According to nearly a dozen retired officers and current military lawyers, as well as scholars who teach at West Point and Annapolis, an intense if quiet debate is underway inside the U.S. military community about what orders it would be obliged to obey if President-elect Donald Trump decides to follow through on his previous warnings that he might deploy troops against what he deems domestic threats, including political enemies, dissenters and immigrants.

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  • masterofn001
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    5 hours ago

    Good thing you’ll never read 1984, or animal farm, or brave new world, or anything by P.K. Dick, because, yep, completely irrelevant.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      No idea why you would make that assumption…

      Or why you think that would be meaningful to the discussion…

      Just sounds like a bad attempt at an insult which resulted in demonstrating ignorance. If that was your goal, then well done.