• azimir@lemmy.ml
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    So the Air Force is actively promotion insurrection and violent coups against the US. So noted.

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    If they bury her in Arlington or give her any kind memorial plaque or stone that cannot stand. A lot of things I’m willing to let go of as a permanent scar on our history, but we don’t bury Nazis next to people that fought the Nazis.

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    Babbitt, an Air Force veteran, was shot and killed by law enforcement during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot as she attempted to climb through a barricaded door to the Speaker’s lobby near the House chamber.

    In May, the government agreed to pay Babbitt’s family nearly $5 million as part of a settlement.

    The lawsuit alleged that the officer, who was not in uniform, failed to deescalate the situation and did not give her any warnings or commands before opening fire.

    Remember this when the conservatives scream about “rioters” and the “thin blue line”. Fucking traitors and hypocrites.

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      She was literally climbing through broken window of a door leading to the safe room members of the House of Representatives were sheltering in. The HEAD of the country was being pursued by a mob that had erected a scaffold and noose in front of the building.

      Somehow it was the officer’s job to deescalate the situation outnumbered 100:1 with a yelling riotous mob bashing in the doors? Yup, it’s all about the officer there.

      Conservatives, in the end, only care about owning others and power over others. Always realize they don’t like or care about your well being. They only play nice with society and a republic when forced to.

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      Wait, i thought only antifa stormed the building as a false flag? Was babbitt antifa? Or profa?

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    I’m not surprised by this.

    The US is in a civil war. I know it may not seem like it, because there aren’t necessarily organized armies and battle lines, but not all wars are fought that way, especially not in this day and age. But while the nature of war may have changed, some things have stayed the same.

    In the first US civil war, Lee wanted to capture Washington DC, because if you control the US Federal government you control the United States of America. That’s still true. Well, guess who has control of the US Federal government. The liberals and the leftists are losing a war they didn’t even know they were fighting. My advice to liberals and my fellow leftists is: start fighting back, or get used to living under permanent Conservative rule.

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    The insurrectionist and traitor to the United States? Cremate and leave her in the dustbin.

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    Maybe they can give her a 21 gun salute. With live ammo. Straight into her coffin.

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    The guy who made the decision was fired from Space Force for doing right wing podcasts, wrote a book about Marxism in the military and asked Trump to root out “monsters” in the military who support diversity. He’s anti-vax, pro Jan 6, basically his brain is completely given over to any right wing racist concept or conspiracy theory you can think of.

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      She was cremated and had a funeral in 2021 one month after she died. She was denied the funeral honors ceremony at her funeral at the time but this news is a reversal of that decision.

      They are inviting the family out to the Pentagon I think, where they will probably give her the flag and certificate that would have been part of the ceremony. I dunno if they are gonna have service members play taps, the song that is usually part of the ceremony at a funeral. But yeah, she already had a funeral four and a half years ago when she died.

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    my read: this is an attempt to show the public that the military is unified in support for j6. i don’t buy it. something about this feels like someone swallowed their own pride and honor and self respect to make this ‘honorable’ funeral happen. someone trying to keep the peace. military officers are not ignorant of what j6 represents, in my admittedly anecdotal experience. for another thing, observe party commisar the honorable mr lohmeir’s name on the order, as opposed to any general staff officer’s.

    it’s bad, very bad. but we’re not quite ready to start putting people against the wall yet. we’re still thinking about how we’re gonna get people to think about that first.

    edit: the honorable mr lohmeir is a published author. I want you to guess the nature of his book before you click this link.