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I've been worrying about this. They'll use conscription to draft anyone anti-maga to fight and use other nations like Iran to do the fighting. If they resist they'll be imprisoned.
Russia does the same.
DOGE was part of the data gathering scheme for things like this.
Agreed. There was a reason for that shit, and not a 'finding government waste' reason.
Fragging
I wonder how much this actually happens though. Does no one ask, "wait...should we really be giving our political opposition access to and training with heavy weaponry?"
Your mistake is thinking they'd even hand you a sharp stick in this scenario.
True. In Russia they may give you the empty weapon, prod you to the APC, lock it then drop the mags inside from the top.
They've definitely thought all about this, sadly.
It’s funny because they could build armies of liberals and the conservatives and far left would be okay with it.
Centrists like you are just alt-righters
What do you get out of saying stupid shit like that that even you know is stupid?
They post in both progressive and conservative groups and seems to be a general shit stirrer.
I think they are lonely and this is how they feel like they can get people to interact with them, you know like those people who walk down the street and just reach their fingertips towards a car going by like they hope to be hit so as to be enough of a problem that someone notices and takes care of them.
Interesting.
What kind of conservative stuff do they post?
Their hand quivers, and they can feel their legs shake, "Maybe this is the time" they think to themselves, if they can find the courage that is.
Maybe it will end like a meet-cute and the future love their life will get out their car and help them out and pick them up and send them on a glorious adventure.
Or maybe it will just sever their spine and it will be over.
But! The driver will remember them and their face for the rest of their life, their death having given meaning to their existence as the driver will go on to travel the world and have the adventure of a lifetime in response to this random stranger they collided with. Knowing that even if its not personally lived but that the adventure was had by their presence...
But their daydreams are snapped out by the sound of a car horn and the engine roaring past.
The moment is gone but the heart still flutters and the adrenaline pumps through their veins, less than the first time they thought about this but enough to still feel the rush of life they don't live. "There is always the next car," they think, "maybe, this time I will try yelling at them."
Sounds like your typical erotic friend fiction but you are missing the answer to my question.
Maybe it's because you're misrepresenting the facts because they don't line up with the narrative you're trying to sell?
... They're not wrong, you are misunderstanding what they are saying.
Conservative MAGAs hate liberals, they actively want them to die.
Leftists also hate liberals, and either also actively want them to die, or don't care if they die.
Thus... if a bunch of liberals get drafted and die in a war... the conservatives will be thinking "good, force them to do our bidding", and the leftists will be thinking "if these clowns aren't going to revolt against their 'sacred institutions' at this point, they never will, fuck em."
They are agreeing with the comment they're replying to, that the internal political management strat that Putin uses in Russia would also work in the US.
Also, for anyone confused: A US liberal is a centrist.
Ahh.. a closet right winger trying to push the "both sides are the same" bullshit, in defiance of facts, evidence, and reason.