for women and transgenders that he can boot. Sogo 4 hrs ago #30
Still need people for crowd control IbogaProject 4 hrs ago #32
Ukrainian drone roams freely over downtown Moscow in daylight... Norrrm 3 hrs ago #34

Biophilic

(6,868 posts)
9. I don't think they would look as good as Hegseth's hot men.
Thu Jul 16, 2026, 07:05 PM
6 hrs ago

And looks are so important when sending men and women off to die.

wnylib

(27,112 posts)
28. Me too. Maybe they will include it for
Thu Jul 16, 2026, 09:00 PM
4 hrs ago

ICE agents, too. They are boots on the ground.

From their aggressive behavior, who knows? Maybe ICE is already getting testosterone to make them so "testy."

So maybe some menopausal women who are taking hormone replacement pills can make friends with ICE agents and slip some estrogen into their coffee. Call them thevsenior women's resistance brigade.



bucolic_frolic

(56,560 posts)
4. Drones are too cheap to produce. War materiel pays the defense contractors, shareholders, lobbyists
Thu Jul 16, 2026, 06:51 PM
6 hrs ago

far better. The economy would stop if we switched to drones, and dividend payments in Republican investment accounts would dwindle.

H2O Man

(79,554 posts)
5. Recommended.
Thu Jul 16, 2026, 06:55 PM
6 hrs ago

The answer is that the fella who is the secretary of rage is for all practical purposes a little boy inhabiting a cinematic concept, no different that a five year old playing any number of fictional super heroes.

H2O Man

(79,554 posts)
12. Scary and pathetic.
Thu Jul 16, 2026, 07:25 PM
6 hrs ago

I remember back in 1974, in one of the cassette tapes RubinCarter sent me (when we were able to commnicate that way) when Rubin Carter was telling me about inmates existing in cinematic concepts after the Friday night movie in Rahway state prison. He said they would pretend to be Shaft one week, Superfly the next. The fella in the rage department's mind is in prison.

FakeNoose

(43,497 posts)
31. Or he might be looking for an excuse to reject gays from the military?
Thu Jul 16, 2026, 09:36 PM
4 hrs ago

It seems like maybe he believes that gay men have lower testosterone levels? I don't know if that's true, but if he believes it, he might try to use that as an excuse.

Norrrm

(6,316 posts)
10. Yet the drones are not a stand-alone system.
Thu Jul 16, 2026, 07:09 PM
6 hrs ago

They operate with Elon's Starlink.

Like Trump removing support from those he does not like, Musk could remove Starlink's capability.

I believe America has its own satellite systems for the same capabilities.

3825-87867

(2,073 posts)
24. Elon is an ass but he's not stupid...
Thu Jul 16, 2026, 08:30 PM
5 hrs ago

Shut down Starlink, Zelenskyy could lose Ukraine. There would be no where on earth Musk would be safe regardless of how many guards he has. Musk could never stay locked up in his fortress of solitude forever and sooner or later even he realizes something would happen...probably first to someone close to him.
Life isn't a storybook.

ashredux

(3,027 posts)
14. One's ability to fly a drone has nothing to do with testosterone, a beard, tattoos..
Thu Jul 16, 2026, 07:46 PM
6 hrs ago

Some fat guy in a darkened office in Florida can fly a. drone that will take out a of the enemy…. And he may weigh 250 pounds ….. welcome to the new warfare soldier

SCantiGOP

(14,808 posts)
15. Very simple explanation, Biophilic
Thu Jul 16, 2026, 07:46 PM
6 hrs ago

Our Armed Forces are being run by a Fox News charlatan, not a trained and experienced military professional.
God help us if we were to get involved in a war with a real opponent.

relogic

(467 posts)
17. US/God's warriors
Thu Jul 16, 2026, 07:52 PM
5 hrs ago

With these testosterone-jacked-up, rugged marlboro prancer show ponies there is the notion that their elastic doctrines permit them getting high on the highest grade of hormone and it ain’t the Holy Ghost.

Matthew28

(1,951 posts)
20. Because he is a fascist
Thu Jul 16, 2026, 08:13 PM
5 hrs ago

that believes that men should act like spartans.I am serious...

I agree with the drones being far better then a dead father or son. But most of their hatred of trans people is literally the same shit as sparta had and defined their society.

warmfeet

(3,386 posts)
23. We are not behind.
Thu Jul 16, 2026, 08:29 PM
5 hrs ago

This reality, our reality, is quite different than the reality some 35% are experiencing. Confusion is something I would be very happy with right now. I am entirely puzzled by what is going on now.

Cirsium

(4,361 posts)
25. Domestic use
Thu Jul 16, 2026, 08:33 PM
5 hrs ago

He is creating the master soldier race with oodles of testosterone to use against us.

paleotn

(23,295 posts)
27. He's an idiot. But even non-idiots have a bad habit of fighting the last war.
Thu Jul 16, 2026, 08:45 PM
5 hrs ago

They simply default to what they know which is many times outdated. And you care correct. There has been a complete ground shift in warfare. The concept of an aerial minefield using hundreds of drones to down jet aircraft, cruise missiles and other drones has now become a thing. Something few ever dreamed of a short 10 years ago. Ukraine has worked on it. There's rumors the Iranians are deploying the same. It doesn't take much to down a jet aircraft. Simply ingesting a drone through an engine air intake is all that's required. Although a little bit of explosives increases the probabilities. It's like flak with a brain. Damn scary times.

https://nextgendefense.com/ukraine-airborne-minefield-drones/

IbogaProject

(6,226 posts)
32. Still need people for crowd control
Thu Jul 16, 2026, 09:41 PM
4 hrs ago

Last edited Fri Jul 17, 2026, 01:06 AM - Edit history (1)

And worse schemes. Yes IBM's punch cards were a tool in the holocost but the work was done by men and women working together for total evil. This high-t thing lines up w the push to expand the military to "fight communism at home" which the admin has openly said this week.

Norrrm

(6,316 posts)
34. Ukrainian drone roams freely over downtown Moscow in daylight...
Thu Jul 16, 2026, 09:54 PM
3 hrs ago

Ukrainian drone roams freely over downtown Moscow in daylight...

Embarrassing.



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