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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (11 children)

I'll never understand why someone could actually want to put effort into dividing the American populace from the America military right now

Like, even if you don't know about how many non US citizens are in the US military...

It's seems obvious that the better plan would be getting military on the side of the populace and not the fascists rather than driving the military towards the fascists.

I've been trying to figure out a reason for a while, because these posts aren't uncommon.

But I can't come up with a reason that wouldn't be against civility rules if I posted it.

[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Because you can never trust or rely on an ally who's on your side because you are being nice to them instead of because they have some kind of scruples.

It's no better than say, sucking up to someone with a peace award in the hopes they don't start a war.

[–] GardenVarietyAnxiety@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

This meme made me feel empathetic to those in the military, not divided.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The Iraq war the way the Republicans (especially in the military) defended George W Bush and continued to support republicans after the as mind boggling.

[–] mattyroses@lemmy.today 2 points 2 days ago

Iraq wasn't just the GOP. Most Democratic leaders - including Hillary Clinton and Biden - supported and voted for it

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's seems obvious that the better plan would be getting military on the side of the citizens and not the fascists rather than driving the military towards the fascists.

That's the better plan, as long as they're willing to denounce American imperialism. If criticizing the imperialism they're cooperating with is enough to push them away, then they're less than worthless as an ally. Also some of us aren't American and don't care about the health of liberal democracy in your murderous neocolonial empire.

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Trump already gutted most of the senior leadership in the American military that wouldn't dance to his tune. Plus the American military already has a bunch of right leaning uneducated idiots that are more than willing to 'just follow orders'.

I wouldn't expect anything much out of them honestly. Like most things what Americans portray and what they do is pretty different. It's just a couple steps away from calling themselves the Democratic Republic of America.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 1 points 2 days ago

It’s just a couple steps away from calling themselves the Democratic Republic of America.

They would NEVER call themselves anything that has the word 'Democrat' within it.

[–] clot27@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Americans wont be able to do shit regardless

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

You can't think of anything they could do.

That's different and it's incredible naive for you to think the only things that could happen are the things you can think of.

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[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

More war in the sandbox coming soon

[–] orioler25@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Why did you call it that?

[–] FrChazzz@lemmus.org 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not the poster, but I'm going to assume they say so because: "Middle East has lots of sand = sandbox" with the additional layer of meaning of "sandbox" as a place where children play and make stuff up, implying (perhaps) that the Middle East tends to be the place where the wealthy and powerful "play around," treating the people who live there (and the war machine they bring to it) as toys for their (sick) amusement. At least this is how I read it.

[–] orioler25@lemmy.world -2 points 2 days ago

Yes, I'm saying that using the term is obviously problematic as it has been used to devalue the space in dozens of countries and the lives of millions of people. This commenter made this comment as though they're critical of US imperialism but reproduced its enforced understanding of these regions.

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