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Twin celebrations of the Army's 250th anniversary and the president's birthday will include as many as 25 tanks rolling through Washington.

Twin celebrations of Donald Trump’s birthday and the Army’s 250th anniversary will include as many as 25 tanks rolling through Washington in a celebration that will cost $25 million to $45 million, U.S. officials told Reuters on Wednesday.

U.S. military service branches take pride in their history and anniversary celebrations, called birthdays, across the United States and on bases around the world.

The U.S. Army had long been planning to move troops and equipment to the National Mall in Washington on June 14 as part of its anniversary celebration. Plans now include a parade since that coincides with Trump’s 79th birthday.

Two U.S. officials told Reuters, on condition of anonymity, the eventual cost could be as high as $45 million. One of them said the cost included several million dollars more than it would have without a parade.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

When he kicks the bucket they will just replace him with someone from the creators of project 2025.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I'm betting that they continue to play puppet-master with Donald Trump Jr.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

America is a failed state, your poor die because they can't afford hospitals, your rich steal everything they want, and use your armed forces as their toys.

You are a disgrace, shame on all of you for not introducing this man and his friends to Madame Guillotine.

The world see you as weak and it will take a generation to repair the dammage you have done to your reputation.

Fught for fucks sake are you just waiting for him to die so u can get a new dictator?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I support the criticisms, but history will just see this as the thousandth time this has happened across the globe, and not nearly the only place it's happening right now.

Generally speaking revolutions like you speak of are not a feature of the modern world. They only happen when a stronger and more wealthy outside force helps drive them. That's notably not something that can happen in the strongest and most wealthy country in the world.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

In America they dont your docile the rest of us over throw our fascists

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh, sure. That's why there are no other fascists in power anywhere in the whole world.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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 1911 Revolution (3 C, 26 P)

 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine (1 C, 25 P)

A

 Algerian War (12 C, 18 P, 1 F)

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 Bolivarian Revolution (8 C, 25 P)

C

 Carnation Revolution (1 C, 17 P)

 Chinese Civil War (8 C, 55 P)

 Cuban Revolution (5 C, 20 P)

 Cultural Revolution (8 C, 87 P)

D

 Digital Revolution (5 C, 7 P)

 Dominican Civil War (1965) (1 C, 3 P)

E

 Egyptian revolution of 1919 (6 P)

 Egyptian revolution of 1952 (1 C, 10 P)

 Ethiopian Revolution (5 P)

G

 German Revolution of 1918–1919 (4 C, 37 P)

 Guatemalan Revolution (40 P)

H

 Hungarian Revolution of 1956 (2 C, 34 P)

 Hungarian–Romanian War (1 C, 7 P)

I

 Indonesian National Revolution (9 C, 109 P)

 Iranian Revolution (5 C, 48 P)

 1991 Iraqi uprisings (2 C, 13 P)

M

 Makhnovshchina (2 C, 24 P)

 Mexican Revolution (5 C, 42 P)

N

 Nicaraguan Revolution (3 C, 44 P)

P

 People Power Revolution (1 C, 12 P)

 Persian Constitutional Revolution (1 C, 37 P)

R

 Revolutionary Government of the Armed Forces of Peru (1 C, 27 P)

 Revolutions of 1917–1923 (13 C, 56 P)

 Revolutions of 1989 (11 C, 27 P)

 Russian Revolution (11 C, 44 P)

 Russian Revolution of 1905 (4 C, 43 P)

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 Second Industrial Revolution (5 C, 5 P)

 Sexual revolution (5 C, 38 P)

 Siamese revolution of 1932 (1 C, 3 P)

 Revolutions in the Soviet Union (4 C, 4 P)

 Spanish Revolution of 1936 (1 C, 21 P)

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5 October 1910 revolution

1911 Revolution

28 May 1926 coup d'état

1932 Trujillo uprising

1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine

14 July Revolution

1962 Burmese coup d'état

1965 Algerian coup d'état

1969 Libyan revolution

1973 Afghan coup d'état

1987 Tunisian coup d'état

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Abdallah Mazandarani

Aden Emergency

Algerian War

Anarchist insurrection of January 1933

Anarchist insurrection of December 1933

Andorran Revolution

April Revolution

Argentine Revolution

Argentine Revolution of 1905

Aster Revolution

August Revolution

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1990s uprising in Bahrain

Battle of Ciucea

Battle of Guisa

Battle of Ismailia (1952)

Battle of Zalău

Bibliography of the Russian Revolution and Civil War

Bolivian National Revolution

Brazilian Revolution of 1930

Brunei revolt

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Carnation Revolution

Casualties of the Iranian Revolution

1940–1944 insurgency in Chechnya

Chechen Revolution

Chiapas conflict

Chinese Communist Revolution

Communist revolution

Constitutionalist Revolution

Cuban Revolution

Cultural Revolution

Cultural Revolution in Libya

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Dominican Civil War

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1919 Egyptian revolution

1952 Egyptian revolution

Ethiopian Revolution

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Jacques Sauvageot

May 68

Strike of ORTF technicians and journalists in May-June 1968

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German revolution of 1918–1919

Republic of Gniew

Guatemalan Revolution

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Hawaii Democratic Revolution of 1954

Hungarian Revolution of 1956

Hungarian–Romanian War

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Indonesian National Revolution

Iranian Revolution

Irish revolutionary period

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June 3 Resistance movement

June 4th revolution in Ghana

June Democratic Struggle

June Revolution

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Muhammad Kazim Khurasani

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1946 La Paz riots

List of high-ranking commanders of the Indonesian National Revolution

Log Revolution

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Makhnovshchina

Augusto Martínez Sánchez

Mau Mau rebellion

Mexican Revolution

Mirza Husayn Tehrani

Monégasque Revolution

Mongolian Revolution of 1990

Mongolian Revolution of 1911

Mongolian Revolution of 1921

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National Revolution and Solidarity Day

Nicaraguan Revolution

Persian Constitutional Revolution

November 1918 insurgency in Alsace–Lorraine

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Overthrow of Slobodan Milošević

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Peaceful Revolution

Peasant revolution in Ethiopia

People Power Revolution

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Ramadan Revolution

Regional Defence Council of Aragon

Republic of Tarnobrzeg

Revolution of the King and the People

Revolutionary Catalonia

Revolutions and interventions in Hungary (1918–1920)

Revolutions of 1917–1923

1958 Rif riots

Romanian revolution

Ruhr uprising

Russian Revolution

Russian Revolution of 1905

Rwandan Revolution

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São Paulo Revolt of 1924

Saur Revolution

Second Revolution (Republic of China)

Shia Islamism

Siamese revolution of 1932

Singing Revolution

Spanish Revolution of 1936

Strandzha Commune

Stuha

Fall of Suharto

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Mirza Sayyed Mohammad Tabatabai

Tajikistani Revolution

Tambov Rebellion

Țigani clash

Trois Glorieuses (1963)

Turkish National Movement

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Vue Pa Chay's revolt

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Young Turk Revolution

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Zanzibar Revolution

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So? How many of these happened without the outside instigation and assistance I mentioned? Copying and pasting a list of every revolution is kinda missing the point. Also, how many of these ended up with as bad or worse dictatorships?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Lots did and mostly in the 20th century because of America fucking about with goverments to stop socialism so might be karma

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh, it's definitely karma. It's just ignorant to expect Americans to overthrow the government and not end up with something even worse than we have today. That's just not how the modern world works.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

What you have today is being demolished as we speak by the day if you don't do something soon honestly I can't see thar cunt handing over power to anyone but his mates your done as a democracy he might even have hacked the vote not that you could ever prove it and elons wiped out all the people who would investigate it's Guillotine time

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

Just give Trump the option of taking the cash in lieu of the parade and BOOM no more parade.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

Some new Luigi needs to pull off a Tiananmen Square: Washington Drift

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 weeks ago

GUYS I FOUND THE WASTEFUL GOVERNMENT SPENDING

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

So another republican did a milatary parade, interesting.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago

This is why we can't have 30 dolls

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

The little girl only needs 3 pencils. The little boy needs multi-million dollar attention.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You know….

There are roughly 7 million people on SSDI. A good chunk of those who of us on SSDI are at poverty level or less.

There are roughly 18 million veterans. Many of them have been at poverty level or less.

You could give 25 million people who are either veterans or disabled a million dollars tax-free and no strings attached and you would improve their quality of life drastically.

But, no, the Orange King needs his ego soothed and inflated by having a fucking parade on his birthday. Absolutely disgusting and I really hope there will be a major protest at the same time. I might use the meager finances I have and take a trip to D.C. for that.

The irony? Some of those men and women from the military in that parade will be left to rot once their service is over.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You could give 25 million people who are either veterans or disabled a million dollars...

Not to rain on your parade (I think the idea of a military parade is patiently wasteful and dumb, meanwhile we don't do enough as a nation to care for veterans and disabled people), but that would be a lot more than $45 million. More like $25 trillion... or 25,000x $1 billion... or 25,000,000x $1 million.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Good grief I can’t do math apparently. Thank you for correcting me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

You might enjoy this video talking about exactly this error and why it happens so often. Interesting stuff!

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

And this will fix the economy and end the war in Ukraine and Gaza how?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

In reality we all know it wont do shit.

In Trump's mind it will show the world what a glorious and powerful leader he is, and everyone will just do what he demands.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

We'll see the plan isn't to end any wars, it's to profit off of them. And when they said they were going to fix the economy, they meant they were going to make money off the U.S. populous. Americans as a whole have lost money since they came in, but they have made a lot of money themselves.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Historically speaking, USSR / Russia, China, and NK have loved to talk up the capabilities of their kit, and these parades were a big part of that. They have frequently failed to deliver on all of their promised capabilities.

In the United States we have done the opposite. We don't talk about our latest gen aircraft programs; we hide them out in the desert. When we do talk we remain cagey about what we have for years and decades, until long after we've started selling it to allies.

I understand that this parade will not show off our real capabilities (not at 25 tanks anyway), but I am saddened that the man feels like he needs to stoop to the level of the adversaries we've held for so long.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

He's mad that Putin and el-Sisi both got cool military parades. I remember him wanting to do this in his first term.

[–] [email protected] 114 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I don't know how common this sentiment is but I see a major military parade on US soil as an embarrassment. No uninvited foreign troops have set foot in the contiguous US since the Mexican American War ended in 1848. There hasn't been a military battle in the contiguous US since Wounded Knee in 1890, inasmuch as Wounded Knee was a battle. Part of the privileges that Americans enjoy is that that level of conflict happens elsewhere. Large displays of military power at home deminish us.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Not to mention he's a draft dodger as well. He doesn't deserve a military parade based on that alone.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

The battle of Blair Mountain is the closest modern battle in the contiguous U.S.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I have few teachers I can remember lessons from my high school days, 20+ years ago. The US was fresh post 9/11, patriot act era.

AP History teacher, a Vietnam vet, took his time to explain why only "tinpot dictators" need military parades to show power and US armed forces Generals would never go for it.

While teaching checks-and-balances, he firmly believed enough good men and women would remain in positions of power to never let a dictator override the constitution.

Another time, he pointed out that the presidential election is never actually called until the candidate concedes (when asked about gore v w) and that fore conceded because that is what is done. When we pressed him on it, he said "You are teenage boys, and you think like teenage boys. Adults know what's right, even if it means you lose."

All that is to say, I consistently see reminders that this current administration has the same mental thought process as a group of teenage boys, spoiled teenagers who started at third and think they hit a home run.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

To be fair, did Trump ever actually concede after 2020? Dude still says he won.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

All military parades are ridiculously embarrassing.

I remember when they used to air the annual Scottish tattoo on tv.

I mean, it's probably fun for anyone who participates or has a hard on for bagpipes, but for the rest of the world, it's a ridiculous event where an audience shows up to watch men in uniform walk in beat and show their rifles in sync. It's like square dancing, but only for men, and longer guns.

Good thing that I can switch channels, so I can watch syncronized swimming from the Olympics instead. I like their uniforms better.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

When the Tao is present in the universe,
The horses haul manure.
When the Tao is absent from the universe,
War horses are bred outside the city.

Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu - chapter 46

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

as many as 25 tanks rolling through Washington

I hope they shred Pennsylvania Ave. to smithereens... 🤡 🖕

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

I don't think they will do much if they go in a straight line. If they start doing donuts then it would probably wreck some shit.

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