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In an era of climate anxiety, geopolitical tensions and rapidly advancing artificial intelligence, apocalyptic thinking is no longer confined to the fringes of society

    • Francisco@lemmy.world
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      23 days ago

      When are military personel not talking officially? …have you seen Sen. Kelly prosecution by trump-hegseth-dptOfWar, they claim retired military personel do not have free speech, aka they are always bound to speak officially. So, I ask again, when are military personel not talking officially?

      • Totally Human Emdash User@piefed.blahaj.zone
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        22 days ago

        When are military personel not talking officially?

        When they are sharing their own viewpoint and not the official viewpoint of the military as an organizational whole.

        …have you seen Sen. Kelly prosecution by trump-hegseth-dptOfWar, they claim retired military personel do not have free speech, aka they are always bound to speak officially.

        Actually, what they are trying to charge him for is sedition for encouraging troops to disobey orders, which is even worse (nonsense) than charging him merely for speaking unofficially.

    • Miles O'Brien@startrek.website
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      23 days ago

      “Herr Colonel and dozens of other commanders did say ze war was to exterminate ze jews and dominate ze world, but maybe it’s just zeir own personal feelings and surely not ze fuhrer’s intent”

      • Totally Human Emdash User@piefed.blahaj.zone
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        23 days ago

        I think it is much more likely that Trump enjoys the power trip that comes from bullying the weak than that he is specifically out to start a holy war, and at the end of the day the goal of the U.S. military is to do whatever he says, no matter what they personally think about it.

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        23 days ago

        According to the person I was responding to, this is exactly what they are doing:

        Doesn’t help that the US military are saying the recent war in Iran is to start a holy war and bring about the apocalypse.