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  • zephorah@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    As someone who is supposed to be there to defend American ideals, shouldn’t he be happy the kids are exercising those ideals and voting? It means he’s doing his job well. And yet this.

    Rather worrisome regarding Trumps future use of the military against Americans he doesn’t like. Shows a willing level of aggression there that is disturbing.

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      2 months ago

      That’s working under the generous assumption he was there to protect American ideals, and not to fulfill his dream of shooting brown people.

    • borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 months ago

      He’s also apparently forgetting that the vast majority of people stomping around in the sandbox for 20 years were people around this age, doing it in 2-3 pumps over 4 year enlistments then rotating into 1st civ div and getting high as fuck bc their backs always hurt.

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 months ago

      This was actually cultivated in the aughts. George W. Bush endorsed multiple secret units of Christian soldiers from the US Army and USMC to serve as Chosen do perform missions for God, which is why Spiritual Readiness was figured into the CSFF readiness assessment.

      Spiritual readiness was about being a Christian Evangelical loyalist (that is the white Christian nationalist movement we’re facing today). Commanders were reassigned in the Obama era, and Spiritual Readiness was revised to become more inclusive (they’d still really rather you believe in some higher power), but the units of commandos for God are still around.

      I dunno what happened during Trump or since, but since Flynn is still doing Flynn things, I assume they’re standing back and standing by.