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I’m simultaneously baffled and infuriated by all of the people who are “resigning in protest”.
Like, holy fuck, why are you making it easy for them? Dig your heels in. Nickel-and-dime the bureaucracy. Lean into the minutiae. Get the noncoms to maliciously comply on as many points as possible. Intentionally be inefficient. Throw sand in the gears, and sugar in the gas tank. Drop a bolt somewhere, and “forget” to spot it on FOD walkdown. Over torque. Under torque. Cross thread with ugga dugga. Misalign. There are a SHITLOAD of places where intentional inefficiency can be employed in a defensible fashion. Misinterpret orders. Don’t correct typos and errors, and just do whatever as-written, with minimum effort lip-service. Make it hard for them to take over. Genuinely, why are these approaches not being used more aggressively? I’m completely fucking flummoxed.
Honestly, dishonorable discharge technically allows for a death sentence. If Trump orders a general to shoot American civilians and he refuses, that's treason, so can be death sentence'd. I'd want to avoid the situation too.
Now if that ACTUALLY happened, at least which ever general with balls gets unalived is going to be a martyr and hopefully a symbol for the resistance. So it takes one guy to take that bullet and the country may never be the same. So I hope someone will do that instead of quitting.
The general would face a court martial or whatever that process is that could lead to a death sentence, and if that process results in a death sentence for refusing to shoot American citizens then absolutely nothing matters.
Nope and nope.