Irony

I noticed a while ago that software to support on-line communication is named ironically. An app to support greater productivity is called “Slack”. An app to help collaborators work in harmony is call “Discord”.

It looks as though the U.S. government is taking a page out of this playbook. As any child knows, the primary purpose of a nation’s Department of Defense is to prevent wars.

And now the U.S. is about to change that name to the “Department of War”. Obviously this is meant ironically, since nobody actually wants a war, unless they are a complete idiot. Or unless they derive some sort of sick pleasure from watching large numbers of people die.

Why stop there? In the spirit of irony, let’s change the name of the Department of Health and Human Services to the Department of Disease and Dying.

Oh wait, that’s not ironic at all. That creepy half-dead RFK Jr guy is indeed turning it into the Department of Disease and Dying.

In a rather impressive effort to kill off as many Americans as possible, he is proposing to get rid of vaccines, and therefore to bring back such old favorites as smallpox, polio, diphtheria, measles, and tetanus.

I’m sure there is irony to be found here somewhere.