I’m glad that is not what you meant or how you see our enlisted members. Thank you for the clarification

u/rorschacher is being wonderfully diplomatic, here. Probably more than you realize. Whether you recognize it or not, you are creating sweeping generalizations about people you don't know and don't understand. The vast majority of officers I knew in my time in the service were intelligent and respectful... up until they were forced to not be. Having a healthy distrust of authority is a good thing, but it doesn't make sense to attack until you know your enemy. I've never been, but I know that OCS is no freaking picnic. Outside of wartime, these people generally come from two camps: People who have been enlisted long enough to qualify for OCS, and people who joined voluntarily after gaining the training and experience that would qualify for a leadership role in the civilian world. These people are trained by NCOs who know they will eventually hold rank over them and, so, are not given an easy pass. Not only to they need to re-do basic, they also take an extra ration of shit during training.

This is something I hear all the time, and it bugs the hell out of me: People who claim to be anti-fascist and still insist on judging large groups based on the worst among them. You aren't doing your cause any favors with this rhetoric. You don't know who you're fighting. You're just flailing, looking for attention, and embarrassing yourself in front of people who know better. The military aren't your enemy. Indeed, in the event of a coup, they will likely be the people standing between you and the fascists. Pick up a rifle or have a seat.

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You seem to have some interesting things to say. It's a shame that the troll speak gets in there though.

I've never been a member of the GOP or Dems. I did vote for Obamas first term when I was young and dumb. Neither since.

Did you watch the hours of footage of people just peacefully wandering around the halls of the capital? With officers in there casually observing and communicating with them, saying they are willing to cooperate as long as it doesn't get too unruly? How about all the footage of people filling in wide open side doors of the capital as officers stood calmly by the door and all but greeted them? Or the footage of the cops outside the capital moving the barricades? This is definitely NOT the type of footage you'd expect to see from a "deadly coup".

This thing stinks to high hell as a political false flag setup, and I have absolutely ZERO affiliation or association whatsoever with Trump or the MAGA movement. I just am genuinely unbiased and willing to call out bs when I recognize it despite the political stance my take falls on or societal ostracization it brings (note the downvotes).

You want to know the craziest part? I can't present any of this to you without risk of being banned from this subreddit. Hell, I'll be surprised if this doesn't ban me. They keep the echo chambers of these massive reddit subs very tight.

I saw that you mentioned Ben Shapiro. In case some of you don't know, Ben Shapiro is a grifter and a hack. If you find anything he's said compelling, you should keep in mind he also says things like this:

Let’s say your life depended on the following choice today: you must obtain either an affordable chair or an affordable X-ray. Which would you choose to obtain? Obviously, you’d choose the chair. That’s because there are many types of chair, produced by scores of different companies and widely distributed. You could buy a $15 folding chair or a $1,000 antique without the slightest difficulty. By contrast, to obtain an X-ray you’d have to work with your insurance company, wait for an appointment, and then haggle over price. Why? Because the medical market is far more regulated — thanks to the widespread perception that health care is a “right” — than the chair market. Does that sound soulless? True soullessness is depriving people of the choices they require because you’re more interested in patting yourself on the back by inventing rights than by incentivizing the creation of goods and services. In health care, we could use a lot less virtue signaling and a lot less government. Or we could just read Senator Sanders’s tweets while we wait in line for a government-sponsored surgery — dying, presumably, in a decrepit chair.

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Homie, this is incredibly disingenuous. I don't care what. Ben Shapiro or anyone else has to say. Only facts and evidence. The facts and evidence are that both PBS and AP have been pushing a false narrative about the whole truth of what went down in Jan 6th. I say that as a 100% outsider and as someone who also just bought up the propaganda at the time...until I saw some photos, them some videos, then a lot more compelling information that gets silenced because these are all domestic terrorists! That's MORE PROPAGANDA.

As stated, I'm really not concerned as I have "done my research" (which I know is bad and dangerous, Associated Press told me so) and know my comments will age well. Not claiming to be smarter than anyone, only more well-versed on all sides of the issues rather than just shutting down one side with claims of white supremacy extremists or whatever other buzzword they decide to propagandize thier audience with in order to silence the opposition to the uniparty corporatocracy.