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913·4 days agoAlright, let’s be realistic, a lot of competent high ranking officers are out of work since the purges of Trump. And a lot are still in work, that managed to survive the purges.
And when I say purges, I mean redundancies and firings. Not like Saddam Hussein, taken out back and met with a bullet or rope. But just given their military pension and told to fuck off.
I’m not expecting the average grunt to be able to do much. But an officer whose rank allows them the command of hundreds or thousands of people is capable of something.
There has been not even a murmuring of mutiny, resistance, or rebellion, let alone a coup. Some sailors stuffed t-shirts down their toilets, likely more in rebellion at being at sea far longer than they were meant to than anything else. But that’s about it.
Americans, until very very recently, have had freedoms and liberties that the Chinese and Russians have never enjoyed. Do you think Russian military courts are comparable to American? To compare them is disingenuous. Although in saying that, Xu Qinxian did refuse his orders at Tiannamen Square. He refused saying he’d rather be executed than be a criminal to history.
But there’s always an exceptionalism, an excuse, for why America is incapable of thwarting fascism. No matter how much I argue here, somebody will come along with another excuse, another reason for why Americans can’t do what other countries around the world have done over and over throughout history.
Land of the
BraveBollocks.
You say as if American soldiers aren’t also Americans. It’s not just up to civilians to partake in politics and the resistance of tyranny.
Coups happen all over the world, for various reasons. You’d think an openly genocidal regime headed by a fascist, paedophile, moronic traitor, actively making life worse for the majority and aiding their enemies. Shitting on the constitution, and making veiled threats to cancel elections, would be enough to instigate one, but I guess not.
The stereotype of American soldiers seems to hold up, all bark but no bite unless the opponent is clearly outmatched with bigger weapons.
By one estimate, there were 457 coup attempts from 1950 to 2010, half of which were successful.[3]
You’re definitely American if you’re frothing at the mouth over phantom communists
Depends entirely on the type of tree and type of vines.
A local tree surgeon, hippy, or naturalist (not to be confused with a naturist!) will likely be of more help than randoms on the global net. They can look at it up close and see what we can’t.
Generally though, nature is best left to do its thing. If the trees aren’t showing any signs of suffering because of the vines then just leave nature to do its thing.
If we’re being obtuse asses then it’s:
War crimes.
Don’t hide sex crimes.
As if they’re pro war crimes and wish for sex crimes to be in the open. But we all know that is not what this sign is saying.
Hills near me (northern Scotland) were once magma chambers underneath volcanoes! That’s how worn down they are. Wild to think about, and makes some lovely granite.
51·25 days agoYou are love
You are not alone
You are going through hell, but keep going
Be proud, be open
Be loud, be hopeful
Be healthy, be happy
Be kind to yourself
Be decisive
Here, now
Do not live every day as if it is your last
Live every day as if it is your first
Full of wonder and excitement
As you wonder along, excited
Marveling at the possibilities of all that stands before you
Here, now
That invasion began in 2014…
It marked the beginning of the Russo-Ukrainian war.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Russian_annexation_of_Crimea
Definitely nothing to do with the editorial bias of Politico’s owners…
There’s speculation that that is something Trump and the Republicans are after, with some evidence to support that theory.
There’s zero evidence to support New Labour will attempt the same. This is just tin foil pulled out your arse conspiracy, which aids nobody but the fascists. Don’t let the bastards win, don’t spread unfounded conspiracies.
Only two elections have ever been cancelled in our history, both during world wars. Both times the ruling party didn’t keep control but instead a coalition government of varying parties was formed. The strategy of cancelling elections to keep power in the UK therefore doesn’t work, has no evidence to support it, and the ruling party don’t have the public support to even attempt let alone pull off.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_George_ministry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churchill_war_ministry
Yeah but that’s because you’re using logic, reasoning, and commonly understood meanings of words. In Kid Starver’s authoritarian mind none of those things matter.
The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which any Party intellectual would overthrow him in debate, the subtle arguments which he would not be able to understand, much less answer. And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right. The obvious, the silly, and the true had got to be defended. Truisms are true, hold on to that! The solid world exists, its laws do not change. Stones are hard, water is wet, objects unsupported fall towards the earth’s centre.
- 1984, George Orwell
It was bad enough when people would refer to Reddit like it was some homogenous entity with a singular mind, but to do so about a decentralised platform is even more idiotic.
There’s parts of Lemmy you can’t even see because your instance has blocked them.
Available to view here: https://lemmy.world/instances
And then there’s also instances that have defederated from your instance, which don’t show on a neat list like this, for example Beehaw.
So the brazen claim that half of Lemmy is doing anything is idiotic, please stop.
I can, and will, hate both the game and the players.
The players at the top know exactly what they’re doing.
If me, a fucking nobody who reads while taking a shit, in between working all the time to pay the bills can understand what’s going on. There’s no way the richest in society, with the most leisure time and access to the world’s greatest educators etc, don’t.
Aye but there’s only so much you can water down your sampling before it’s ridiculous.
1,282 people is less than the amount normally polled in a country 5 times smaller.
If they only polled 10 people would you be arguing the same or would that be deemed a ridiculously small sample size?
Also bear in mind that they’ve claimed to have weighted the data for 8 categories, some of which have multiple variations within them. And they’ve managed to do all of this with such a small sample size? Utter shite.
I’m not saying I’m opposed to the idea of Americans being against the war, what I’m saying is it’s disingenuous to make authoritative claims, like the headline makes, on such a small sample of data.
Aye, that IPSOS are shite.
They polled 0.00037509% of the population and then make authoritative claims about the entire nation’s sentiments.
They normally poll more people than this in the UK, a country with 5 times less people than the USA. So why so few people for a USA poll?
1,282 polled out of 350 million… This tells us nothing.
Ah, I see the confusion. I’m used to the modern critical definition, not the original.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_exceptionalism#Criticism