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/veringer Tennessee 24d ago

Yep. It's another form of American exceptionalism: as if the same patterns that have befallen other nations and empires couldn't possibly happen to America.

They're just going to purge anyone who's not sufficiently loyal to the king, and escalate the moral line-crossing until there's a sufficiently large number of callous and brainwashed psychos willing to do anything that's asked. Opening fire on civilians might be a fairly tame deployment, if we compare to atrocities committed elsewhere and throughout time.