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Top Air Force General Quits Following Hegseth's Partisan Quantico Speech (dailyboulder.com)

submitted 3 days ago by Salamence@lemmy.zip to c/usa@midwest.social

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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/6319064

And he was appointed by trump first term

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[–] monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You only need to follow lawful orders. Ordering the murder of civilians is not lawful. Because the act of murdering civilians is illegal.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We're talking Trumpistan, not the United States of America tho.

[–] Sprocketfree@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Well in this made up world they can just shoot trump too right? Why are we all acting like the law is already over?

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mean, look around? Not saying people are not at risk of the law, but the rule of law is dead in the us.

[–] Sprocketfree@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

And yet judges keep ruling and the administration backs down. The concentration camp in Florida, closed. I'm not saying they aren't flouting it left and right, but it is still there and people are recording what they are doing for when they get thrown out.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The concentration camp in Florida, closed.

Uhhh yeah you might want to re-check the most up to date news on that one.

[–] Sprocketfree@sh.itjust.works 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Please do share. From what I'm seeing it was closed and no detaines are there anymore. I see they want to reopen it but so far are blocked.

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

The closure injunction was blocked by the court of appeals, the camp is operating.

You can see footage from Oct 1st of the camp

[–] Sprocketfree@sh.itjust.works 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Well that's depressing. Thanks for the update.

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 1 points 3 hours ago

Yeah its an issue with how news is reported, stories "splash" down and then media tends to move on, giving people a conclusion that may or may not be real.

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You still have ice out masked in force, still have camps, still have tarriffed the world, still have open bribery, and still have chilling lawsuits against media. All of which was ruled not cool by judges at some point, and either just done anyway or overruled at the supreme court.

[–] Sprocketfree@sh.itjust.works 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I agree. Shit is tenuous at best. I just don't buy into all the defeatism I'm seeing around here. Bunch of people are just doing the fascist jobs for them with this shit. Use the courts even if they are shitty right now, it's another tool.

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 1 points 20 hours ago

I don't think its defeatism, most of it is from people outside of the us pulling our hair out watching the usa pull the world into a dark pit while us citizens talk about "when things are normal again", "when the checks and balances kick in" and in this case "The courts will fix it".

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 days ago

It only goes one way, bud. Don't ever expect it to go both ways with these people.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

TheSupreme Court will bow to crybaby Shitler