I don’t even understand why they bothered with killing two guardsmen.

They would have implemented more fascist measures anyway.

When I started learning the capabilities of the F-35 in ~2013, it was obvious to me that the next generation of air power will be entirely autonomous, at least entirely remote. (Most people thought I was thinking too far into the future, “there’s no way they can control something moving that fast on the other side of the world.”) The limiting factor in planes is the human. Take the human out, and it’s a lot more capable.

I think that in the not so near future, world wide air travel will be highly restricted due to systems built to respond to automated/remote threats.

Nobody said the foreign actors weren’t foreign raccoons in a coat

Hey, would you look at that.

The FBI’s first and foremost job is national security interests, particularly on identifing foreign actors in the state. The feds got played lmfao

That’s what I’ve been saying!

And I’m all out of bubblegum too.

That’s his plan. That’s always been his plan. What kind of rock have you stuffed yourself under if you believe it isn’t his plan.

The movie They Live has alien things that have technology to appear human and they are slowly changing the planet to suit their needs.

They look horrifying too. Just as horrifying on the inside as the people in this regime.

Ahhhh you’re right. I was thinking of Pete Hegeseth.

So Miller is just being a whiny baby.

If chain of command is always followed, then the orders will be neutered before they can be carried out.

While any superior officer can circumvent subordinates, as far as I understand it, this would be highly unusual, insulting, and self-disparaging. Technically Miller himself could give the orders to specific troops to carry out, but as soon as his orders are issued, the troops commanding officer can belay those and issue their own.

There is a reason tyrants don’t like chain of command.

Edit: Stephen Miller is just Policy Chief of Staff. Basically a talking head at this point. No actual ability to give orders

Plus if the order that has made its way down to enlisted in such a way that the enlisted has to determine if it’s illegal or not, then theres a bigger problem.

If officers can give the order to hold any return fire, then they can also give the order to do something that is not illegal.

Chain of command is a powerful structure

“Rebellion!” Screams the chronic angry man who is giving illegal orders that would be treason, regardless of who is giving the order.

Let my pension and 401k burn. I still have to work another 31 years anyway.

Social Security for all, Medicare for all. That’s the solution.

We need to end the current system that soley revolves around stealing from the citizens to pay the rich.

They fucked up. They don’t get to keep fucking up.

And if they do, we bring the system down permanently. There are more of us than there are of them.

That’s also why it’s a spectrum. Some of us have compensation for that automatic intuition.

Grace had a different prediction of her action in the first one compared to the second one.

Though admittedly my first gut instinct is “grace killed her, intentional or not.” But because of that “mystery or” my mind says “my understanding is incomplete, seek more information.”

Ok. So. Is there something wrong with me that ever since I learned about the Palestinian genocide in the late 2000’s my mind went immediately to “uh, what the fuck, why are we supporting this?”

I’ve always thought "well of course Palestinians are going to support Hamas. Hamas is actually doing something.

Is it empathy? Or is it autism that makes me more resistant to propaganda? Or is it simply that I have an above average means to change my mind in light of new information and most humans lack it?

Hey, you know what though, good on him for recognizing it was a big mistake and ceasing all contact with him since July 23, 2019. (/s in case people don’t know that’s the day Epstein was murdered)

A forged indictment would be weird.

Ahhhhh. Ok. That’s the secret sauce I was missing.

Hahaha! I love it.

Wait

She lawyered so badly we don’t even have case law on it?

This scares me a lot. If she doesn’t get disbarred, and this somehow gets appealed, and it moves to the supreme court, then this right here could hand trump all of the remaining power the executive could want.

This is horrible