6mo ago

Bragg Soldiers Who Cheered Trump's Political Attacks While in Uniform Were Checked for Allegiance, Appearance

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Fort Bragg soldiers screened for aesthetics and political affiliation for better optics

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6mo ago

Bragg Soldiers Who Cheered Trump's Political Attacks While in Uniform Were Checked for Allegiance, Appearance

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6mo ago

Bragg Soldiers Who Cheered Trump's Political Attacks While in Uniform Were Checked for Allegiance, Appearance

www.military.com /daily-news/2025/06/11/bragg-soldiers-who-cheered-trumps-political-attacks-while-uniform-were-checked-allegiance-appearance.html

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- They're army but yes
  
  The Marines are just the Army with a crayon and MRE wrapper addiction.
Translation:
Trump is not able to generate a positive audience response without packing it with loyalists.
Even within the armed forces.
He's fully aware that he's a complete fraud.
Fucking traitors. Every single fucking one of them.
I'm genuinely curious to what extend the societal divide extends into the armed forces. How can can there be trust among soldiers in combat situations if they are diametrically opposed on fundamental things like this.
- I've had people on here assure me that it's impossible, soldiers follow orders and are loyal to the constitution. Sure buds
  
  I would like to speak to some of those ~~cretins~~ ~~morons~~ ~~dumbasses~~ folks regarding some beach front property located in Kansas...
  Spectacular views...
  🙄 🤦‍♀️ 🖕 💩
  
  Opposite statements. Either they follow orders or they are loyal to the constitution. Can't do both right now.
  I can't fathom the industrial amounts of pure propagandium that Americans must have been huffing to think the military will ever be on their side. Blind and unconditional obedience is literally the only way militaries can function properly and everything about them is organized to promote that.
  US military apologists (even before Trump) will say "but soldiers are legally obligated to follow the constitution first and must refuse unlawful orders" like Abu Ghraib didn't happen in my lifetime. We all know that 90 % of soldiers will wipe themselves with the original copy of the declaration of independence if Trump orders them to. And those that refuse will be dishonorably discharged, or worse.
  
  Even so, what happens when it’s impossible to do both?
- The divide absolutely exists. There is a lot of conditioning for following orders and working as a team. That doesn't erase conflicting ideologies, beliefs, or even personality conflict. At the extreme the military will remove outliers from the military, but at the individual level you learn who you trust and who you can rely on. Then you do what you can to mitigate those who you don't trust.
  Militaries all over the world also have a long history of killing their own people for not fitting whatever the group around them wants. Sometimes for justifiable reasons, like incompetent leaders likely to get their subordinates killed. Other times for things like someone being uncomfortable with blatant war crimes.
  There is nothing magical or special about the military. They just have more weapons. So the solutions are violent more often than the average office job.
I remember when we used to hang traitors.
There sure are fucking truck loads of them in that picture.
I remember when the French helped us beat some tyranny away from our borders, and although I wouldn't ask them to get their hands dirty when we start wrestling ourselves, I sure wish we could channel some of their energy into the people who "oppose" things like this.... From their couch.
I long to see French level of protesting here in the states.
I wonder if they did a similar screening when selecting which troops to deploy to LA.
You think "The News" is going to report that? All most people will hear is "big win for the Fat One."
I watched some bit of this earlier in horror and while I was playing a hard game of "spot the differences between this and nazi speeches" I heard Trump mistaking WW1 for WW2. This is the lunatic in charge of the world's biggest army. We are so cooked...

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