Summary
Bishop Garrison, a former Pentagon official who led a 2021 investigation into military extremism, warns that recent New Year’s Day attacks by military personnel highlight the ongoing threat of radicalization and distress in the armed forces.
Despite a report recommending counter-extremism measures, its policies were never implemented, facing backlash from right-wing figures, including Trump’s defense secretary nominee, Pete Hegseth.
As Hegseth aims to dismantle counter-extremism programs, Garrison stresses the risks of neglecting the issue, citing cultural and mental health challenges within the military.
The only bad extremism is right wing authoritarianism.
Left wing extremism = the civil rights movement
Left wing extremism is also authoritarianism
moment of truth: does this guy double down or learn more about what the political spectrum represents
I double down in the absence of convincing arguments
We’re not your parents or your teacher, you have to learn the value of educating yourself.
And what percentage of violence in the US has ever been caused by leftists? like less than 1% right. GTFO of here with your rightwing lies.
Leftwing extremism = communist = authoritarianism. I genuinely don’t know which type of leftism you think I’m talking about.
Please tell us your definition of communism.
How about no?
Lol. Fascist apologist
Labelling everyone you disagree with isn’t good argumentative sportsmanship
Take it off my scorecard
No it’s not. Is your little brain thinking of Soviet-branded communism? Cause that’s not left-wing extremism lol
The Red Army murdered every anarchist they could find
If “soviet-branded communism” isn’t left wing extremism, then what pray tell IS left wing extremism?
2nd time in a week I get to post this. Not that I think it’s a harbinger or anything… 😬
Remember when every single house Republican voted against investigating the depth of white supremacist penetration into the armed forces and police departments? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/house-republicans-vote-against-neo-223633093.html
I would love the two magas who downvoted me to have the courage to share the opinions they always say they aren’t allowed to share.
LOL, downvoted again but still no reply. MAGAs are fucking cowards.
LOL, downvoted again but still no reply. MAGAs are fucking cowards.
Lmao I wasn’t sure if I saw that other comment until I saw “Pepperidge Farm Remembers”
Sleeping, really? It seems wide awake to me.
Every service member I personally know is pretty open about it, it doesn’t seem very asleep to me
I was attached to MARSOC early on when they were forming the groups and recruiting from Raiders and Force Recon. I was usually attached when they needed to plus up for DMRs. Being 0317 gave me a lot of job opportunities in the early GWOT.
Anyways, we would often deploy in joint efforts with the Green Beret ODAs and almost always it was the tertiary POGs that were the most gung ho assholes. They’d always let you know how smart they were and how stupid the government was for letting all the fat purple hairs into the general ranks. This guy was the POGest of POGs as he was a glorified drone operator. I have doubts he ever left the FOB.
SOF/SF tier one units are filled with embezzling wife beaters who deal fent. I’ve rubbed shoulders with plenty of them. Plenty of them who rotate back to civ div end up robbing banks and selling their training services to militias. It’s the perfect setup for domestic terrorism.
Excerpt from another thread on the Tesla Truck bomber
I mean. Okay. But you wrote that knowing that very few people reading it would know what MARSOC, DMRs, “being 0317”, GWOT, ODAs, POGs (let alone the POGest of POGs), FOBs, SOF/F mean. And, plot twist, it was all an excerpt?
What are you on about, man?
They have been saying this for decades now. The GWB era FBI was complaining about this in regards to future domestic terrorism.
Extremism is born from the real sleeping danger of poor education and information standards which allow people to latch onto and be swayed by simplistic nonsense touted all too loudly on social media. When the rest of the world wore masks to protect the person next to them a loud section of the US population believed it was a plot to turn them Muslim. Similarly when the world understood the value of the developed vaccines a large part of the US thought it was a plot to implant tracking microchips - while carrying phones that were actually capable of tracking their activity. Every country has factions of this sort and the American population might have more reason than most to suspect government instructed mass vaccination programs but for a country with so much wealth the USA seems particularly prone to the sort of demagoguery that can take root in a poorly informed population. To put it more succinctly every day the film Idiocracy gets a little less funny.
Idiocracy is a movie about eugenics. The issue isn’t that “smart people aren’t having kids,” the issue is that our public education system is broken.
The children of intelligent people aren’t automatically born intelligent, and likewise, the children of stupid people aren’t automatically born stupid. It is almost entirely down to the material circumstances.
That’s pretty reductive. The intelligent couple don’t have kids because they understand the effects it’ll have on their careers. Nothing in that movie is about the inherent intelligence of the parents. It’s about the people that are having kids are less likely to make other decisions in their best interests like funding education or breaking up monopolies.
Nothing in that movie is about the inherent intelligence of the parents.
Did you miss the entire opening scene?
It’s about the people that are having kids are less likely to make other decisions in their best interests like funding education or breaking up monopolies.
You must have watched a different movie with a much more nuanced message than I did…
I’m not saying it’s not a funny fucking movie.
Although most of what I said put forward the idea that the primary cause was indeed that the education system is not fit for purpose and in a wider sense post-school age education in the form of dissemination of reliable information to the population is similarly flawed, it is also somewhat true in trivial reference to Idiocracy that eugenics do play a minor additional role in that the middle classes are finding it increasingly difficult to find both time and the finances to raise children. The second point you made is vaguely contrary to the ideas of organic evolution, although admittedly intelligence is only one of many selective traits to the point where as you say any attribute of the parent is in no way guaranteed to be passed to the child.
It hasn’t been funny for years, probably more than a decade at this point for anyone paying enough attention.
The premise of being outpopulated wasn’t necessary: all we had to do was decide to become a country based around “reality” TV - completing the shift that really kicked off when we elected Reagan, screen actor, to massively restructure our tax system and eliminate our mental health institutions rather than reform them.
That’s why trump et al want to get rid of the brass and replace them with their cronies
The problem with extremism is that today they may be on Trump’s/GOP’s side, and the Trump and the GOP think that’s great and look to exploit these individuals. The problem comes that at some point -
- he (Trump) won’t live forever.
- when a rabbit hole takes them in another conspiracy theory fueled direction.
- someone covets the power enough that they make a move to remove/replace Trump.
This is just a few, but there are so many more bad outcomes that I’m certain the GOP has no plan on how to counter them.
“When riding a tiger, the hard part is the dismount.”
Guys I think the freikorps might be a fascist paramilitary 🤓
Maybe pumping faux Spews into them for 2 decades was a mistake?
