• m4xie
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        8 days ago

        They’re not cops. That’s a big part of the problem.

        • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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          Refusing to be deployed somewhere (a technically legal, though extremely dubious order) is different than refusing to execute civilians (an illegal order, which can and should be refused). You should understand the nuances of the UCMJ before you spout sweeping generalizations like that.

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          Refusing orders means being court marshaled, losing your position, and, at best, getting the military to pay you back pay after fighting them for months. You won’t be getting your position or pension back, though.

          At worst, you go to military jail.

          You can probably see why that’s not so much happening.

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            And that is why they are also the enemy: “I was just carrying out my orders, otherwise I would lose my pension!”, yeah that pathetic excuse has never worked.

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        Incorrect. By allowing themselves to become canon fighter, they become the enemy. Unfortunately, it is required to tear through the Cannon fonder defense of fascists in order to get to the fascists.

        If you’re too squeamish to fight, fascism, then step aside for those who are not.

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    9 days ago

    There are people out there with Confederate flags cheering this on unironically. If someone gave me this text in high school, I would have called it a badly written dystopian fiction.

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    So when they shove them into that slumber party room, are they going to be tip to tip, or are we going to have a 2000 man chain going?

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    1 weekend a month NGs getting underpaid to stand around full time. From Ca so it’s a commute. deployment is fluff word