https://twitter.com/MaajidNawaz/status/1436268205111226372?s=19

Edit: also this is just all wrong https://twitter.com/Aviation_Intel/status/1436426248964608002?s=19

    • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I truly hate Fall of Rome analogies, but this is really like how the soldiers became super entitled and shit, and basically went rogue to which ever general was strongest.

      • bort_simp_son [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        Modern American Generals are basically lower executives at a Fortune 500 company. I literally can't imagine any of them declaring themselves the next Caesar, much less a sizeable number of troops declaring their fealty to them.

        • Alaskaball [comrade/them]
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          3 years ago

          I don't really know many current generals that are remotely popular with their soldiers to mobilize them on their behalf since generals tend to be more on the administrative side than strategic side nowadays.

          Now if you ask me if a few hoggish Colonel or Captains could mobilize their troops to do something dumb I'd say hell yeah, let the 30-50 hogs go wild

        • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          This I feel is more in line with the Praetorian guard starting to basically be loyal to the highest payer and looking out for themselves more than the empire. I don't think this is evidence of an anti-vax fifth column in the military. Just some cranks for now, who knows about the future? Also wasn't there some general or officer mad about the Afghan withdrawal, or am I just making something up in my head.

    • happybadger [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Multiple days of mandatory shots/surgeries and a repertoire of marching cadences about being killed for the decision they just made. Of all the antivaxxers I think these might be the most pathetic ones. The Chinese aren't going to be shooting kisses and rainbows at your little lordship's F-22. It's things that will hurt you even more than whatever could be in one more vaccine. What an absolute liability to any kind of group, let alone one that they claim is the spearpoint of the empire.

      • LoudMuffin [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        The Chinese aren’t going to be shooting kisses and rainbows at your little lordship’s F-22

        Most of these people unironically think Chinese people are stone age savages who will throw rocks at the sky in response to an invasion before stealing the blueprints to an F22 and then promptly crashing because "Chinese people can't drive"

        I genuinely think the US is going to be in for a hell of a surprise if fights a war against an industrialized power again, it seems like in Afghanistan they would get pinned down and then just airstrike people who can't do anything back, what are they gonna do when others do the exact same thing

        • happybadger [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          With as hard as they run 7th Fleet, I can't imagine it surviving a first encounter against Chinese missiles. That puts us back at Guam or Hawaii to fight an offensive war against the country that makes everything. It'd be lost from the first shot if the US is stupid enough to fire.

    • a_maoist_quetzal [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      no way would they even question being given nerve poisons again like in the first gulf war if this hadn't become such a political moron button issue at home, its all brainworms