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I’m simultaneously baffled and infuriated by all of the people who are “resigning in protest”.
Like, holy fuck, why are you making it easy for them? Dig your heels in. Nickel-and-dime the bureaucracy. Lean into the minutiae. Get the noncoms to maliciously comply on as many points as possible. Intentionally be inefficient. Throw sand in the gears, and sugar in the gas tank. Drop a bolt somewhere, and “forget” to spot it on FOD walkdown. Over torque. Under torque. Cross thread with ugga dugga. Misalign. There are a SHITLOAD of places where intentional inefficiency can be employed in a defensible fashion. Misinterpret orders. Don’t correct typos and errors, and just do whatever as-written, with minimum effort lip-service. Make it hard for them to take over. Genuinely, why are these approaches not being used more aggressively? I’m completely fucking flummoxed.
Honestly, dishonorable discharge technically allows for a death sentence. If Trump orders a general to shoot American civilians and he refuses, that's treason, so can be death sentence'd. I'd want to avoid the situation too.
Now if that ACTUALLY happened, at least which ever general with balls gets unalived is going to be a martyr and hopefully a symbol for the resistance. So it takes one guy to take that bullet and the country may never be the same. So I hope someone will do that instead of quitting.
Quit it. You're not some vapid influencerati on YouTube
I forgot "vapid influencerati" even use that term, I first heard it on reddit years ago when someone thought it was funny. I swear there was more funny/interesting context to the post that I don't remember anymore. It was before mass censorship of "bad words" was so prolific. People were still using "kill", "fuck", "shit" etc.
You only need to follow lawful orders. Ordering the murder of civilians is not lawful. Because the act of murdering civilians is illegal.
We're talking Trumpistan, not the United States of America tho.
Well in this made up world they can just shoot trump too right? Why are we all acting like the law is already over?
I mean, look around? Not saying people are not at risk of the law, but the rule of law is dead in the us.
And yet judges keep ruling and the administration backs down. The concentration camp in Florida, closed. I'm not saying they aren't flouting it left and right, but it is still there and people are recording what they are doing for when they get thrown out.
You still have ice out masked in force, still have camps, still have tarriffed the world, still have open bribery, and still have chilling lawsuits against media. All of which was ruled not cool by judges at some point, and either just done anyway or overruled at the supreme court.
Uhhh yeah you might want to re-check the most up to date news on that one.
It only goes one way, bud. Don't ever expect it to go both ways with these people.
TheSupreme Court will bow to crybaby Shitler
The general would face a court martial or whatever that process is that could lead to a death sentence, and if that process results in a death sentence for refusing to shoot American citizens then absolutely nothing matters.
Then the general should defend the constitution more directly and aggressively.
That's the the thing, they won't be "american citizens" they will be radical ANTIFA terrorists, so it will be okay to shoot them
Nope and nope.
I think the worst one was the person who was removed because they wouldn't prosecute Comey... There were only 5 days left in statute of limitations. He should have just played along but fucked everything up so that way by the time they realized there would be no time left.
You know it's infinitely more likely that those that stick around are going to just take part in atrocities and not actually resist them right? Whatever you think about the law abiding people who try to change the system from within they almost never actually do it they just prolong the system and legitimize the system.
No, we certainly do not "know" that. People with ethics who would consider resigning are not going to take part in atrocities. The people who would take part in atrocities would be the gung ho Treason Trump supporters. We want as few of them as possible replacing normal people.
Unfortunately we do know that, history is very clear.