This is the moment when we find out how many US soldiers have the balls to uphold their oath to the Constitution above all else, and refuse to comply with an obviously illegal order.
this, combined with what pam bomb-me said the other day, would mean that the military could be quartered in your home on suspicion that you are harboring enemies of the established government. that government is also now bypassing representation by taxing the public via tarriffs.
the words evade me. do they need fucking trefoil hats and bright red coats, too?
edit - they’re literally making you pay a tax you didn’t ask for on british tea. i mean, come on
None. They are fucking eunuchs or worse still they totally favor all of this.
I’d be very surprised if any of them actually did.
They are all cut from the same cloth. I personally know veterans that eat up the Rights propaganda while believing everyone else is wrong.
When someone brings up Republican dog whistles they can’t stop themselves from joining in.
All the Right has to do is say “something something America!” and they’ll just follow orders. Literally the way it was conditioned into them.
2020 was the first time in decades that the majority of active duty military voted blue.
That’s an interesting statistic. Do you know where I can learn more about that?
I barely hear a very soft voice echoing away into silence:
“… the military is prohibited to operate on US soil in acts of enforcing law against its citizens …”
And now we’ll find out where the military stands. This is a tipping point.
They fired all the top generals, pretty much, so we will indeed see if our soldiers read and took to heart the oath they swore. They are legally obligated, under the UCMJ, to refuse unlawful orders and fortunately the UCMJ is quite explicit in which orders are to be determined unlawful.
Our military actually operates on a bottom-up model, so firing top generals doesn’t really do much.
That’s concerning, because I’ve found they are less likely to fight against this; many of them are Maga white supremacists who take out their anger that should be against the very government that left them broken, but they lash out against immigrants, lgbtq, woand women. I’ve dealt with the rank-and-file military over the years, that’s how I know. I have little to no respect for the institution now, much less its members. I wanted to join the service but bullshit like this kept me back, and this was pre-Trump.
“There’s a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state. The other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.”
If we could stop accelerating into full-blown fascism, that would be great. Stay safe out there.
