Uhhhhh genuinely don't know how the fuck this is even possible. Basically acting as mercenaries at this point :amerikkka:
https://www.axios.com/gop-megadonor-south-dakota-troops-border-21881b13-f0d8-461f-a7af-fe6288b5bcbd.html
lmao, we've always said the US armed forces are for hire, but this it taking the piss
It's wild on so many levels, I also didn't even know national guards can go to other states unless it's an emergency disaster relief shit.
They've been in Japan and South Korea for 70 years as mercs for hire.
and they've been in America 250 years as mercs for hire
Eh, it wasn't until the Spanish-American War that things got off the ground. The US government used to disband most of the army after a war. The US Navy was frequently put in the position of having to purchase merchant ships and put cannons on them when a war broke out. And Congress would barely give them any money.
Not any more! WWI and especially WWII took care of that permanently.
vague memory like there was some late Roman equivalent of this happening
Going through Mike Duncan's History of Rome has really shown how the fall of the Roman empire was partially caused by the Roman armies basically just going towards the best paying person. Still gotta finish though so I might be wrong in my theory.
Brb starting a Patreon to get the Coast Guard and Army Corps of Engineers to sink TERF Island.
Holy shit I've memory holed this but this happens in all :anglo-burn: militaries. You can pay a regiment to be something called an honorary colonel in most places or colonel in chief if you're Bri'ish. Some units also have honorary lieutenant colonels. Basically the idea is these people are either retired senior officers from the unit at some point or made a big donation to either a unit fund - usually named after the unit and is typically used for things like trips to WW1/2 sites, fancy dress uniforms or other ceremonial items, and various things the military doesn't really want to pay for like speakers, crates of boutique liquor, or paraphernalia - or they donate to mess (bar) funds so the dudes in the unit get a bunch of free drinks/nice tables I guess. These days you have senior officers looking to get people who might bring in many small donations from other places as well - typically advanced athletes - to fill this role as well, though that is clearly not happening here lol
So the pay-to-enter system was already there, I guess it was only a matter of time until we get something like this. Racist billionaire bankrolling american empire and racist officers wanting to exert racism, in a system that would allow it under an administration who doesn't care. :amerikkka:
Lol sponsoring a military unit like we do with boy scout groups sounds about right
I always thought it was funny that the marines explicitly disallowed that stuff (moto patches, anything more than rank insignia and maybe logistics group square things) while also being all sorts of more bloodthirsty, or at least stereotypically so
Duplicating doctrine but louder and dumber etc. I've never had the chance to work with American marines, but they're probably no more [insert aggressive adjective here] than the army. I don't think I've ever seen anyone actually wear a morale patch on their uniform, and even outside of their duties. Maybe like, on a backpack or something.
You're probably right. A lot of army guys I saw didn't have anything more than the bare required patches. And even though my prior cult participation would make me think that the marines are more disciplined, I don't think I can honestly believe it anymore.
Funnily enough this is a good deal how some roman legions were paid during its decline. So history is a circle in some aspects.
What if we pay the military to go someplace else, then establish communism?
Holy shit guys, I just found like a million antifas down in uhhh... antarctica we need to deploy the entire military down there for at least 2 years
make sure to look real hard antifas hide really well. they're there, trust me
They're wearing black and white and taking potshots with Mosins before vanishing back into the penguin colony.
the deployment will be paid for by a private donation
words never meant anything and continue to not mean things
I am going to donate some money to Mcdolan for some fronch fries
US troops have been mercs for a long time. Who do you think paid for them to be stationed in Japan and South Korea?
Really curious what Governor Greg "I'm sending the Texas Military to monitor Jade Helm" Abbott thinks about this.
That is not a “deployment.” Yes they are deploying troops, but they are using the same rhetoric they do when they send troops overseas. It’s just using rhetoric to trick people into believe the border is 1000x worse than what it is, and to muster support by invoking patriotism/defending our freedoms with the racism of Hispanic and Latinos, rather than Arabic/Muslims.
