Comment by ChiefsHat on 02/02/2025 at 18:38 UTC

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View submission: If a U.S. president attempted to dismantle democracy or impose authoritarian rule, how would the military likely respond? Would they prioritize their oath to the Constitution or follow orders from leadership?

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There is something deeply wrong with how information is processed in this country if you know a girl who didn't know this.

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Comment by schistkicker at 02/02/2025 at 19:01 UTC

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We're here discussing this stuff in this space because we pay attention and we seek out this information. There are vast swaths of Americans who only get their information from siloed social media streams or influencers, or get it secondhand from their friends/family/colleagues who get misinformed by Fox (or worse).

What Musk and his underlings are doing in the Treasury right now is alarming; I strongly suspect that there are plenty of information silos/algorithms that are either glossing it over or just not reporting on it at all.

Comment by FilibusterFerret at 02/02/2025 at 20:09 UTC

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There are lots more where she came from.