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

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

  • happybadger [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Officers can submit a request to resign their commission. That one marine who criticised the Afghanistan withdrawal to be a Fox News pundit publicly did that. There's just no guarantee that it will be accepted. If the military wants to punish you, and especially if they want to set an example with you, they can reject the request and proceed with a court martial to eject/imprison/execute.

    I'd lean heavily toward the latter happening. We haven't had real punishment against deserters since like WW2, but given the gravity of the pandemic and how unfounded/propagandised antivaxxers are I can see them pursuing it as a huge threat to good order and discipline. GVAGUY3's parallel to the collapse of Rome represents a breakdown of the general chain of command. That's an existential threat to the entire military, let alone the physical one to its individual troops and assets.

    • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I don't really think there will be a huge threat to order and discipline in the military. There will be a few crazies that might get an actual punishment, but I think most will just decide just to get the vaccine because they are too cowardly to face a punishment.

      • happybadger [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        To me it points to a trend in the same way gang affiliation and MAGA shit does. They've got a dual allegiance and the other thing is in direct conflict with the needs of the military. The shit they're tapped into to make them antivaxxers isn't limited to specific well-grounded safety concerns or that vaccine in particular or vaccines in general. It's conspiracy theories about big brother trying to control you when you're supposed to be big brother operating the satellites. Eventually that manifests into not being able to deploy the military to protect the capitol because you can't guarantee that unit won't go rogue and defend the people storming it. With antivaxxers you're putting them in cramped quarters with people for months at a time, in many different places that have varying COVID responses. One of my naval hospitals covered most of an entire fleet and we had like six ICU beds. Two respiratory techs working in rotating shifts, two operating rooms, no cardiologist or mortician. Any outbreak on any ship in that AO would cripple the only hospitals they can rely on. Who knows what form that antivax sentiment will take as the mandates become more offensive, and everyone knows how they'll respond to every future crisis now.