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If Trump wins the election, US cities are at risk of military takeovers and mass deportations
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 17 Oct 2024
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You do not execute orders that aren't moral. The US Military is not like the Russians. Although, I wouldn't depend completely on that.
Stanfrod prison experiment proved pretty amply that people will follow orders and adopt other peoples sadism as their own when directed to do so by an authority figure. Nurembourg was largely a propoganda show.
Tell the 200 or so military that were found guilty there.
It was originally supposed to have tried more like 15000, but yes, ultimately a low couple hundred were tried, and then the rest were just dropped. Theres interesting history there, and it functioned more like propoganda than justice.
I don't believe anyone is perfectly immune from propaganda but I don't even know if you need propaganda to get people to follow orders. All you need is someone to give the order. There isn't any Morality In following orders. That's why they're called soldiers
Not just propaganda, but threats against them or their job. I'd be willing to bet that they wouldn't threaten their families, I couldn't imagine that turning out well.
I was only following orders doesn't work in some courts