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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 160 points 7 months ago (3 children)

If you don’t take off the uniform and quit, you’re a Gestapo agent.

[–] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 109 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Refuse. Unlawful. Orders.

If sanity ever returns to your country, you don't want to be on the wrong side.

[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 7 months ago (7 children)

If a masked person enters my property and refuses to show identification, I will absolutely be practicing self-defense.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 47 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Do it just like the Founding Fathers intended:

[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

TIL bayonet wounds are triangle shaped.

[–] SippyCup@feddit.nl 14 points 7 months ago

They were triangular for ease of manufacture, they were also stronger that way. They didn't need to be particularly slicey, they were pretty much just for pointy stabbies. So a triangular blade would do.

[–] PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I believe the triangular bayonets are against the Geneva Convention rules of war now chiefly because of their lethality.

[–] teft@piefed.social 21 points 7 months ago (3 children)

3 things. First it’s a myth that triangular bayonets are banned under the geneva conventions. Only serrated bayonets are illegal. Secondly it wouldn’t make sense to ban something in war because it’s “more lethal”. That’s like the whole point of war. Serrated blades are banned because they cause undue suffering. Third, the geneva conventions only apply to humanitarian treatment at war. Governments are free to do what they want to their citizens according to international law. It’s why tear gas is banned for warfare via the geneva conventions yet police can gas the shit out of protestors.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 7 points 7 months ago

Nitpick: the Geneva conventions apply for all kinds of conflicts, including domestic ones. However, tear gas is allowed for riot control in policing.

The reason it's banned in war is because if the other side sees you using chemical weapons, they might respond with their own, but the bad ones, like nerve gas. In riot control, that isn't going to happen.

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[–] figjam@midwest.social 4 points 7 months ago

Good thing we aren't an army.

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[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 10 points 7 months ago (3 children)

National Guard is a branch of the army isn’t it? I’m not sure you can just quit. AWOL? Maybe. If you’re close to your end date you can choose not to continue. But quit? Don’t think army works like that

[–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Just tell them you're trans or gay

[–] flandish@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

“Section 8, here I come!”

[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 19 points 7 months ago (3 children)

This isn't russia, AWOL means forefitting benefits and possibly sitting in jail for a bit. Juggling between the consequences of AWOL or carrying out nazi orders, I know what my choice would be.

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 7 points 7 months ago

I’m not saying you shouldn’t go AWOL. I’m saying you can’t just quit

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm gonna go out on a limb and bet your not the type to join the Armed Forces in the first place. -No offense (I'm not either) I say this because I think the type of person that's anti-war enough to opt for jail over carrying out nazi orders is the same type of person that knows better than to ever find themselves in a position to make this decision. If I'm wrong, I welcome your corrections.

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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago (3 children)

You can’t just leave your badge on the desk and walk out like in movies, either.

But being punished for abandoning your post might be the only other alternative to being a brute in the service of a dictator.

The Army and law enforcement of DC will decide in whatever direction their personal characters leans them towards.

“I can change THE system from THE inside!!1”

No, you can’t. Run. The tribunals that you will face after Trump is arrested or killed will not be kind to you.

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[–] KumaSudosa@feddit.dk 5 points 7 months ago

I have a feeling that Maga is strongly represented in all armed forces..

[–] rauls5@lemmy.zip 103 points 7 months ago (2 children)
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[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 80 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Are Americans going to do anything to resist, or is the frog going to keep sitting in boiling water?

[–] Railing5132@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

You already know that answer.

[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I see protesters every day.

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Did they actually achieve anything? Protest is a nice tool, but there is a place and a time, and seems like at this particular time this tool doesn't fit the place

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[–] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 49 points 7 months ago

Remember when he claimed he couldn't call the national guard into DC during Jan 6?

[–] AngryRobot@lemmy.world 46 points 7 months ago

This is Martial Law.

[–] Steve@startrek.website 37 points 7 months ago
[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 36 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

It isn't about crime and everyone knows it.

He plans to use this force to keep himself in power when his base and entourage will inevitably turn against him. Between the Epstein files and the impeding collapse of the economy and inflation some, he knows it's coming. He is terrified.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 41 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

This is way too optimistic. More likely, it's a test case for federal takeover of blue cities elsewhere (in red states especially), and to serve as an example to scare mayors into getting in line.

This is like... Super fucking bad. We are in deep. We were so primed for fascism, that it literally took less than 8 months to become nearly full authoritarian.

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[–] jimjam5@lemmy.world 31 points 7 months ago

Child rapist. I fucking knew it was only a matter of time before this headline appeared.

[–] andyburke@fedia.io 22 points 7 months ago

WHERE ARE THE EPSTEIN FILES?

[–] monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago

Release the Trump-Epstein files

[–] KumaSudosa@feddit.dk 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

For 800 homeless people? I know he wants them to suffer and divert attention but it'd probably be cheaper and easier just to build each of them a house.. he'd even actually create some genuine jobs for once. It could be a national movement of solidarity and job creation. He could call it "the Trump Fil..". Oh no..

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

For 800 homeless people?

The homeless are just his excuse to position the military in the capital for his coup.

[–] lack@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

Trump is very protective of his young boy servants. He does not want anyone to steal one.

[–] beemikeoak@lemmynsfw.com 13 points 7 months ago

I don't think god exists. I keep telling you all. This is your very first and last life you're ever going to have.

For that reason, I'm in the couch trying to not toast alive in my house.

I bet people in other lesser countries like Mexico people are suffering incredible hardship that is unimaginably worse than ours. If only there was a body of people organized for the purpose of helping us all!

Anyway, if anyone needs me I'll be found in my living room within the sweaty damp area.

[–] kikutwo@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

"When you're famous, they let you do it"

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago
[–] Montagge@lemmy.zip 8 points 7 months ago

And here we go

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 8 points 7 months ago

And the fascism escalates.

[–] flandish@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

awww. nazi gonna nazi. I hope all nazis follow their leader.

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