Active duty military here. You're out of your mind if you think there won't immediately be a coup if that order gets passed.
wanderingmagus
Something you shouldn't be talking about on Lemmy.
Defund the pigs.
Okay, then, is Nazi Germany a democracy? It has votes, after all. How about fascist Italy? Is that a democracy?
Nah, not riot. Riots are disorganized, and often hurt the local community and neighborhood rather than the actual perps. Look up your local chapter of the SRA and attend.
Yes please. We're trying, we're in the streets, but yes please.
What is, de facto, stopping them, if they decide the Constitution and the law are toilet paper to wipe their asses with?
I'd like to see the government that failed in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq try to take out a real insurgency on the home front. Every garbage bag an IED, every car a bomb.
Can't enact disproportionate violence if at least half the military mutinies. And that's no longer the impossibility it used to be.
Unironically yes. There's someone out there who is on the other side of the digital divide that would absolutely want any kind of access to what you currently take for granted.
In my division, everyone unanimously agrees that the administration is absolutely stupid and indefensible. Of those, every last one would outright defy any order to "kill half the population". We talk about it all the time - including with my Chief. ~60% of the officers I speak to also believe that the administration is conducting unlawful actions, and about 70% believe the administration is engaging in actions harmful to the socioeconomic and geopolitical standing of the USA. >80% of the enlisted personnel in other divisions at my command likewise agree that the administration is making stupid and indefensible decisions, and all of them would outright defy any order to "kill half the population".
Any other questions, civilian?