One of the biggest lessons I think the last two years have been really illustrative of is that there's never going to be a popular uprising by the military in this country. The Troops are never going to disobey illegal orders, nobody's going to clap Trump in irons doing a liberal coup from the left

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In an era characterized by desperate wishcasting, the idea that the US military is going to somehow take a principled stand over any of this stuff might be the most desperate and wishcastiest thing of them all

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Everybody keeps going "oh so Trump's gonna cut their bonuses and stick them on a boat for 200 days and make them eat dogfood, I wonder how that's historically worked out for wannabe dictators," but like, here's the thing...it does work out, it HAS worked out, for him. The troops are 100% bitchmade

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Shades of when DOGE was gutting things and violating all sorts of classified state-level shit and people were like "why doesn't the CIA redacted these guys???" Sorry, but none of this country's strategic ghoul reserve actually care about this stuff the way you do, strange bedfellows aren't happening

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