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[-] somename@hexbear.net 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I don't exactly have high faith in the US military to even look after their own interests, but do you think there's ever some point where a coup would be considered? If they tried to purge enough of the ranking leaders, that they decided to do an alternative rather than take it?

I doubt it, as there isn't really a tradition of coups in the country, and I doubt there's a wide ideological push in the generals. But maybe I guess, if they're going to lose everything, or if like Trump would torpedo the military through something incredibly stupid?

I'm doubtful of that at all really, but the they are also the only ones other than the executive branch with any actual power in the country. Maybe a few ambitious ones will figure that out, that if they do it, they'd probably instantly succeed.

shrug-outta-hecks

[-] jack@hexbear.net 25 points 1 week ago

A true coup seems out of the question for the reasons you gave, but I think some sort of "quiet coup" where the military leadership mass refuses purges is possible. A sort of leadership 'strike', where they openly or covertly shut this effort down and restrain the executive by not going along. Hegseth has absolutely no legitimacy among brass, who see him as a drunken loser with no right to the top spot, and among the rank and file, who see him as a drunken loser with no concern for their safety or well being.

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

but do you think there's ever some point where a coup would be considered?

This has all been memory-holed but the US military displayed fears of a coup around January 6th, going so far as to deploy ships to the US shores and to actively prevent deployment of anyone they knew was pro-maga.

Whether any of that was based on legitimate fears we will never know. But the US military seems to consider it realistically possible for a coup to happen by some elements of itself against the US.

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[-] Blakey@hexbear.net 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

googled hegseth and apparently he has a Bowel Action from Princeton and a Master's of Peepee and Poopoo from Harvard. You should all be ashamed of yourself for being mean to this eminently qualified super clever boy!

[-] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 week ago

The escalator did nothing wrong!!!!!

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[-] DerRedMax@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago

Probably just really serious about returning to the office.

[-] WildWeezing420@hexbear.net 20 points 1 week ago

All the Generals quiet quitting smdh

[-] 30_to_50_Feral_PAWGs@hexbear.net 20 points 1 week ago

Since entering office, the Trump administration also has fired the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr.

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[-] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 week ago
[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 20 points 1 week ago

Xi please defeat the US military and liberate mainland usa from fascism.

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[-] laziestflagellant@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago

Did they get a memo from all the military poindexters they have monitoring climate change saying that the chance of entering the global cool zone in the next five years has gone up to 95%?

[-] miz@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

it would be really funny if the generals arrive at the meeting and there's a margarita tower set up for each one

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[-] CrookedSerpent@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago

Concerning. Looking into this...

[-] coolusername@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago
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