“Refuse illegal orders” is like the military version of “stop paying taxes and stop going to work” but at least a magnitude worse. It sounds good and virtuous but there are practical life-changing consequences for doing so.
UCMJ will chew you up and throw you to the side very quickly. Prison is almost a certainty. A dishonorable discharge hangs on you like a felony conviction. And that’s assuming they won’t use illegal force on you or your family.
The only ways I could believe this isn’t scripted nonsense:
Conservatives are just wrong - on basically everything. No amount of bothsidesing or hopium will fix that.
To normalize the military keeping the media at arms’ length or further. Again, you don’t need actual access to military affairs to spread propaganda.
I’m not saying my hypothesis is empirical truth. If it holds water I’d expect further sequestering of military affairs in the future under the guise of “national security.”
Conservatives probably want to go back to the times where there was no genuine correspondence between the media and the military. Back then, everything about war that was released to the public was carefully curated to ensure the taxpayer never lost faith in our troops or lost the appetite for more war. They think allowing independent journalism into their business was a key mistake that helped lose them the war in Vietnam.
Fascists don’t deal in journalism, they deal in propaganda. You don’t need Pentagon access to get marching orders from the Ministry of Truth, and this is likely the start of that, and why de-facto state media like Newsmax and Fox aren’t interested in keeping their connections.
More objective evidence that he very explicitly thinks he is above the law, all law. Basically academic at this point in time, but the regime will collapse some day and it will be important to take count.
The regime got this far because The Base is dumber than dogshit and incredibly willing to act against its own interest over and over again if it means they get to punch down on those they hate. They’re not about to get cold feet or reflect on the possibility of failure now. And to be honest, I don’t think they have a lot of reason to worry.
Israel and its enforcers are operating in a euphoric mental state. For an abuser it’s a rush to be able to abuse people openly and get away with it, rather than having to conceal and twist logic. They know that so long as they have the paid for blessing of the United States and its bloated military, nobody can realistically hold them accountable.
We have IDF soldiers openly admitting to killing unarmed civilians on social media. It’s all euphoria and arrogance.
Without more context it’s hard to pass judgement. Were the victims hit by pass-through shots on the attacker or a wall? Did the firearms officer straight up miss? Were they using their handgun or their carbine?
The real difference will be if they hold the firearms officer accountable, for negligence if nothing else.
Conservatives have wanted to gut the Fed with a bowie knife since fucking Andrew Jackson, so this isn’t a blunder to them.
I can’t decide whether Fox and Friends or The Five is the worst segment on Fox. Seems like they’re in competition for the title. The both of them are technically comedy or even satire segments, but of course they use that as a shield from criticism. “No reasonable person would take this seriously”, just like they argue in court when they get sued for the raw sewage they spew into public discourse.
But “Kill all of the homeless” and “destroy the UN and everyone who’s part of it” are only jokes if you find those actions amusing.
“I would have considered opposing war crimes and general inhumanity, but the opposition was cringe. I had no choice, really.”
Fuck off.
Red Note banned a lot of people for wrongspeak during that exodus. Westerners are used to speaking their minds online for better or worse.
Speaking of banning, saying the “CPC” is awfully authoritarian and all that shit would normally be a permabanning offense in .ml, but I’m willing to bet that the admins will let it slide because you’re disingenuously pushing Chinese influence on the libshit gweilo.
Humans have been ostracising those with aberrant or antisocial traits and behaviors for longer than civilization has existed. That’s just how we work, its nothing new. A lot of the time it’s simpleminded and damaging, but sometimes it’s for the good of the whole.
I think it’s perfectly okay to ostracise fascists and racists. I don’t think it’s okay for them to try to do the same for us. That’s not hYpOcRiSy, that’s how culture war works.
The average person is a follower who will defer to authority when pressed even a little. The average person abhors violence. People turn in their loved ones to please authority and condemn violence all the time, like the shooter’s suspect’s father.
Is the answer lead poisoning?
Seems like it.
“We’ll coup whoever we want! Deal with it!” - actual Elon quote.
I’d imagine there are many ways people might “deal with it”, unfortunately for him.
Look at what the Kirk assassin wrote on their cartridges.
Internet meme culture is just culture now.
Just world fallacy. There is a very real chance that they will all get away with this. Better odds than not, I’d say.
He’ll be 97 when he gets out, if he lives that long.
Good riddance.
They used to say “you can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich” but these sleazeballs can’t even do that. It’s not just this case or this jurisdiction, too.