With Trump antagonizing a majority of the troops by siding with fascists, the neo-nazis and the leftists both have their bases covered now.
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Until they can centralize and automate autonomous UAV/UCV deployment, they need soldiers to suppress revolt.
Soldiers might not play ball.
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I thought that if it came to it cops would side with the fash but SF seems to show Team Fascist screwing that up
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Yeah, but they lack the training to use their fancy military toys in a full-blown insurrection.
We may be heading towards just that.
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Increasingly plausible.
Hard to guess which way the IS military will swing if it comes to that.
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Seems safe-ish to bet on discipline if the federal administration is organized.
If it's a transitional government... good luck with that.
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Obama was liked because he just let them do the war stuff. Bush Senior was liked because he was good at the war stuff. They don’t much care?
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That's, uh, bleak.
If Republicans can deploy the army domestically, we're already way past the point of no return.
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You don't think the Nazi stuff will play any part in changing things? Too far into the past?
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The fascist impulse in US culture — well represented among soldiers and cops — is rarely recognized as "fascist"
miniver.blogspot.com/2014/10/it-is-
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Fair point. The US is the perfect vindication of victi vincimus.


