Ah the point being that to MAGA, we're not SUPPOSED to be democratic.
They actually thing we're SUPPOSED to have people tread all over us regardless of what we want.
And they say democracy would take away THEIR rights!
The bomber of little girls has to be able to prove in a court martial that they did not fire because THAT SPECIFIC TARGET was an illegal target. How do you do that two or five miles away? You can't.
The general officers need dealing with, not captains or non-coms.
And how do you determine the SPECIFIC people you're told to target are not legal targets in front of a court martial?
You can't just say "everyone in Iran is illegal to target". They'll just say "What's your evidence?"
and you have nothing.
Non-rhetorical question
That's how you end imprisoned.
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So...no concerns energy companies aren't already ripping people off by putting in huge swathes of renewables and then charging as if we were paying for fossil fuels then?
Precisely. You cannot refuse to fix the avionics on a plane because a war is illegal.
OMG.
Do you think a drone pilot can read the sign on the front of a building and see a bunch of girls playing out front?
They get told "Target 6 - govt target"
That's it.
The fault lies with intel and/or the ones who pick the targets. Targeting systems are good - they're NOT THAT good.
I'm doing it again.
You have to prove YOUR ORDER OR ACTION is illegal.
"Maintain that Comms network" is not an illegal order." "Load those rockets" is not illegal.
You're looking at the wrong end. A Senior Airman can't refuse to fill a Humvee gas tank because a "war is illegal".
This isn't Mai Lai
Yep. The non-coms would have to KNOW their target was unarmed to refuse to launch.
It has to be a Mai Lai - type situation.
And none of these actions are that.
did after the Nazis lost.
A NEW government, new Constitution, elections, laws, EVERYTHING.
And that would take - at best - a military coup. At worst, it would be a civil war. But there are no standing armies on both sides.
Think Rwanda, but 20x larger.
America. TECHNICALLY, if they "win" the government would legally have to prosecute the generals who "saved" the country.
This isn't a movie.
They only way "legally" they can do it without prosecution is start an entirely new government - and I don't mean REPLACING the leaders.
I mean like Germany
You're right about the military not coming to save us.
Their generals would have to rebel...and the minute they do, legally THEY are breaking the law. And any colonels or captains/commodores who obey them knowing the generals have rebelled would ALSO be carrying out rebellion.
Even if it's to save
legal target SPECIFICALLY, you're going to Leavenworth.
You cannot just refuse to take part in a whole action and claim it's "unconstitutional". Members don't get to make that judgement.
Guess who does?
It's not a staff sergeant or a lance corporal.
done for mutiny.
The orders YOU receive specifically must be illegal.
Worse, if you're a drone pilot you have to prove the SPECIFIC TARGET you've been told to attack Israel an illegal target. If you can't convince a court martial that that ONE target is illegal and you don't have proof it IS NOT a
It does not work that way.
You can't just refuse to participate because the war is unconstitutional.
You can refuse SPECIFIC orders that are illegal. You can't refuse "load that plane" because it's being used to bomb someone.
The order to load the plane isn't illegal.
If they tried this they'd be
Oh, I don't know.
Freeing the Taliban and then handing Afghan back behind the backs of the govt we spent 20y and $3tn putting in place while betraying the Kurds to make Biden look bad is pretty crazy.
Attacking Iraq to get Saddam back for not dying when Bush Jr's daddy attacked is pretty lame too.
“…real failure is that the richest & most powerful nation in world — nation that has led the world since WW II & established the postwar international order emphasizing multilateralism, democracy, human rights, & rule of law — is now being led by a rogue president who rejects all these values.”
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Coming up on 30 years since the Dunblane school shooting massacre (13th March 1996) and watching another documentary about it. The families wanted to end legal handgun ownership and we passed those laws. We’ve not had a school shooting since. I ache for all Americans who cannot get this done there.
To be fair, they spent four years and several times that replacing the Taliban with the Taliban.
Oh, and betraying the Kurds. They did that in ten days this time, top.
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Shocked. Shocked, I say.
Carl withdrew from the nomination process today.
Hegseth said the other day the ones who should be worrying in Iran are those who think they are going to survive.
They want to obliterate Iran entirely to the last child.
This is the guy who likes to downplay non-fatal injuries suffered by US service members in combat.
I agree. Unfortunately, it's hard to do at that volume of victims. Perhaps just go for low-rent air locking: defenestration.
Low-income people are a third of the population.
I suggest people at THE TOP THIRD are the ones who don't understand navigating the real world. Trump didn't know the fucking word "groceries" and thinks gas prices had dropped.
Union workers solved the trolley problem, you're welcome
Guillotines were designed to be humane.
I don't care. Pits full of fire are far more efficient. A thousand at a time.
When 3m people have more wealth than the actual GDP of the nation they live in, guess who runs that nation?
Trump doesn’t have the ability to dictate when the war is over.
