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To watch you suffer
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the hong kong protestors used the phrase "do not split" to mean that the radical protest and peaceful protest arms of the movement should refuse to criticize each other.
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I mean same but also as a player I would like men to flirt with and maybe fuck
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Yeah it's essentially unsourced but was too funny for me not to quote, and it's in keeping with Hegseth's other denials of benefits to service members
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(If you are a mutual and happen to be organizing a TTRPG campaign for stream, feel free to reach out, lmao - my schedule's open)
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Don't really have the free time to DM games to my standard anymore and haven't gotten any opportunities to join other streamers' games
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LOL it seems they're putting the troops on 29-day rotations so they don't have to give them active-duty benefits
Remember what I said about how authoritarians need the troops to actually be willing to kill for them for this to work?
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This doesn't apply for authoritarian regimes which are broadly popular and/or where armed forces are of a different ethnic composition to the people they're shooting and/or armed forces are highly ideological
But none of these are true in the United States today
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As Bouie is pointing out in the thread, this isn't an accurate picture of the ideological character of the US Military
And the usual consequence of "some idiot actually opens fire" is a galvanization of opposition and disintegration of military morale (e.g. look at Kent State)
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People often expect either a dramatic refusal of orders or complete obedience, but the reality is it usually looks like soldiers going where they're told to go and then just standing there, paralyzed by indecision, and eventually just quietly going home rather than fire on their own people
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We can observe what happens when an authoritarian tries to do this without sufficient loyalty from security forces in recent events in South Korea, where the former president abruptly declared martial law and ordered troops to the National Assembly building... who just stood around looking confused
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Not really? They'll shift resources into the most politically loyal security forces and move to secure the loyalty of as much of the people with guns as they can
The Trump admin, hopped up on delusions of grandeur, seem to have forgotten about the securing loyalty part
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The Trump administration clearly *thinks* invoking the Insurrection Act and deploying the military is the secret button to crush all domestic opposition, but there's no reason to think they're correct! In fact, plenty of reason to think they're not!
Tactically, the correct move is escalation!
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Consider Hegseth has spent the last several months pissing off the military by revoking their benefits, banning their recreation, ending major medical exemptions, etc. etc.
Do you think they're inclined to obey if ordered to open fire on Americans?
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This is so fucking true lmao
It's a whole lot of really good ideas compressed way too much
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Everyone looking at protests as if they’re an electoral strategy and not a community desperately trying to protect itself from an invading army.
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Extraordinarily funny that I'm seeing both the liberals and leftists I follow arguing with Tom Nichols simultaneously
Man has a gift for extraordinarily terrible takes
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I did!
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Given the people behind it, it was clear this is what it was meant to be from the beginning!
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Given part of what I do is chemistry, I would say mixing drinks is a pretty accurate choice for me!
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Apparently they take a single cell from an embryo that has already begun dividing, which won't destroy the embryo but also will not produce enough genetic material for a comprehensive genome-sequencing!
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The point I'm making here is not about how *bad* China's treatment of the Uighurs is - we both agree it is very bad! - but about how it should be analyzed and contextualized.
I think comparisons to American treatment of indigenous peoples are accurate in *severity* but misunderstand context.
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...which also has parallels in European nation-building projects, like the French case.
I maintain the comparison here is more valid because the motivations are more about ensuring an ethnically homogenous (and therefore "loyal") population in vulnerable border regions than producing an underclass
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It started shortly after the Revolution and was continued by subsequent regimes
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I'm particularly thinking of the French process of forcible linguistic and cultural homogenization, which began in the late 1700s