In a stunning admission, Leavitt told Bartiromo that mandatory conscription – not seen since the Vietnam War – had not been ruled out by her boss.

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    8 months ago

    I’ve been worrying about this. They’ll use conscription to draft anyone anti-maga to fight and use other nations like Iran to do the fighting. If they resist they’ll be imprisoned.

    Russia does the same.

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      I wonder how much this actually happens though. Does no one ask, “wait…should we really be giving our political opposition access to and training with heavy weaponry?”

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          8 months ago

          True. In Russia they may give you the empty weapon, prod you to the APC, lock it then drop the mags inside from the top.

          They’ve definitely thought all about this, sadly.

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          8 months ago

          … They’re not wrong, you are misunderstanding what they are saying.

          Conservative MAGAs hate liberals, they actively want them to die.

          Leftists also hate liberals, and either also actively want them to die, or don’t care if they die.

          Thus… if a bunch of liberals get drafted and die in a war… the conservatives will be thinking “good, force them to do our bidding”, and the leftists will be thinking “if these clowns aren’t going to revolt against their ‘sacred institutions’ at this point, they never will, fuck em.”

          They are agreeing with the comment they’re replying to, that the internal political management strat that Putin uses in Russia would also work in the US.

          Also, for anyone confused: A US liberal is a centrist.

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        Ahh… a closet right winger trying to push the “both sides are the same” bullshit, in defiance of facts, evidence, and reason.