farquaad-point this nerd thinks we care about the pathetic justifications libs make for not being able to do good things

  • 420blazeit69 [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    You’re thinking of the military as this force that is blindly, personally loyal to the president. The military is not that politically uniform, and the only foreseeable president a chunk of them might go to bat for is Trump, and there are all sorts of separate problems with thinking Trump could purge the military then become a dictator with the remainder.

    Say Sleepy Joe orders an Army unit to enter the capitol building and execute every Republican – are the hooting chuds in that unit going to say “yes, Mr. President” and do it? If Biden orders a drone strike on the the Florida gubernatorial mansion, is the lib officer (who joined because he thinks the military is a force for good) going to do it? How is the order to effectively start a second civil war going to go over among a rank-and-file that’s looking around and wondering who is on which side?

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      1 year ago

      Say Sleepy Joe orders an Army unit to enter the capitol building and execute every Republican – are the hooting chuds in that unit going to say “yes, Mr. President” and do it?

      i mean obviously joe isnt going to do this, as i said, its team liberalism. what i am saying is that if there were, by some arcane technology, a socialist president, then odds are there are many socialists in the military and likely have even infiltrated intelligence agencies to some degree. the move would be to purge the military and do a soft revolution. this isnt a likely scenario for an imperialist country, but this has happened in history to federal governments in the past. whats more likely is a socialist governorship does similar with the police and militia of the state, but that is still unlikely.