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[-] [email protected] 55 points 3 months ago

Huh, weird. When I heard about those firings (without knowing the demographics of the people involved), I figured Trump was purging the officers who might prioritize their oaths to the Constitution over fealty to his dictatorial regime. It's almost sort of reassuring, in a comprehensively fucked-up way, if it was "just" an act of petty bigotry instead.

(I suppose it's also possible that being willing to betray their oath for Trump could just happen to correlate 100% perfectly with race and gender, but I would be really surprised if that were the case. Surely at least one of the white guys is a genuine patriot, right?)

[-] [email protected] 58 points 3 months ago

It’s both.

He replaced Brown with Caine, a man who was quoted as saying, “I will kill for you.” Caine also wore a MAGA hat in uniform, which is against military regulations, showing he puts Trump over his oath.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Some white guys, I assume, are good people. 😉

With a sample size of 6 chosen decidedly not at random this is not THAT difficult a correlation to exist. We can hope that one of them stands up to Trump, but I wouldn't bet on it.

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