Title: Retired general warns the U.S. military could lead a coup after the 2024 election

Only in communist countries do they politically brainwash their soldiers.

  • Ploumeister [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    A lot of military grunts are people of color and poor people who joined for salary and free college so I’m not shocked by that and I don’t think a large chunk of the military would go along with an order to establish the fourth reich if they got one

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      3 years ago

      You only need a relatively small slice of the pie to overthrow a government if you're better organized and more prepared than the majority. If ten guys show up with machine guns and order a hundred guys to stay in their barracks or die then the ten guys usually win.

    • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      This right here, yeah you got military chuds (they get filtered into horror wetwork shit and become media darlings) but most veterans I met going to college out of the force were either leftist or left leaning and pretty based (actually got War is a Racket recommended to me by one of the guys when I was helping out at the veteran college center). Add in that veterans deal with shit structural treatment when they return while peeps kiss their ass but give them no material benefits and it can lead to some cognitive dissonance to set in.