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I agree with this; it’s pathetic to see how easily people down the command chain will just follow orders with minimal pushback. The water / dam release debacle in California is a good example; it was absolutely nuts and could actually have killed people, and the Army Corps of Engineers was just like “sure.”
Comment by Brock_Hard_Canuck at 02/02/2025 at 17:12 UTC
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I agree with this; it’s pathetic to see how easily people down the command chain will just follow orders with minimal pushback.
Look how many people were "Just following orders" during the Holocaust.
People love to follow orders from an authority figure, even if things might feel a little "off".
Comment by Maskirovka at 02/02/2025 at 21:15 UTC
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Army Corps of Engineers was just like “sure.”
If it's not an illegal order, what do you expect? The types of orders OP is talking about would be illegal, and everyone has an obligation to refuse those.
Comment by forjeeves at 03/02/2025 at 05:40 UTC
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They will follow orders
Comment by Psyc3 at 02/02/2025 at 12:17 UTC*
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This is literally how the military is designed. You have no authority if people start questioning your orders.
America spends most of its time bombing brown people for some cheap oil. That doesn't work if people question what you are doing.
When there is a just reason to turn up, say stopping a genocide in Palestine, Sudan, Rwanda, or war crimes in Ukraine, they don't turn up. No oil there.
Last war you had you spend 25 years achieving literally nothing in Afghanistan, it all fell to pieces on the notion the US was leaving before the planes even got off the ground.