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President proclaims doubling of ICE troops with additional 20,000 forces in the next 60 days
(www.whitehouse.gov)
this post was submitted on 10 May 2025
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Too populated by MAGAts and indoctrinated to always follow orders. Yeah technically they're not supposed to follow unconstitutional orders, but that ship sailed with Obama's escapades in the Middle East.
In My Lai, Hugh Thompson landed his helicopter between US troops and Vietnamese civilians, and told his men to shoot the Americans if they tried to advance. No one questioned it. The US army tried to give him a medal for heroism in conflict with the enemy, part of their general cover-up, and he told them to get fucked. Eventually, they relented, halfway admitted that what he did was right, and gave him a medal for what he actually did. A lot of people at the time thought he was a traitor but he’s a free man now with his medal, and his name is in all the books. They court-martialled the commander most responsible for the massacre, although he didn’t really get punished.
The Vietnam Veterans Against the War did some of the most hard-hitting resistance to the war.
Everyone’s an individual. The US army is comprised of every color of the rainbow all the way from total MAGAs who want to kill Arabs and Democrats and are just waiting for someone to tell them to, all the way to whole platoons of Hugh Thompsons. It is fairly likely that a lot of how this all shakes out will come down to which faction becomes the consensus faction.
Edit: Oh, also, you’re showing your hand a little bit, saying that Obama was when the ship sailed. Not that he did much of anything to stop anything, he killed plenty of people, but there was one clear specific moment at which the ship sailed, and it wasn’t Obama.
For how long will that last?
Bro… 😢