I wasn't going to post this, but given everything that JUST happened with Tenet Media...
Well.
For those who don't know, Unsubscribe Podcast is basically a bunch of Guntubers - Brandon Herrera, Eli Doubletap, and the Fat Electrician for the episode in question. Military guys - Brandon is the only non-military among the group. The cast might be larger - I confess I don't have the time to watch it religiously, and just catch it from time to time. All together, it's basically an excuse for them to get together, drink, and talk about random shit while having interesting guests on the show/podcast.
One of the most recent episodes - 174 - had two guests on the show, Habitual Linecrosser and Ryan McBeth, also two ex-military guys. Ryan McBeth is the one that caught my interest from forum talk and what made me go watch the episode in full. McBeth basically works for a civilian company in taking down online disinformation - yeah, okay. You can see the part of the epsiode where he goes into what he does here - the whole spiel is around 30 minutes long, but it's worth the watch.
So, during said spiel, he basically straight up states 'We should track down people spreading online misinformation and kill them'.
Yeah.
Instantly, we had celebration and jubilation amoung all the military-aligned set. Clearly, the idea excited them.
But after the calm down, the only one - the ONLY one - to push back was Brandon, basically replying 'So, you want to kill people for speech'. Props for Brandon for pushing the matter - hell, it was a brilliant demonstration of the skills he likely picked up in running for Congress. Words really can't do all this justice - watching the video is an excellent example of how people can be casually evil without thinking through the full implications and perverse incentives of what they're proposing can do, and just how easily people would go along with it as long as you gave it the right label.
People like to say that the military, in such extremes, would split. If you get to the point where you're hunting down and killing civilians for saying no-no words about the Government, that they'd never go along with it.
Nah. Call whoever they're killing the enemy and they'd go along with it just fine.
Am I wrong? Am I being over dramatic? Hyperbolic? Paranoid? Was all the 'based' bullshit just a bit for entertainment? Man, I sure fucking hope so. But I'm worried I'm not.
I'd suggest everyone watch the relevant portions of this podcast, to get an idea of the type of evil fuckers - and I'd call McBeth evil with no hesitation whatsoever - are advising our politicians and military.
Bonus points; You can see Habitual Linecrosser pathetically huff copium that America didn't loose in Iraq.
Also, McBeth claiming that the Military Industrial Complex doesn't exist.
Post Script; Rewatching the episode made this even more relevant, as McBeth tries to weasel-word around his excuse of killing 'disinformation actors' by calling them 'state-funded weapon systems'. And what do we have with Tenet? Accusations of being state-funded by Russia.
Cute.
Now. With that rant done and out of the way, if you gentlemen will please excuse me, I'm going to go off and get really fucking drunk.
While this is true it misses the bigger picture. Sure the US military might readily go against US citizens, but how would that ever work? The military are not sequestered in fortresses, they're just bases in cities. They do their shopping at local walmarts, they send their kids to local schools, have civilian apartments and civilian housing off base, etc.
Like sure they could drone a Walmart but then what? The person who just lost a brother or sister to it will serve them no problem at Mcdonalds? The mechanic who lost a dad will fix their cars and trucks without sabotaging it? That's not even including the massive amount of civilian contractors required just to keep the military running. Who's cooking all the meals at the chow hall if you kill the cooks or their families? Who's manufacturing their weapons, ammo, or even uniforms when you make them enemy combatants? The military would collapse before the government who ordered it would.
That's just the civilian side, they raised an entire generation of veterans on twenty years of insurency in the desert. How's that gonna go when they'll get the fun stuff from militias or just from a russian or chinese fella riding up with a truck full of weapons? That shit would be poring into the borders like crazy.
Whether they go along with it is a moot point because it would be a clusterfuck of such epic proportions I can't even fathom.