It’s pretty wild to watch military footage through the lens of “what if those were cops, and what if the people they were engaging were civilians…?” and realizing that the military shows a relative shit-ton of restraint. Soo many times where the military folks see like a hand reach back into a pocket they can’t see - and they’ll react, by tensing up and getting a hand on their weapon or something… and that’s it… and out comes a wallet from the other dude, military folks understand there’s no threat, and the situation never escalates.

Cops? Dude would have 4 clips unloaded into him by 3 people.

I know cops have their own version of rules of engagement - probable cause and such - but they kinda just don’t give a fuck.

Don’t get me wrong, the military is fucked up in a lot of ways - I was there, it’s fucking bad - but it’s not that kind of bad.

Same page as catloaf - I already did my time and got my honorable discharge. If WW3 breaks out, pretty sure I’ll be getting recalled. So, yes.

Then again, the alternative is wait for shit to destabilize until we get there anyway - again this shit won’t end with Ukraine.

Call Russia’s bluff. If we’re wrong, it’s not like we aren’t fucked anyway. Might as well go down fighting evil, vs going down with evil’s dick in our throat.

*looks at recent presidential election*

…oh yeah. Reality. Pass the lube, my throat is sore as fuck.

Give em full air support. If it causes world war 3, it causes world war 3. Fuck it. Avoiding that isn’t worth letting Russia just consume its neighbors on a whim - that shit certainly won’t stop with Ukraine.

There’s still the UCMJ and rules of engagement. No idea what it takes to change those.

Idk, I’m grasping at straws to find a flicker of hope in this shitstorm.

/shrug.

I’m in my mid 30s now: no idea if it’s normal at this point to remember or forget that stage of childhood.

Yeah for sure - lawful orders only matter if the law is moral, and historically… yeah…

This is one of the examples where I don’t think lawful order training will make a huge difference.

That said, illegal immigrants - even if they’re just as bad a Fox paints them (WHICH IS BULLSHIT), they’re still not a tactical threat, so if there’s any hope from a military perspective of leadership not being on board, it’ll be from a priority standpoint. …which ofc hinges on military leadership not all being replaced with Trump loyalists, so even that’s a short term hope.

Even with all that though, domestically I’m not really worried about the military; it’s the cops I’m worried about. Trump already has a massive, religiously loyal, heavily armed goon squad in every single city in the US. And secondary to them are all the civilian Trumpanzees who’ll respond without question to his stochastic domestic terrorism. This country’s fucked well ahead of military involvement.

Soldiers are humans, and the average human is an evil sack of shit, so yeah there will always be new atrocities. The immigrant thing doesn’t really come down to the individual soldier though, it comes down to military leadership acting on or ignoring an order from Trump… and that outlook doesn’t leave me much hope, cuz military leadership doesn’t give a fuck about doing the right thing, just the legal thing.

If we’re pitching microtransactions as extremist content, I’m on board.

There’s quite a bit of training nowadays on how to identify and abso-fucking-lutely DO NOT follow unlawful orders, so I’d have a fair deal more faith in avoiding the napalm situation than a coin-toss… but there’s also a lot of training on if it’s a legal order you fucking FOLLOW it even if it’s really uncomfortable. …and relocating people who already don’t have a legal status doesn’t stand out as a unlawful order, so unfortunately I’d guess compliance will be around 100% on this one.

Guys I got this pet face-eating-leopard and it keeps trying to eat my face. :(

Money is freedom. It feels a bit icky to attach your love life to that, but your daughter just unlocked a better life-in-general than most of us can have -any- hope for.

She weighed her options and made a decision. More power to her …literally in this case.

Please encourage her to use that power for good.

Mobile dumpsters with a new trash incinerator feature!

…probably just relocating them to the department so they can change back into their cop uniforms.

2016 and the yeas since, but especially the US presidential election that just happened, have absolutely destroyed my faith in the people of my country.

Always figured the govt was fucked, but that the average Joe had a shred of good in him. After the bullshit of the 2016 election, the 4 disastrous years after, and the 4 years following of nonstop Nazi rhetoric from Trump… 74 million of my neighbors decided he’s the guy who represents them; and another 90 million or so decided not to lift a fucking finger to intervene.

No. Good people are a minority. I’m surrounded by hateful bigots who will go as far impairing their own quality of life if it means they can can harm others by doing so. This country and the majority of its inhabitants are evil. We deserve what’s coming.

I have some vague memories from around middle school, but pretty much nothing prior to that.

Highschool and later are locked in, but before that goes from hazy to brick wall real quick.

I’m impressed with the amount of people who can actually remember what they were like as a 10 year old. I’ve got some pictures n’ shit of myself from back then, but honestly that might as well be a completely different person, and I can’t tell you jack about what’s going through their head.

What happens next?

HUGE sigh of relief from the entire planet.

…really not even new. Just the same shitty normal as always.

I was going to post some snark about not putting it past humanity to find a way to set the ocean on fire too, but… wait that sounds familiar… oh yeah, we’ve fucking done it already!