Well, I certainly hope the other ~~marines~~ soldiers around them are now fully aware that these scum bags have placed their political views above their oath to the Constitution. I certainly would not trust any of them to have my back.
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They're army but yes
The Marines are just the Army with a crayon and MRE wrapper addiction.
Marines are Navy! We aren't giving our special boys and girls to the army!
Well, and Constitutional legitimacy to exist for more than two years at a time, but who's counting?
Oops. Fixed.
Translation:
Trump is not able to generate a positive audience response without packing it with loyalists.
Even within the armed forces.
He's fully aware that he's a complete fraud.
He's fully aware that he's a complete fraud.
Correction: an amateurish autocrat.
That implies too much legitimacy and potential for growth.
Fucking traitors. Every single fucking one of them.
I'm genuinely curious to what extend the societal divide extends into the armed forces. How can can there be trust among soldiers in combat situations if they are diametrically opposed on fundamental things like this.
I've had people on here assure me that it's impossible, soldiers follow orders and are loyal to the constitution. Sure buds
I would like to speak to some of those ~~cretins~~ ~~morons~~ ~~dumbasses~~ folks regarding some beach front property located in Kansas...
Spectacular views...
🙄 🤦♀️ 🖕 💩
Technically Kansas has beach front property, rivers and lakes have beaches. Kansas is lacking oceanfront property though.
Source: I am a Californian who gets impressed by a puddle of water, I know what a body of water looks like and the features common to them.
Sorry, my bad...
Was, of course, thinking "oceanfront" but stupidly typed "beach front" instead... 🤦♀️ 🙄
Hey it could be worse, you could be the jackass who named an area Mentone "beach" here in San Bernardino, fun fact it's not a fucken beach. Forest falls is more of a beach.
WTF that's like 50-75 miles inland.....
You can have beaches pretty far inland all it since all a beach is is some sand on the shore of a water feature. The problem is that the water feature didn't really have anything that could be called a beach, which is funny cause some spots along Green Spot practically right next store do have what I'd call a beach.
Opposite statements. Either they follow orders or they are loyal to the constitution. Can't do both right now.
I can't fathom the industrial amounts of pure propagandium that Americans must have been huffing to think the military will ever be on their side. Blind and unconditional obedience is literally the only way militaries can function properly and everything about them is organized to promote that.
US military apologists (even before Trump) will say "but soldiers are legally obligated to follow the constitution first and must refuse unlawful orders" like Abu Ghraib didn't happen in my lifetime. We all know that 90 % of soldiers will wipe themselves with the original copy of the declaration of independence if Trump orders them to. And those that refuse will be dishonorably discharged, or worse.
The divide absolutely exists. There is a lot of conditioning for following orders and working as a team. That doesn't erase conflicting ideologies, beliefs, or even personality conflict. At the extreme the military will remove outliers from the military, but at the individual level you learn who you trust and who you can rely on. Then you do what you can to mitigate those who you don't trust.
Militaries all over the world also have a long history of killing their own people for not fitting whatever the group around them wants. Sometimes for justifiable reasons, like incompetent leaders likely to get their subordinates killed. Other times for things like someone being uncomfortable with blatant war crimes.
There is nothing magical or special about the military. They just have more weapons. So the solutions are violent more often than the average office job.
I remember when we used to hang traitors.
There sure are fucking truck loads of them in that picture.
I remember when the French helped us beat some tyranny away from our borders, and although I wouldn't ask them to get their hands dirty when we start wrestling ourselves, I sure wish we could channel some of their energy into the people who "oppose" things like this.... From their couch.
I long to see French level of protesting here in the states.
I wonder if they did a similar screening when selecting which troops to deploy to LA.
Yeah I bet it was real hard to find Nazis in the Nazi army of the Nazi country
Indeed. Oh what, youre just mad theyre hurting the wrong type of brown person?
I am more than mildly surprised at the amount of brown people in the above article's picture. I can almost understand a certain type of white person cheering for him, deluded as they may me.
However I can not fathom why a non white person would even think about it. They are not only traitors to their country, but also to their race AND to what their race has had to fight for for generations. It boggles the mind.
You think "The News" is going to report that? All most people will hear is "big win for the Fat One."
I watched some bit of this earlier in horror and while I was playing a hard game of "spot the differences between this and nazi speeches" I heard Trump mistaking WW1 for WW2. This is the lunatic in charge of the world's biggest army. We are so cooked...