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Jacson6

(2,014 posts)
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 03:33 AM Jun 2025

America is fracturing right before our eyes.

I wonder how many Hispanic CA national guard members will not show up? All they will lose is once a month drill pay and any college payment stipend they receive.

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America is fracturing right before our eyes. (Original Post) Jacson6 Jun 2025 OP
Honestly, I hope I'm wrong, but I don't expect any young men to side with the US constitution on this Walleye Jun 2025 #1
Yes young men have gone to the dark side. Irish_Dem Jun 2025 #2
I think this is a real problem. Possibly the main one. Walleye Jun 2025 #3
It is one of the main problems yes. Irish_Dem Jun 2025 #4
Especially the media we always counted on. They prefer fascism apparently Walleye Jun 2025 #5
The media works for the PutinGOP. Irish_Dem Jun 2025 #6
This is what happens when your country keeps electing.. ananda Jun 2025 #7
A,very dear friend of mine JustAnotherGen Jun 2025 #8
Uh..no TnDem Jun 2025 #9
It might be the only way JustAnotherGen Jun 2025 #11
A .308 would be ideal for sniper work but not close quarter fighting Kaleva Jun 2025 #13
I would not recommend not showing up. Nonnia Bisnez Jun 2025 #10
IS BEING FRACTURED malaise Jun 2025 #12

Walleye

(44,807 posts)
1. Honestly, I hope I'm wrong, but I don't expect any young men to side with the US constitution on this
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 05:30 AM
Jun 2025

Seems they have almost all fallen in love with Trump/Elon/Putin. And they are eliminating women from the military

Irish_Dem

(81,277 posts)
2. Yes young men have gone to the dark side.
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 06:09 AM
Jun 2025

Males have been falling behind in terms of a college education, job skills.
job promotions, salary, etc.

Women are doing all of that, plus taking care of the house and kids.

Women don't need men any more. And instead of figuring it out
and growing up, men blame women and want to take them back to the dark ages.

Irish_Dem

(81,277 posts)
4. It is one of the main problems yes.
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 06:14 AM
Jun 2025

But it is way more than that.

The US congress, court system, media refuse to do their jobs and have
aligned with the dictatorship.

Irish_Dem

(81,277 posts)
6. The media works for the PutinGOP.
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 06:20 AM
Jun 2025

Yes they have aligned with the global fascists and billionaires.

ananda

(35,152 posts)
7. This is what happens when your country keeps electing..
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 07:34 AM
Jun 2025

the lowest common denominator.

When Bush 2 was selected, I was appalled at how
poor a candidate he was... not very smart, a coke
user, and a person with daddy issues latching onto
Dick Cheney to tell him what to dol.

My mother used to call him King George since he
wasn't really elected.

Our electoral system got compromised too, once
Tom Delay set the Brooks brothers on the Dade
county election office.

With Bush 1 I could see the Republican party veerng
to the right. Bush wasn't originally that rightwing, but
he had to move with the party... and that was because
of racism. The Dixiecrats were going Republican now,
and they wanted Civil Rights gone and plutocrats to rule.

It took awhile, but the lowest kept getting lower in the red
states. The were mean and autocratic. Voting rights were
curbed and it became easier to game elections in the former
confederate states.

Then the trend towards racism and autocracy spread to the
rustbelt states, the media moved to the right, and now here
we are being governed by people so low we don't really know
what the bottom is any .more.

JustAnotherGen

(38,054 posts)
8. A,very dear friend of mine
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 07:48 AM
Jun 2025

Has a son who is an Army Ranger. He has voted for Trump three times.

We need to start looking to the Bloods and Crips to save us. I'm deadly serious - because they are deadly.

 

TnDem

(1,390 posts)
9. Uh..no
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 07:56 AM
Jun 2025

Bloods and Crips are not as deadly as an average US Army soldier that graduated from Ranger school with their tab.

Average inner city gang members would shoot 150 rounds from their "gat" missing everything but their 8 year old neighbor while the Ranger would shoot 50 rounds and effectively hit 35 times.

JustAnotherGen

(38,054 posts)
11. It might be the only way
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 08:06 AM
Jun 2025

For Black Americans who do not already own firearms to obtain one.

There is a Black Gun club meeting on private rural land today in my county and I'll be teaching these women how to shoot .308 Winchesters.

The advice I've given on that purchase came from my dad (first class of Green Berets) when he used to take us up to Watertown and the Adirondacks for survival training. He had a DEEP hatred for all things Russian and was convinced they would one day invade. He was right.

A .308 is ideal for hunting deer which means it can also be used against white folks who try to pull a Tulsa in NJ.

Stop thinking its JUST the military - we have a history of white Americans being given a Green Light to murder, rape and pillage. You are our secret weapon. My husband is too.

Kaleva

(40,365 posts)
13. A .308 would be ideal for sniper work but not close quarter fighting
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 09:18 AM
Jun 2025

For most people, carrying around a gun that’s capable of firing a high powered round such as the .308 24/7 isn’t practical.

 

Nonnia Bisnez

(90 posts)
10. I would not recommend not showing up.
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 08:05 AM
Jun 2025

They'll get in huge trouble. They need to show up and tell their leader they won't point their weopen at unarmed civilians because it would be illegal for them to do so.

malaise

(296,118 posts)
12. IS BEING FRACTURED
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 08:27 AM
Jun 2025

By the Executive Branch and militia kiyal to it.
That is all.

Oh stock upon basics.

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