AcidicBasicGlitch

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[–] AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

We didn't even make it the full decade. We did the whole pandemic thing but just passed on a new Jazz age with interesting new music and style, said no thanks to the libertine philosophy, and decided to fast forward 5 years and let this dusty old turd and his lame wrecking crew of Christian nationalists and the least intelligent pack of nerds that has ever existed, nose dive us right into the fucking ground.

There's no way this motherfucker couldn't just hire somebody to do the tariffs math right. He literally had all the money to hire the most talented people bc he's just been stealing it from us constantly. Instead he and his crew are such cheap little shit stains that they decided to just have AI handle it and fuck it all up as always. And now their big master plan is to dump whatever fucking money is left into more AI!?! Because they still don't fucking comprehend that's not the God damn solution to everything!?!

Fuck I hate these dumb fucks so God damn much

God, I bet all of history's previous dictators are just shaking their heads while they burn in hell because this guy is such a fucking joke.

[–] AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You can still read the original post here

He was saying many Russian soldiers that have been captured have said they weren't aware they were actually supposed to be fighting in a war, and had been told what they were doing was a military exercise. So it's possible in some cases that even if a soldier is given an order, they may not realize the extent of consequences of following it.

[–] AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why did you delete it? You're allowed to have a different opinion on things. This isn't reddit 😉

I think we should all be thinking about this stuff and having honest discussions about it. Even if I don't agree with you, the disagreement is not meant as an attack on you or your beliefs. It's just an explanation for why I may have a different point of view.

[–] AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

Thanks for posting that. I appreciate what she's saying and I would like to think that is what would happen, however, chaotic situations lead to very unpredictable outcomes. When you have chaos, an angry mob of people, and armed soldiers being told their job is to keep things under control, you're putting a lot of faith in the individual good vs group think mentality that tends to be a sad aspect of human nature.

  1. Especially given that you have corrupt governors pushing federal policy at the state level, there is a very good chance you will have the national guard called in to handle dissent. I'm watching my own governor abuse his power and grant some very questionable authority to the guard already. Kent State is a really good example of why this should be very scary. It's not "fear mongering" to make sure people are aware of overlaps between fairly recent U.S. history and the current reality.

  2. I do know there are soldiers who truly would refuse an illegal order, but I think it's naive to rely on that when it comes to what we're seeing now. Especially considering the goal of this administration is to deconstruct and tear down everything they dislike about the current U.S. system.

As someone pointed out, Hegseth is now in charge of the military and seems to be doing everything he can to root out opposition to the administration. He's setting a tone for what is to be expected of anyone not following orders. Apparently ignoring the whole incident where he ended up texting war plans in a group chat on signal where a journalist somehow got added, the Pentagon has also started threatening department of defense employees with polygraphs in order to determine who is leaking information to the press. They actually sent this memo out threatening employees late on Friday night and news of Hegseth accidentally leaking sensitive information broke on Monday.

Soldiers get issued an RoE card. The card specifies the procedure for Escalation of Force. Usually it’s “Verbal Warning, Show of Force, Warning Shot, Lethal Force” with the option to skip steps in case of self-defence.

However, soldiers sometimes still do illegal and immoral thing time while deployed in other countries. Sometimes because they've been ordered to, and sometimes because they choose to. Is that representative of the entire U.S. or the military? No, but it definitely happens way too frequently.

  1. There are a lot of comments from military members in the original post. A retired member of the army commented this. It's in the 3rd screenshot of the pictures, and the original post is gone from the subreddit but still available to view here if you want to look over it:

by the time "effect martial law on [insert US city] and summarily execute anyone who does not comply" makes it's way to the commander of a maneuver company, it is formatted in an operations order in a way that is devoid of any subjectivity. orders are distilled to a rigidly-formatted set of instructions that almost anyone in the formation are able to understand and carry out.

the reason for this is so the people who carry out the orders don't hesitate and don't contemplate the wider meaning. an infantry platoon''s task won't be to effect martial law; it will be "seize and hold objective [whatever] (could be a street intersection, train station, etc) by 1700 hrs"

Again, I believe at the individual level, most people would choose to do the right thing, but we've seen over and over again, that especially in times of panic and chaos, frontal lobes go offline, lizard brain takes over, and herd mentality kicks in as a defense mechanism.

[–] AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Maybe elected officials that keep defending this moron out of some kind of false sense of protection can take hint?

[–] AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

I think it's a bit more complex than that, because it still depends on the conviction.

Clearly he is not getting off from some kind of murder charge. I don't know much about the trial, but I would assume his lawyers are arguing a state of physical and emotional distress which would have kept him from being in his right mind when he allegedly shot the guy.

It would be a pretty bold move for a "free country" to execute someone like that. Not saying it wouldn't happen, but I know we're already being monitored for human rights violations by other countries. It would seem to be a weak hand to play, but then again strongmen usually play pretty weak hands when they want to prove how powerful they are. We have entire histories worth of atrocities to prove it.

[–] AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee 18 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

For a second I was going to say it's like they're trying to make us hate them more somehow. Then I realized, yeah, that's probably exactly what they're trying to do. Antagonizing people into violence is the goal.

I'm not sure if it's to use it as an excuse to declare martial law, or kick off a civil war, or both? Idk I guess I've just been around enough passive aggressive pieces of shit in the past to recognize it when I see it.

[–] AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago

Idk,.I'm finding it might actually be useful to spread local information if you stick to some local subreddits

[–] AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yep fuck Sinclair broadcasting too, but as you can see, the only news covering this is from local Indiana news reporting.

[–] AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Yeah fuck the intercept, not really the point.

My point is that while big news networks are fucking around it's the locals news and individuals who are getting fucked over the most by this bullshit who are actually trying to make sure this shit doesn't get buried

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