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The Pentagon has summoned military officials from around the world for a gathering in Virginia. Even top generals and their staffs don’t know the reason for the meeting.

  • leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    17 hours ago

    Smells like a purge.

    The kind where they’ll call names, take them outside, and summarily execute them for some invented treason.

    • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
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      16 hours ago

      I mean… the US military is supposed to be anti fascist, and if you’re a general you’ve been there longer than just trumps term, so really they are all anti fascists.

      Antifa is a terrorist organization now, so he’ll round em all up, charge them with treason, and install new generals who’ve never served in the military before.

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        15 hours ago

        The military swears an oath to the constitution, not the president or any man. Which is what my air force friends have been telling me - don’t worry, the forces won’t go fascist. Trump apparently came to the same conclusion and is reducing their forces while he massively ramps up ICE, his new domestic army that DOES swear allegiance to him.

        Which seems like it has implications but I’m no analyst.

        • regedit@lemmy.zip
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          2 hours ago

          The military swears an oath to the constitution, not the president or any man.

          Technically, all of the admin did the same pledge and we see how that’s going.

        • Jack_Burton@lemmy.ca
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          3 hours ago

          Not just ICE. Republicans are talking about putting a Turning Point USA chapter in every school in the country. They’re stacking the next generation with Hitler Youth indocrination to avoid that pesky “loyalty to the constitution”

        • Zron@lemmy.world
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          5 hours ago

          I mean, there’s funding, sure. But I’d put my money on a marine with nothing but flipflops and his privately owned rifle over a ICE goon any day.

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        15 hours ago

        Its actually illegal to be a “Nazi” “Communist” or “Member of a Totalitarian Party” when someone becomes a US Citizen, so I think we should revoke citizenship of all the magats.