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My sweet summer child. There are a lot of people in the military that will willingly, happily and with great gusto follow those orders.
Comment by TechnologyRemote7331 at 02/12/2024 at 10:32 UTC
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There are plenty more who will refuse such orders, as well. If pushed, I think the military will suffer from mutinies, desertions, and factionalism. Soldiers aren’t robots, you know. They do have minds of their own, and their opinions and backgrounds are diverse as anyone’s. Many soldiers won’t be keen on the idea of killing or terrorizing their fellow Americans, with officers and generals even less likely to honor such commands.
It’ll be ugly, but it’s not immanently apocalyptic, either.
Comment by pectah at 04/12/2024 at 03:56 UTC
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I don't think so.
The last time Trump was president, they had the national guard help to assist law enforcement with one of the George Floyd protests, and in the video I saw you can hear the crowd chanting "I'm black and I'm proud," and there was a black guardsman mouthing the words while they're chanting.
These people enlisted from communities all across America and come from all sorts of backgrounds who will most likely go back to their communities when their enlistment is up. We swore an oath to the constitution, not to a person.