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Fears over extremism in US military as soldier revealed as neo-Nazi TikTok follower
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 14 Apr 2025
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It's more, "hey this is not being allowed to happen without repercussion"
I mean, the Army is on the record in the article as saying that the behavior would not be tolerated and that they are investigating. He'll probably get UCMJ'd. I think "without repercussion" is strong.
Should there be more protections to detect this stuff early? Maybe. But, like, that doesn't feel like as flashy a headline I guess.
And idk, should the Armed Forces have people actively monitoring all their personnel's private lives 24/7? Seems a little much to me.
I'm just having trouble figuring out what the takeaway is. What "repercussions" do you want to see here? He gets punished in some way? Cause odds are good he will, if they can figure out who it is (since the Guardian didn't share the name with the Army, per the article.) So what's the story?
The story is these measures to start having an effect with extremism becoming more visibly prevalent.
I mean, you say more visible, but it's not like these things haven't always happened. I personally knew a guy a few years back who was UCMJ'd for being a racist.
I suppose you're right that he didn't have an article written in the Guardian about him, so it's more visible in that sense. But it seems a little tautological to write an article saying things are more visible, if the "more visibility" in question is that you wrote an article about them.
Fair point. I guess we will see how things develop.