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Comment by burnt-resistor

6 months ago

* In times of war. This ain't it.

If you'd bothered to actually read the link I cited, you'd have seen that direct commissions occur during and outside of wartime.

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    • I'll take that as your tacit acknowledgement of not having known of the existence of direct commissions before your outrage got ginned up to the appropriate level. I bet you also think that a president using both the National Guard and active-duty soldiers to quell unrest is, like, totally unprecedented and omg 100% Nazi.

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The U.S. ruling class is at war with the citizenry and Silicon Valley is its vanguard.

  • How exactly is the ruling class at war with the citizenry? If you're alluding to the LA deployments that seems to not be the citizenry since it's illegal immigrants.

    • It's right up there with the repeated mantra that Latino Trump voters who are now seeing themselves being deported en masse are regretting their vote. Such prattlers might study what they've said for hours without noticing the fallacy.