something that is especially clear if you have studied colonialism a bit: a load bearing aspect of maintaining even a semblance of democracy (or defending a sitting autocracy from democracy) is having a military that is unwilling to kill its own citizens
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South Korean soldiers attempting to enter the National Assembly repelled by a fire extinguisher and camera flashes.
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I fear will find out.
But in all sincerity, we need to increase funding for police so they are better trained and less likely to violate civil rights of Americans. But feel free to continue to throw around leftist buzzwords and be politically impotent.
It is not over
Comrade Tortuga yes
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my cousin understood that during his service one of his most important duties was to refuse an unlawful order
Lots of confederate flags, runes, and suspicious crosses there.
How long before the rhetoric that we've been seeing over the past year classifying student protesters as terrorists starts to take root?
We already have a military conditioned to unquestioningly murder people filed into that category. All it takes is to stretch it just that much farther
Legionnaires in the Marian sense maybe, but not fanatics.
So they fight to have our government shovel our currency to the top of the economy
Leaving everyone else in poverty or mountains of household debt
Christian Nationalists ….
But what we do know, only white men should be justly blessed
Heed Millet's words. What our military is loyal to - fanatically loyal to - is the constitution of the United States. Not the government, not the people running the state.
Elections are non-negotiable. So long as we've got the ballot box we don't need the other three.
BUTTTTTT the protest in Russia were suppressed by military members so... I am correct
Secure the parliament building? Sure, lawful order.
Gun down a bunch of unarmed citizens to do so? We won't be doing that.
They want to get quagmired down in an area where the locals and soldiers then become captive consumers for all the military industrial contractors.
Recurrent revenue from a captive base over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over.