KillAllHippies [none/use name]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 11 hours agoDonald Trump to kick transgender troops out of US militarywww.thetimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square84fedilinkarrow-up194arrow-down10
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minus-squaregrendahlgrendahlgen [he/him, any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up36·7 hours agoThe Bonus Army did, and the feds gassed them in the middle of DC.
minus-squareZ_Poster365 [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·edit-24 hours agoBonus Army was filled with ex-conscripts. Modern veterans were all volunteers, so they are bootlickers or selfish opportunists at heart without any type of solidarity. They lack the ingredients for an uprising
minus-squareAnarchoAnarchist [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 hour agoPeople can be radicalized within the service, like Aaron Bushnell. But absent conscription I don’t think the armed forces are fertile grounds, which is an absolute shame.
minus-squaretripartitegraph [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·7 hours agoLol beat me to it
The Bonus Army did, and the feds gassed them in the middle of DC.
Bonus Army was filled with ex-conscripts. Modern veterans were all volunteers, so they are bootlickers or selfish opportunists at heart without any type of solidarity. They lack the ingredients for an uprising
People can be radicalized within the service, like Aaron Bushnell.
But absent conscription I don’t think the armed forces are fertile grounds, which is an absolute shame.
Lol beat me to it