Comment by DrillShopper
1 year ago
The president can arguably pack the court and with his majorities nobody will stop him
If you believe the Supreme Court is an effective guardrail against tyranny then you're deeply mistaken. The only true safeguard against tyranny is the American people refusing to comply and responding with force of arms if pushed.
I don't care if you're a 3%er or a John Brown Gun Club fan, this is an absurd fantasy.
ISTR that this is one of the exact excuses people wheel out when "the gun discussion" comes up: to protect the people from tyranny.
We'll see how that goes.
https://theshovel.com.au/2020/06/04/nra-accidentally-forgets...
Assuming the US military remains loyal to the president... if you really think that the Proud Boys and their ilk, plus a bunch of random disorganized people with guns, have even the remotest chance of winning a war with the US military, well... I have a bridge I'd like to sell you.
And if the US military doesn't remain loyal to the president, then on top of a fascist dictator seizing power, then we'll have a military coup.
> And if the US military doesn't remain loyal to the president, then on top of a fascist dictator seizing power, then we'll have a military coup.
“Instead”, not “on top”. (I mean, unless the military installs a different fascist dictator, which is certainly not unheard of in military coups that are notionally countercoups.)
> if you really think that the Proud Boys and their ilk, plus a bunch of random disorganized people with guns, have even the remotest chance of winning a war with the US military, well... I have a bridge I'd like to sell you.
Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam
In Afghanistan, Iraq, and Vietnam, the enemy was—and, critically, the US forces were not—fighting for their homeland, and the US engaged in political decisions to limit operations because of that (and, in the case of Afghanistan, got distracted and fucked off to start an war of aggression in Iraq in the middle of it).
And still won in Iraq, first against Saddam’s regime, then the post-regime pre-ISIS insurgency, and then the later fight against ISIS, so I’m not sure why Iraq is included, absolute immorality of the decision to go to war there and its cost to the war in Afghanistan aside, since those are irrelevant to the discussion here.