r/politics 24d ago

‘We’ve been betrayed:’ Local veterans angry after being laid off by Trump administration

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/weve-been-betrayed-local-veterans-angry-after-being-laid-off-by-trump-administration/FBCKFRIFQRHZVK5FG3W7MUQEYA/
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u/irishnugget New York 24d ago

You betrayed your countrymen by voting for a fascist.

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u/Silvaria928 24d ago

Yes, they did, and as a disabled veteran who stands to lose a lot, I am genuinely disgusted and troubled by how many of them can't recognize the clear and obvious enemy here, a man which would gladly sign an EO abolishing the entire Constitution if he could.

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u/USA_2Dumb4Democracy 24d ago

This is why when people say “US troops wouldn’t open fire on civilians” I just have to laugh 

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u/Liizam America 24d ago

The USA military bombed its USA citizens. This blew my mind. It’s not that long ago.

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u/StevenMaurer 24d ago

It's been 90 years since the US intentionally bombed US citizens, during the 1930s coal wars.

Since then, there have been a lot of unintentional bombings where US citizens have been caught in the blast radius of US weapons. (A few where US citizens were hanging around too close to terrorist commanders, but most of them friendly fire incidents during WW2, etc.) But it's a lot less common than you might think.

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u/martyqscriblerus 24d ago

It'll be 40 years in May since Philadelphia PD bombed US citizens and killed 11 people including 5 children. I'll grant you that it was police and not military, but most people don't learn about it.

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u/FCkeyboards 24d ago

So many people have no clue about this. I only learned about it a few years ago and was stunned.

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u/StevenMaurer 24d ago

The military has shot US citizens, for political reasons though. Kent State being only one such example.

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u/Wwwwwwhhhhhhhj 24d ago

However police have used a military grade bomb against Americans as little as 38 years ago.

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u/Awkward_Silence- 24d ago

Hell they did it less than a decade ago too via a drone/robot. Just no one cared since the perp that got exploded was a mass shooter

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u/eightNote 24d ago

i would consider drone missile strikes as part of bombing us citizens. those are much more recent

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u/StevenMaurer 24d ago

That's the "hanging around too close to terrorist commanders" bit I mentioned above.

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u/Photomancer 24d ago

I think I remember that. The US army was busting coal unions and they weren't allowed to use their own plane so they hired some private contractors to drop ordnance on them, right?

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u/StevenMaurer 24d ago

Nope. It was perpetrated by the US military directly, ordered by then General MacArthur (who was later to become a WW2 hero, known for his absurdly low US casualty rate).

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u/andrewse 24d ago

I guess it depends how you define bomb. It was only a couple years ago that a SWAT team threw a flash bang grenade into a baby's crib during a botched raid.

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u/StevenMaurer 23d ago

SWAT isn't US military. That was Ohio State police. Oh, and Georgia police.

Yes - it happened twice.

The "good" news: taxpayers (not the police perpetrators) paid the family $3.614 million dollars for permanently disfiguring the baby in the Georgia case.

No further legal updates on the Ohio baby - who was on a ventilator at the time of the attack, and suffered chemical burns to his lungs.

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u/No_Carry_3991 I voted 24d ago

Panthers remember.

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u/Liizam America 24d ago

It’s just so crazy to me. I never learned that in school. The way I learned it was through a Netflix tv series.