Yeah, imagine signing up for the National Guard and then having these child-fucking Confederates use you as a way of threatening normal Americans.
Any normal human being would feel a great deal of shame.
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A National Guard official acknowledged the documents are authentic but downplayed their sensitivity, saying the assessments are intended for internal use and were inadvertently emailed to The Post last week. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity, citing an unspecified policy. It is unclear how many people mistakenly received the documents.
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I'm starting to genuinely wonder if "oops, added a journalist" is the new form of leaking...
Because it just actually happening this much is fucking insane
Whatever works.
This was intentional. Nobody writes journalist@definitelynotthemilitaryemail.com instead of specific-name@militaryemailthatwealwaysuse.com
Protect whistleblowers
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“Trending videos show residents reacting with alarm and indignation,” a summary from Friday said. “One segment features a local [resident] describing the Guard’s presence as leveraging fear, not security — highlighting widespread discomfort with what many perceive as a show of force.”
"Gosh, we blindly followed a fascist's orders and now people don't trust us anymore for some reason. Nobody could have predicted this!" /s
A US Air Force recruiter emailed me this morning
I cussed her out, told her to grow a fucking back bone.
Used to never do that to military, now I don't respect them.
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They may feel bad but they'll follow orders. Pardon me if I don't care about their feelings.
In the US it was a wave of Vietnam war movies for a while that ranged from feeling bad about themselves for getting PTSD and ones trying to make it seem heroic. Also stuff like Henry Kissinger gets all the blame and practically no one else in people's discourse. Iraq/Afghanistan haven't resulted in the same level of woe is me the invader cinema as Vietnam did. Revisionist westerns had a good amount of the terrible toll on the mind of a colonizer as the great tragedy of the western US genocidal expansion
Vietnam was made far worse by the Draft. Few government institutions are as evil as a draft.
Reading articles like this just really make me lose faith in all of humanity. Maybe it's a good thing they climate change will decimate humanity, even though you can bet your ass that it will be the assholes that survive
Oh shucks. They feel a bit bad about stomping on the necks of The People for a paycheck? You hear that, the jackboots really ARE our friends!
Yeah. Fuck that. Talk is cheap. Actions are what matters.
National Guard: Quit your job. Stay a good person.
I don't really want the National Guard to consist entirely of people enthusiastic about this stuff.
You say that like unenthusiastic people will do anything about it. That's not how humans work. That one enthusiastic person fires on a crowd of peaceful protesters and all the unenthusiastic people will fire too. Every single time.
That is literally the opposite of how it works in the end stages of quite a good proportion of revolutions.
At the end of the day, people in any country's armed forces are just human people at the end of the day, and the US National Guard is quite a lot more human than most. Even in shooting wars against other nations, there are troops who decide to do the right thing. Hugh Thompson for example got a medal for landing his helicopter between Americans and Vietnamese civilians at My Lai, and telling his crew to fire on the Americans if they kept advancing.
The National Guard has fired upon and murdered American civilians multiple times. The us national guard is in no way special. You are peddling a fiction here. The vast vast majority of times Armed Forces will fire upon their own citizens with zero compunction. Often with Glee. Hell if anything by the end stages of revolutions hearts have hardened and they are more likely to fire.
Yes yes, get it all out. There, there. I can tell you're deeply learned about all of this stuff, it makes me feel a little bad that I came in with some kind of examples or anything, I'm sure there are not any more and it was just some crazy outlier.
Also, if there's one word that I really commonly hear from people who've killed other humans in the military, when they talk about their experience, it is "glee." They just glee all over the place, whenever they talk about it.
(What other examples are you even talking about? Kent State and what? I feel like I sent you into some kind of fit by bringing up the example that I did.)
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Fun fact, you can't just quit. I tried. You can desert, but then you'd risk going to prison.
If I was in the national guard and I was going be deployed to an American city I'd refuse to go and I'd make a VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY, PUBLIC stand about it until they silence me.
Soon enough you can just say you're trans and get out.
If they don't believe you, start acting very outwardly like it.
If you're unsure what to do, Google "Klinger".
I'm sorry, but I'm just a little rainbow to be a stormtrooper?
The Corporate Klinger Strategy
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They have a good section on assisting people file as conscientious objectors.
That was actually the very one I tried to use, it was refused
Or stay and gunk up, otherwise you can get loyalists.
As I said months ago, current service members need to plan retirement asap to not be used as fascist tools against Americans. One can't simply quit without consequence, but you can get out sooner than you otherwise would. Get out now before you're deployed to a war.
When Trump's wars happen, and they will happen, he's going to institute a draft, or perhaps even call for mandatory military service, like Israel or South Korea. That way, they get to indoctrinate every single young American citizen before they go into the world as adult citizens.
In another update, the Guard indicates troops “continue efforts to restore and beautify public spaces across the District” and have “cleared 906 bags of trash, spread 744 cubic yards of mulch, removed five truckloads of plant waste, cleared 3.2 miles of roadway, and painted 270 feet of fencing.”
OMG what a total waste of everything.
I have seen the troops wandering around DC and it is just so stupid..
They wanted to deport all the immigrants and now they have to bring in the National Guard to do the landscaping. 😂
Please thank them for their heroic service.
I mean as a service member, you are allowed to obey your oath and ignore the felon in office and his illegal federal takeovers. Fight it in court, you will win as the nazi's can't prove anything in court.
Unfortunately they don’t have to prove anything in court because they have the Supreme Court in their pocket. The only way to beat fascism is to kill fascism
Unfortunately, an order to go and walk around DC isn't a violation of anything. You have to wait until they give you an actually illegal order before telling them to stuff it (well, at least if you want to remain as a free person.)
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