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[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Have fun standing around in the baking sun with all that equipment.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] m4xie 6 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The cannon fodder is not the enemy

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

They are literally the enemy if they are there to violently oppress lawful demonstrations.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Then refuse the orders. Otherwise they are complicit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

Okay keyboard warrior.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

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?