cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27899425
Just some North Korea shit, nothing to see here. Move along.
Don’t show up, even to protest. He’ll just say everyone showed up for him. Let him have his audience-less parade like a retarded North Korean despot.
We should throw our own parade someplace else. Maybe even call it the Obama parade.
how about a nearby protest with the goal of gathering more people than the parade itself? that would piss him off
This is the correct response.
ETA: and I strongly suspect this will happen somehow. So, his birthday is June 14th, so those who can should start making plans to be in DC around then (actual day of parade may be different, so don’t lock in specific dates until there’s more info).
Meanwhile, get ready for your local May 1st protests. (More locations will be certainly be added to that map as the day gets closer).
And until then, there are lots more opportunities to get out and protest.
How protesty!
Tangent!
Hey are you able to use their map on mobile without issue? It’s the worst I’ve used in years. It might treat one finger like two, or none at all. Too tired to email them right now but certainly whack on the latest iOS on a new phone.
Yeah, zooming and planning around works fine for me on android.
Maybe protest and block the parade. This parade feels like bait to start riots. They want riots.
Better to protest in peace and ignore the parade. Just drawing a larger crowd and some good media attention will troll him enough. Concentrate on signs showing ways the money could have been used for good.
Would a protest that involves protesters blocking the parade from moving result in an american tiananmen square?
why would i want to stop Trump of making a fool of himself towards the civilized world? when we can troll him on the issue he cares the more about, after grifting: crowd sizes
A protest with signs that point out how much trump hates the military would be good.
The “Real America” protest
An 8 mile nearby protest.
An 8 mile protest in the way.
We’ve got one shot, one opportunity
Eminem wakes from a dead sleep covered in sweat
“It’s about to go down!”
palms are sweaty
mum’s spaghetti
Let that man be a grandpa for like 5 mins…
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What if everyone lined the streets and silently faced the other direction?
That’d be OK if they all simultaneously gave him the brown eye.
What a man baby.
Just some North Korea shit, nothing to see here. Move along.
You have been banned from Lemmy․ml
Federation be like let a thousand flowers bloom
Doesn’t have to be this way though, wide defederation is the answer for toxic propaganda spreading instances
Sometimes, you just need to kick out the weeds
Ha ha ha Sargent bone spurs reporting for duty.
*cadet bone spurs
To be Sergeant you have to have actually accomplished something.
So a perfect time for a military coup? 🤞
In case you haven’t figured it out yet, the military is fine with trump.
Please, I have only so little hope left
As much as we would love to believe the officer’s oath (and the enlisted oath, diluted as it is by the president clause) carries water and protects us, the historical precedent of militaries says troops are loyal to their paychecks and, to a somewhat lesser extent, benefits. As long as the soldiers continue to be financially compensated, they won’t rebel and will actively work against rebellions. When they stop being compensated, they’ll become passive and will step aside for a rebellion. Some may even defect and join the rebellion, but only if they think its success will benefit them. Sorry to be cynical, but without a strong charismatic and revered general or admiral to follow, troops will never self-activate to “defend their oath.”
Look up the fall of Samuel Doe in Liberia or the Vodka rebellion leading up to Kerensky’s coup in Russia. The military is ever just hired goons. If the military were truly a circuit breaker against illegal autocracy, then they’d be doing exercises and drills to train for the day they’d have to “defend the constitution” from a domestic threat. To my knowledge, no such “uncoup the coup” drill has ever been conducted.
To my knowledge, no such “uncoup the coup” drill has ever been conducted.
Why would it be expected that you would have knowledge of such a thing?
I’d wager my odds of knowing are better than that of the average person, but it’s true, lack of knowledge does not represent lack of existence. It would be nice if some special units somewhere train exactly for that scenario.
Didn’t they all just see their retirements get obliterated before even becoming vets?
How so? As far as I know, the 20-year pension plan is still in place. And yeah, the TSP equity funds were affected, but you’d be surprised how ignorant and apathetic a huge portion of military members are about the TSP and completely unaware of vehicles like the Roth IRA. Plus, that’s all future money, in some case far future. Much less personal impact, as it’s easier to think only about the present. That’s why many aren’t getting all worked up about loss of earned benefits that will only matter years from now once they’ve been discharged. Plus, many Jr enlisted don’t have enough discretionary income to even contribute to a TSP on a meaningful level.
Yeah, he just gutted the VA along with everything else.
I don’t think that’s an accurate statement. Maybe most of the enlisted people are, but a very large percentage of the officers hate him. He is their commanding officer, and they openly insult him. They ridicule him constantly and talk about how terrible his decisions are. They joke about how stupid the SecDef’s plans are. And they do all this in front of their superior officers.
The officers make an oath about defending the constitution, but they also hold very strongly to their duty to protect the people they command. Trump puts those people in jeopardy for no damn reason, so many hate him for that.
Literally the worst case scenario, idk why people want that.
They hope someone will else do it for them.
Oh, yeah? Me and what army?
The one out last weekend, and in the weeks to come, protesting. The people the government derives it’s power from the consent of. If all else fails, all other means are exhausted, and the time comes, you hope the military is on your side but you do NOT hope the military takes initiative to resolve the problem because my guy the interests of the military are not the interests of the citizenry and I would prefer not to live under a military dictatorship thank you very much.
The people the government derives it’s power from the consent of
Do a headcount of which citizens are on which side. Rationality and empathy exist in bubbles, not a sea. Most of the population is really just that plain dumb and/or sadistic and apparently has grown in numbers and magnitude since last time. The side you’re rooting for also will almost always pull their punches whereas the other side simply doesn’t. Give me a deus ex machina fairy tale dream to cling onto because those in power with the big guns and tanks and bombs lust for hurting people and they’ve got the majority of the masses tricked into happily getting themselves and others trampled upon.
If you’ve already given up idk what to tell you. A military dictatorship is not what you want.
Where archive
Your tax dollars at work
Picture of efficiency
Where’s DOGE?
Cutting programs to find funds for this parade
Slashing social security to fund this and golfing.
Anywhere but here. Wouldn’t want to jeopardize the many billions in contracts that the muskrat’s companies have with the department of defense.
Cutting VA benefits.
“You want your money? Then get out there and march!”
Vets: ok
It’s like poetry, it rhymes.
Wild.
Expected. This ain’t the first time he’s tried this.
That doesn’t make it not wild though, imho.
did he also order spectators to cry of happiness?
Will there be straight leg marching?
It’s called a goose-step and I can’t imagine it’s not too long until he orders the military to do it in his honor
Hashtag just dictator things
I have some questions. Will the soldiers all be white cis males? Will they be wearing orange makeup and smell like dirty diapers?
Let’s be sure the best parade balloon ever created is part of it.
Omg please bring this back 🤣 it was such an incredible troll move, and it very obviously got under his skin
I saw a couple people carrying smaller versions of it at the Handsoff event. 😂
You can buy balloon versions online if you’re looking for one.
Just more dictator shit
