• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    You are talking about the old USA, under any other president. If he tells Hegseth to stand down, Hegseth will stand down. If he tells Hegseth to shoot into crowds of unarmed American protesters, Hegseth will do it. Hegseth will never fight back, certainly not in defense of Taiwan.

    I don’t know who you think is going to defy Trump, but it certainly isn’t going to be any MAGAs, and even the Dems probably won’t do anything but cry.

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        I can’t deny that America has a very dark history, but you also can’t deny that our current situation is more dire than at any time since the Civil War. He is not just “one more president,” he literally poses the biggest national security threat of any president in modern times.

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          I don’t share your same fear. Hopefully the US Empire will die soon, but either way, Trump is not some dark horse phenomenon, but a reflection of the deterioration of the US Empire and the need for the imperialists to inflict austerity to cover their losses from that.