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[–] [S] 84 points 1 year ago (15 children)

This is nuts. You sure there's no civil war in US?

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  • [–] 48 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Need General's and commanders to step up. Defend the constitution, not the orange mango loser

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    I have been wondering what the fuck the military leaders have been doing this whole time. I thought they had honour and shit, and cared about the idea of America. They literally signed up to fight for it.

    Anyway, not American but hoping those folk have a come-to-Jesus moment soon…

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Generations of "service guarantees socialistic benefits equivalent to every other first world country" led to people overwhelmingly joining for personal gain, instead of "service" or "sacrifice".

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That makes sense since all I ever hear about is how well veterans are treated. Who wouldn’t want in?!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Especially when your only alternative is poverty or medical/education debt.

    Also the Trump admin have been hard at work implementing Project2025 from day 1, which involved purging all of the patriot military brass they possibly can. The average US general likely never even contemplated the thought of staging a domestic coup their entire careers, then they got canned; the ones that remain are probably wondering how they could possibly pull off a coup when the forces they oversee contain a significant number of brainwashed individuals.

    The American MIC may simply be too large, distributed, and bureaucratic for any type of coup to occur.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I'd imagine if they're going to act then they're waiting for some line to be crossed.

    Not sure where that line would be but.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Maybe a violent Insurrection trying to kill Congress and steal the country?

    Oh yeah...

    There is no line.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • [–] 78 points 1 year ago*

    This isn't the civil war stage. These deployments are to 1) normalize a military dictatorship and 2) force the antifascist non-loyalists to resign; from disgust of being pulled away from their families, day jobs, and lives to be used as political pawns.

    All of project 2025 is about purging antifascist non-loyalists from every government institution. There's a much greater likelihood that the dictatorship and domestic authoritarianism will succeed when the dictatorship isn't being sabotaged by real patriots from within.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago

    US Troop Deployment Increases In Country

    Oh hey I've seen this episode before.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Taco keeps on having America punch itself in the nuts.

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  • Those are expensive, put them back!!!

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    How are 35,000 people actually okay with doing this... :(

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  • Guess it's time for another surge

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    And this is not full escalation yet, either. I bet there will be another «Reichstag fire», very soon.

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    [–] 31 points 1 year ago

    35k is a lot.
    Peak Iraq was 170k.
    So, the US is at 25% of the deployment in Iraq .

    Approximately 150,000 US soldiers were deployed in 2003. This number increased to its peak in 2007 of over 170,000 soldiers, three years after Bush claimed ‘Mission Accomplished’ in Iraq on 1 May 2003.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iraq-war-bush-twentieth-anniversary-b2302031.html

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    So there are 17,500 American soldiers actively 'deployed' in the US?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    "Careful there, friend... Didn't you get the message what happens to comedians around here? Or do we need to take out John Oliver next to teach you a lesson about what happens when you joke about 'Murica?"

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    35,000 boots on the ground 5 upvotes on Lemmy

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    And he's making sure that they aren't out long enough to actually get paid the benefits of it

    He's ripping off his own goons

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Title is worded in a way that suggests it’s unusual for the army to be deployed within own country borders.

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    [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Is that 35000 boots or 35000 pairs of boots?

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