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  • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nltopolitics @lemmy.world•Republican senators break ranks to call for investigation of Signal leak scandal
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    9 days ago

    So then it comes down to whether enough military personnel will have the morals to stand up to fascist orders from the executive branch and disobey them, displaying that they are at odds, or if they will simply obey unlawful, fascist orders to not get prosecuted under the UCMJ.

    Also, I would be extremely hesitant to believe that the host of pilots, mechanics, MPs, and logistics did not notice at all women and children being dragged in chains, likely crying, and if on-video behavior is anything to go by, also likely being harassed by ICE handlers and thought there was nothing wrong enough to bring it up to their COs. Cargo is quickly inspected at the very least. And the fact that they didn’t have any prior clearance to land at the airport they were going to… They aren’t complete idiots…

    Sorry, but these things do not happen quietly. That is like saying the train drivers and the people loading them into the cars carrying the Jews only knew they were carrying “personnel, material” and happened to be going to “a labor camp”.

  • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nltopolitics @lemmy.world•Republican senators break ranks to call for investigation of Signal leak scandal
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    9 days ago

    Sorry, but it doesn’t matter one. single. bit. that the US military “isn’t a monolithic entity” if, when it comes down to it, they act like a monolithic entity and follow corrupt, unlawful, and treasonous orders like how the USAF has been wordlessly transporting kidnapped legal residents and greencard holders to foreign countries without any semblance of legal process or even a criminal act done.

    US military personnel love saying “we don’t follow unlawful orders” who have never had to make that decision until they are given an illegal order and they follow it. Just see every war that the US (and most other nations to be honest) had ever fought and what is currently going on.

    It is the exact same as the argument of ACAB. If there are 50 “good” people who actively shield, enable, and do nothing about 50 “bad” people doing horrible, illegal, and/or immoral things, you have 100 bad people.

  • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nltopolitics @lemmy.world•Senate Democrat says White House is ‘arm of Kremlin’
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    1 month ago

    And yet when the republicans were in the same minority situation, they have been able to block tons of major government functions, judicial appointments, and laws being passed. When the dems were in power they needed right wing compromises somehow because “otherwise the republicans would block it”.

    The past 40 years have literally been lesson after lesson on how to completely make the machine grind to a halt when you have an opposition party. They choose to take not one single lesson from it and not lift a single finger when it matters.

  • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nltoNews@lemmy.world•'The Daily Show' accepts Musk's terms for interview with Stewart: 'We'd be delighted'
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    1 month ago

    I have only listened to the podcast for a year but holy shit i die not expect how much stewert softballs his guests and never argues anymore when they are spewing bullshit. I started getting agitated for example when the old white house press secretary came in saying “everything is fine, no crisis here, it’s really Obama’s fault that trump and musk are dismantling the government, dems need better press” and he just nods along. It’s so strange because I feel like that wasn’t the case 15 years ago or whatever.

    The only one he pushed back on recently in my memory was Chris Christie.

    I do not have high hopes for this upcoming one. It is going to be like Jake Paul vs mike Tyson, nobody wins and it is just for show.

  • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nltopolitics @lemmy.world•A Friday Night Massacre at the Pentagon
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    1 month ago

    Not to discredit what he did because he was probably one of the biggest impact decisions taken ever, he is definitely a great man and he deserves every ounce of credit, but he did not defy orders. They received no orders whatsoever, and the captain just assumed a war had broken out. They were too deep to receive orders at all. He refused to give his permission which was “legally” (military law-wise?) needed to launch the nukes. From your own link (also he wasn’t a commander at the time):

    Unlike other Soviet submarines armed with the “special weapon”, where only the captain and the political officer were required to authorize a nuclear launch, three officers on board the B-59 were required to authorize the launch because Arkhipov was also the chief of staff of the brigade (not the commander as is often incorrectly reported, who was in fact Captain First Rank Vasili Naumovich Agafonov).[11][12] The three men were Captain Savitsky, Political Officer Ivan Semyonovich Maslennikov, and Executive Officer Arkhipov. An argument broke out among the three of them, with only Arkhipov against the launch.

    So it doesn’t really apply. It is more one of 3 commanding officers that had a big disagreement and one of them refused to let the others give the order.

  • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nltoPiracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Where to find some more obscure stuff?English
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    1 month ago

    You are really missing out

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    Lol yeah many of us know we are missing out but can’t join any decent private trackers because they are impossible to join. The one small one I was able to join has so few users that maintaining a good ratio is literally impossible because not enough people download anything but brand-new media. Luckily they give points for keeping things alive that can be traded for ratio.

    I think without the points I would have like a 0.05 ratio or something dumb while I am 24/7 seeding over 300 files. On public trackers I have 3.1TB down, 20.7TB up seeding ~600.