Comment by SparklingPseudonym on 02/12/2024 at 06:17 UTC

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View submission: What Trump Doesn’t Understand About the Military - Trump doesn’t seem to understand the arrangement that makes the U.S. both democratic and powerful.

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This naive, optimistic, “things will work out” way of thinking is how we got to where we are today. They take advantage of this and proceed on. Wars are lost to apathy.

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Comment by ganashi at 02/12/2024 at 12:57 UTC

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This isn’t a “things will work out” hope. We were trained to not follow unlawful orders during basic training, and cleaning house at the General Officer level is going to cause enough chaos that they might just not be able to use the army. There’s going to be people refusing this shit at every level causing chaos for months, if not years.

Comment by pectah at 02/12/2024 at 06:53 UTC

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Excuse me? I'm sharing my perspective of being a person who served in the military. I doubt any active-duty personnel would be used in a policing role because that stuff is not our mission.

Comment by frongles23 at 02/12/2024 at 17:58 UTC

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When and in what branch did you serve?