cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27899425
Just some North Korea shit, nothing to see here. Move along.
He won’t attend a veteran funeral in favor of going golfing, but he wants a military parade for his birthday.
did he also order spectators to cry of happiness?
JFC, what an asshole.
Just some North Korea shit, nothing to see here. Move along.
You have been banned from Lemmy․ml
Federation be like let a thousand flowers bloom
Doesn’t have to be this way though, wide defederation is the answer for toxic propaganda spreading instances
Sometimes, you just need to kick out the weeds
I have some questions. Will the soldiers all be white cis males? Will they be wearing orange makeup and smell like dirty diapers?
Where is DOGE? This is like Charles Minor coming down on Michael Scott. Trump is just a huge fucking cry baby that needs constant validation. What a fucking loser.
He is doing it as a loyalty test for the military
Next up, the goose step, with jackboots, will be used when marching past the main stage. Over $11 trillion lost and the stupid fuck wants to play army.
A lot of soldiers going to be on sick leave that day.
Where’s DOGE?
Slashing social security to fund this and golfing.
Cutting programs to find funds for this parade
Cutting VA benefits.
“You want your money? Then get out there and march!”
Vets: ok
It’s like poetry, it rhymes.
Anywhere but here. Wouldn’t want to jeopardize the many billions in contracts that the muskrat’s companies have with the department of defense.
Don’t show up, even to protest. He’ll just say everyone showed up for him. Let him have his audience-less parade like a retarded North Korean despot.
how about a nearby protest with the goal of gathering more people than the parade itself? that would piss him off
This is the correct response.
ETA: and I strongly suspect this will happen somehow. So, his birthday is June 14th, so those who can should start making plans to be in DC around then (actual day of parade may be different, so don’t lock in specific dates until there’s more info).
Meanwhile, get ready for your local May 1st protests. (More locations will be certainly be added to that map as the day gets closer).
And until then, there are lots more opportunities to get out and protest.
How protesty!
Tangent!
Hey are you able to use their map on mobile without issue? It’s the worst I’ve used in years. It might treat one finger like two, or none at all. Too tired to email them right now but certainly whack on the latest iOS on a new phone.
Yeah, zooming and planning around works fine for me on android.
Would a protest that involves protesters blocking the parade from moving result in an american tiananmen square?
why would i want to stop Trump of making a fool of himself towards the civilized world? when we can troll him on the issue he cares the more about, after grifting: crowd sizes
Maybe protest and block the parade. This parade feels like bait to start riots. They want riots.
Better to protest in peace and ignore the parade. Just drawing a larger crowd and some good media attention will troll him enough. Concentrate on signs showing ways the money could have been used for good.
An 8 mile nearby protest.
We’ve got one shot, one opportunity
Eminem wakes from a dead sleep covered in sweat
“It’s about to go down!”
palms are sweaty
mum’s spaghetti
Let that man be a grandpa for like 5 mins…
An 8 mile protest in the way.
A protest with signs that point out how much trump hates the military would be good.
The “Real America” protest
What if everyone lined the streets and silently faced the other direction?
That’d be OK if they all simultaneously gave him the brown eye.
We should throw our own parade someplace else. Maybe even call it the Obama parade.
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Some people are mentally deficient. Trump shares some common traits with them. That’s the way the world is. You don’t need to police other people’s comparisons.
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I understand why you think it’s not OK to say and I disagree. Call that what you like. It makes no difference to me.
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It’s not bait to say that I think you’re distracting from an important conversation by trying to play morality police on behalf of a group of people who didn’t ask for help restricting the language used on the internet. You took that upon yourself and decided that this was the time to try to shame everyone else into thinking the same way you do. Quit virtue signaling about ancillary bullshit and get pissed at your government.
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What a man baby.
what a perfect opportunity to establish a military coup and take back control of our government from fascists.
opportunities don’t get much better than this folks.
I don’t have the statistics, but generally, the Police and the Military are turned toward far right. I’m pretty sure most of them voted for Trump and are happy with everything that’s going one. And the financing of both haven’t decreased
In Turkey, the military seized control on a few occasions to protect the secularism of the state from religious whackos. It should have done the same to Erdogan, but he got his lackeys into place to prevent it.
Hashtag just dictator things
So a perfect time for a military coup? 🤞
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They hope someone will else do it for them.
Oh, yeah? Me and what army?
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The people the government derives it’s power from the consent of
Do a headcount of which citizens are on which side. Rationality and empathy exist in bubbles, not a sea. Most of the population is really just that plain dumb and/or sadistic and apparently has grown in numbers and magnitude since last time. The side you’re rooting for also will almost always pull their punches whereas the other side simply doesn’t. Give me a deus ex machina fairy tale dream to cling onto because those in power with the big guns and tanks and bombs lust for hurting people and they’ve got the majority of the masses tricked into happily getting themselves and others trampled upon.
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In case you haven’t figured it out yet, the military is fine with trump.
Please, I have only so little hope left
As much as we would love to believe the officer’s oath (and the enlisted oath, diluted as it is by the president clause) carries water and protects us, the historical precedent of militaries says troops are loyal to their paychecks and, to a somewhat lesser extent, benefits. As long as the soldiers continue to be financially compensated, they won’t rebel and will actively work against rebellions. When they stop being compensated, they’ll become passive and will step aside for a rebellion. Some may even defect and join the rebellion, but only if they think its success will benefit them. Sorry to be cynical, but without a strong charismatic and revered general or admiral to follow, troops will never self-activate to “defend their oath.”
Look up the fall of Samuel Doe in Liberia or the Vodka rebellion leading up to Kerensky’s coup in Russia. The military is ever just hired goons. If the military were truly a circuit breaker against illegal autocracy, then they’d be doing exercises and drills to train for the day they’d have to “defend the constitution” from a domestic threat. To my knowledge, no such “uncoup the coup” drill has ever been conducted.
To my knowledge, no such “uncoup the coup” drill has ever been conducted.
Why would it be expected that you would have knowledge of such a thing?
I’d wager my odds of knowing are better than that of the average person, but it’s true, lack of knowledge does not represent lack of existence. It would be nice if some special units somewhere train exactly for that scenario.
Didn’t they all just see their retirements get obliterated before even becoming vets?
Yeah, he just gutted the VA along with everything else.
How so? As far as I know, the 20-year pension plan is still in place. And yeah, the TSP equity funds were affected, but you’d be surprised how ignorant and apathetic a huge portion of military members are about the TSP and completely unaware of vehicles like the Roth IRA. Plus, that’s all future money, in some case far future. Much less personal impact, as it’s easier to think only about the present. That’s why many aren’t getting all worked up about loss of earned benefits that will only matter years from now once they’ve been discharged. Plus, many Jr enlisted don’t have enough discretionary income to even contribute to a TSP on a meaningful level.
I don’t think that’s an accurate statement. Maybe most of the enlisted people are, but a very large percentage of the officers hate him. He is their commanding officer, and they openly insult him. They ridicule him constantly and talk about how terrible his decisions are. They joke about how stupid the SecDef’s plans are. And they do all this in front of their superior officers.
The officers make an oath about defending the constitution, but they also hold very strongly to their duty to protect the people they command. Trump puts those people in jeopardy for no damn reason, so many hate him for that.
