Update! They’re sending the National Guard of Tennessee to the Middle East. You know… instead of Tennessee which just got hit with devastating floods from Hurricane Helene. - ThreadSky

themckenziest.gay • 152 days ago

Update! They’re sending the National Guard of Tennessee to the Middle East.

You know… instead of Tennessee which just got hit with devastating floods from Hurricane Helene.

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Imagine telling people Just Vote! when their whole town just got washed away with zero support from the current administration while they send another $8.7 billion to Israel for bombs to murder more people.

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imsarahnow.bsky.social•151 days ago

sending bombs and American tank crews. the *really* want to deescalate the situation… 🙄

jessisamess.gay•152 days ago

are these people for fucking real

rootofalleli.bsky.social•152 days ago

Gotta protect the fossil fuels that caused the hurricane

zombiemarx.bsky.social•152 days ago

They're not even trying to hide how little the care about us, or their general disregard for life itself.

tommysalami420.bsky.social•152 days ago

Hahahahaha man shit is fucking dire

jikukeiseki.bsky.social•152 days ago

it's incredibly important that we defend and preserve this system!!!

lizardky.bsky.social•151 days ago

Looks like I gotta tap TWO signs in ONE thread.
https://bsky.app/profile/lizardky.bsky.social/post/3l5fbrzmkph2s

larkenciel.bsky.social•151 days ago

Money doesn't have family and community. It seems extremely weird to me that any national guard is sent out of the country. Can you explain why that is something we are doing at all? Aren't regular armed forces for that?

lizardky.bsky.social•151 days ago

You know the NG is regularly deployed overseas, right? And has been for decades?

No, of course you don’t. Because you choose not to bother learning. And I’ve got better things to do.

larkenciel.bsky.social•151 days ago

No which is why I asked. You are welcome to share or not, obviously.

I'm not sure why you bothered in the first place if you didn't want to have the discussion, though. 🤷🏼‍♀️

lizardky.bsky.social•151 days ago

This is really, really, REALLY common. And the middle east deployment was certainly planned long ago, not suddenly to somehow, for some reason no one can imagine, to deprive TN of flood relief.

https://www.nationalguard.mil/News/Overseas-Operations/

lizardky.bsky.social•150 days ago

I mean: Portugal. Central Europe. Korea. Estonia. That's just skimming one RECENT page.

But, sure, let's all make up some wacky conspiracy theory instead of accepting the world is complex, millions of things happen constantly, and not everything is connected to whatever's on the news this second.

larkenciel.bsky.social•151 days ago

Goddamn your posts bring out some strange (derogatory) perspectives.

moonbird.us•150 days ago

Priorities! They’ll get valuable experience with the *next* natural-ish disaster by fucking with this bomb induced one.

dextrosity.bsky.social•151 days ago

Ah yes, because deployments take zero time to prepare for and are just ordered at the last minute. 🙄

pookleblinky.bsky.social•151 days ago

They literally showed up in DC in force on like January 7 and then spent 4 months there

squidmontana.bsky.social•151 days ago

I really have to know, I'm so genuinely curious, I'm not even taking a side or passing any judgement, what do you believe this comment is doing?

dextrosity.bsky.social•151 days ago

Pointing out that the deployment to the Middle East has nothing to do with hurricane response in the U.S.

squidmontana.bsky.social•150 days ago

okay but, in service to what? what do you gain or wish to impart by pointing this out? like, is this in an attempt to defend the hurricane response? or do you think it's bad, just for a different reason?

like why the hostility?

dextrosity.bsky.social•150 days ago

The hostility is towards nihilistic “both sides are equally bad!” slash “Democrats don’t care about helping Americans!” B.S. being set out into the world a month before an election in which there’s a very clear difference between parties.

squidmontana.bsky.social•150 days ago

that's not the argument though, that's never been the argument, and framing it as such is disingenuous.

The argument, which I'm sure you do actually know, is that both sides are bad. both sides are unworthy of endorsement. both sides are capable of improving.

never promise your vote without terms

jginsburg.bsky.social•151 days ago

How does sending guard units to the Middle East help the US? Cuz it seems like all we're doing is fighting Israel's war for it, while the US is suffering and needs as much help as it can get

dextrosity.bsky.social•151 days ago

I don’t know that it does, but it doesn’t diminish hurricane response. This isn’t an either-or situation no matter how much the OP tries to make it into one.

downix.bsky.social•150 days ago

Yes it is. A single soldier cannot be in two places at once. They can either be in the middle east, fighting for Israel's war of conquest, or in Tennessee, helping the recovery and rebuilding efforts in the wake of one of the 10th worst hurricanes to ever hit the US.

rootofalleli.bsky.social•150 days ago

Totally not either-or, finally a fellow believer
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilocation

jginsburg.bsky.social•151 days ago

If the national guard is dying for Israel's imperial ambitions, they're not here in the US helping rebuild. The choice is either help rebuild, or fight a war war for Israel, and I'm pretty damn sure Fighting Israel's war doesn't help us rebuild

lizardky.bsky.social•151 days ago

Sigh. Tapping the sign.
https://bsky.app/profile/lizardky.bsky.social/post/3l5ezdhy7yo27

fallgirlautie.bsky.social•151 days ago

British person here,who literally saw on the news how quick the national guard was mobilised for Ferguson

gregoryaight.bsky.social•150 days ago

Knob end.

themckenziest.gay•151 days ago

Lmao but they can go to a war zone no problem? Fuck off

paulwalker44.bsky.social•151 days ago

🤷 wtf?

🤔 So it’s hard for Americans in Tennessee to get to Tennessse but it’s easier to get Americans from Tennessee to the Middle East?

You’re a clown.

Are you white?

logan.hater.club•151 days ago

Last minute deployments within the United States are literally what the National Guard is for, you toolbox

That’s literally their purpose

themckenziest.gay•151 days ago

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logan.hater.club•151 days ago

Did we all forget Ferguson or, I don’t know, the entirety of the summer of 2020

They can deploy quickly when the government wants them to.

We know they can because THEY DID. LESS THAN A DECADE AGO. WE WATCHED IT IN REAL TIME.

themckenziest.gay•151 days ago

Dude it’s so frustrating to see the same people telling me that trump will use his power to put me in a camp while arguing that Biden/Harris have zero power to do anything or help anyone.

I cannot.

logan.hater.club•151 days ago

I mean I’m not a “they’re the same” type because I know on the ground there is a lot of fighting happening within the Dem party against the power of capital that just simply isn’t happening within the GOP

Also: those distinctions mean precisely dick to people struggling

I can hold both thoughts

itsherby.bsky.social•151 days ago

Why wouldn't there be an immediate action plan for emergencies you can literally see coming? That's like the whole point of the US National Guard.

tulletilsynet.bsky.social•151 days ago

Useless pseudo-progressive moaner

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