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.

  • Husski_Heresy [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    This is funny because in my second year of law school we spent the last half of the trimester on Marxism in the property law class. The first half of the class was dedicated to showing that capitalism was just an extension of fuedalism and just an exchange of hands in regards to property. It's been a while, I'll have to reread my notes from the class.

    • SoyViking [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      We had the aforementioned half-assed class for a semester or two where they would touch on topics like "what is property?" and "what is law?" but all in all legal education was very unreflected and the concept of justice in any moral or philosophical sense was treated as a complete joke. We learned all the nuts and bolts of capitalist class justice that would make us good lawyers and bureaucrats but nothing that would make us challenge the existing order.

      • Husski_Heresy [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        Yeah, aside from that once class, all of my law school has been focused on the little details of the law and setting us up to be alright at our jobs and stuff. However i was very silly and took a double degree of law and criminology, so its kinda funny to have all the law classes teach as if the Law is for all intents and purposes perfect and just, and then go across campus to the criminology class and be taught its all lies. I have to say though, I'm surprised that my criminology degree hasn't gone all in on the " muh personal responsibility" aspect of criminological theories.

        • SoyViking [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          I think that is because "muh personal responsibility" is just a dumbass reactionary opinion and not a conclusion one can honestly arrive at from looking at the actual data on crine. Academia is full of power-serving ghouls but there are also lots and lots of nerds who just want to find out how stuff works.

          • Husski_Heresy [she/her]
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            3 years ago

            Yeah, it's definitely just dumbass reactionaries jerking each other off over what they think cause crime, and i remember going over some Including phrenology, although it was a "look at it and laugh" thing but by and large all the theories taken seriously were about how material conditions and poverty cause crime. And i agree, being one of those nerds who wants to know why stuff happens and how.