• MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    The oath is important and sounds good. But it’s also extremely simplistic. No definition of what “enemy” means. For the armed forces, maybe you could say said enemies would be those attacking and occupying territory.

    We’re not paying them to attack the people who won the last election. You have a problem with that, you should talk to the 10 million or so people that made that happen. Trump didn’t take over in a coup, we handed him the country.

    • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      Not really necessary to apply some special meaning to it. He acts in a way that consistently and deliberately does harm to our nation. Winning an election vs not is moot - it doesn’t matter (in the context of whether or not he’s an enemy) how he came into power, what matters is what he’s done with that power, which has been to divide our nation, sever our ties to our allies, destroy our economy, weaken our rights, and strengthen our other enemies.

      Per our military’s own standards, that makes him a legitimate tactical target the same as any other enemy combatant or their chain of command.

      Yea it’s simplistic - that’s by design. On paper, even your run of the mill e-nothing grunt should be able to figure this out. …and it’s not that they can’t figure it out; their either too cowardly to act on it, or are also traitors and gleefully complicit in our country’s nose dive.