Maggoty @ Maggoty @lemmy.world

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This whole thing is a joke right? A put up between the newspaper, cops, and park management?

Somebody has to give them orders. It's not like it happens magically. And we've spent 70 years building an officer corps willing to tell presidents no. And at the lower levels I'm not going to deny he'll find people willing to do his dirty work. The military is a reflection of society. But that works both ways and there's a giant difference between a military willing to act as a whole and having to find people willing to follow orders.

I'm a lot closer to being an expert than most people and that's a war crime.

They also require a high school degree and an entrance exam. And officers are sourced solely from University graduates.

This is not your grandpa's military.

I'd love to see a source for that. Afaik nobody did an active duty poll this time. And in 2020 the military voted blue.

It's already happened, last time Trump was president. The Joint Chiefs told him no to his face.

Honestly, even when they were ideologues, they're 17 or 18 years old and have been fed Americana mythology their entire lives. Many of them didn't realize it was all bullshit until later. But they do usually realize it.

That's not really true. He has the unwavering support of really old veterans who got the same fox news pill as the other boomers. The serving military voted blue in 2020. The Military Times elected not to do a poll in 2024...

There are very vocal service members who support him but the military as a whole does not and is not a fan of Hegseth fucking around in the DoD either. For example one published plan has us divesting our only mobile firepower platforms (strykers), just as the war in Ukraine is making everyone else want them. And F-47 did not go unnoticed either. The Air Force went from a study wondering if we needed NGAD to selecting a vendor without a flyoff and naming it. That thing is going to get ditched January 21st 2029. Then Hegseth is fucking around with physical fitness tests which is actually promotions, schools, and unit qualifications. This is making the most deadly parts of military dislike him. For example we've had women working with Delta for 20 years. First of all Delta isn't giving them up, 20 years ago women were officially banned from combat and that didn't stop them. Second it just conditions them to be anti-administration. So when they get ordered to go get an American "insurgent" who held a sign outside a Tesla dealership one too many times, they may just refuse.

If they're willing to take democratic signatures then Trump can't stop it.

Why? Isn't that the easiest lowest hanging fruit possible?

If I'm a politician and I'm putting tariffs in place, the one place getting annihilated by a 1,000% tariff is the place I've already sanctioned into the ground. Is that performative? Maybe. Would it prevent headlines like this? Yep.

Makes you wonder what's going on in the swamp.

Nope, participation in a system that's forced on you isn't consent. But you can choose to do something to change the system. Get active, march, vote, organize.

Oh no. No. No. No. The players make the rules. Shifting focus to the game being bad is a deflection as old as time.

Right, so you just chose to be offended at something you knew wasn't about you.

That's usually a house. But yeah if they have a million in a 401k then they're part of the problem. Those funds are sitting in investment companies like Blackrock fueling the primacy of Wall Street over everything.

Jokes on them. I got a hard time for a formation in hell.

You could look at it as them building future US military bases...

I had to check the sub. I was loading the proverbial shotgun. You got me OP. :)

Your treating this as if the same people are voting different ways. It's usually much more along the lines of voters staying home one election and voting in another.

Edit - autocorrect got naughty!