I'm assuming Kim Jong-Un will be the guest of honor to this not-the-birthday-boy military parade?
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putin will be, probably orban.
How is this making America great again? Why not just put out some floats? Why do we need to roll out the real equipment and spend millions while people are losing healthcare, SS and 401k?
I rather divide the 90 million and give every school in America 900 bucks.
you know the countries that do military parades like that are usually weak presidents.
Usually military parades are a dictator thing not a president.
Dictators often adopt the trappings of a democratic system and go through the motions to run sham elections.
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We learned after Vietnam that we needed to support the troops and not condemn them for our President's actions. We might have to re-evaluate this approach if they continue down this path. If the military does this and supports deporting American citizens, then we need to start booing them in public.
"Need to"? No we don't. Some military people will insist we thank them for their service, but everyone in now is a volunteer that saw what the military has done and is used for and decided to sign up. It's a job, with benefits and pay, and we don't need to support them any more than we need to support any other job, especially as this job involves a willingness to kill someone just because someone else says so.
The military preys on the poor and desperate. It brain washes those that don't know fully what they are getting involved with.
True U.S. history isn't taught until you hit college, which most enlistees have not done. However, being asked to attack your fellow citizens after being told to protect them is a choice.
they target alot of middle-class neighborhoods, on the low side, almost everyone in my former hs are not eligible for universities, even if they are none of them can pay for it. its not a poor, and not so rich neighborhood. i said they are sneaky in that they place thier recruiting stations just enough that you wouldnt notice its there unless you know where to look. i said they can only get so much from rural areas, as alot of them might not even pass the asvab, so they targeted the more educated but "poorer" minorities.
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No more libraries, scientific research grants, or hurricane tracking... military parades instead!
... You could easily make an entire 'you might be a redneck / here's your sign' style set out of insane things Trump and MAGA do that are just laughably over the top signs they are a moronic fascist cult, and you wouldn't even have to hyperbolize...
But of course, the audience for such a set would boo and hiss and probably threaten the life of anyone who did that Netflix special, demand they be cancelled...
Estimated to cost $90,000,000......
there, you found some wasted inefficiency, go tell those cunts at DOGE
But think of all the savings!
Dictators love their parades.
Jesus fucking Christ. Disgusting. Fuck the republican traitor filth.
Come to think about it, birthday military parades are a distinctly dictator cult of personality thing to have.
All of the sudden I'm realizing that in seeing Abraham tanks for over 25 years I've never seen a green one, only sand yellow.
Kinda makes you think about the only place the US likes to invade all the time
Well its that and also a shit tonne of the storage facilities for the Abrams in particular are in California. Everything here is brown during certain times of the year, fuck even my pale ass has to be under at least a later of brown leather not to burn to shit.
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United Banana States
Weakest shit on the planet.
They do know he thinks of them as suckers and losers, right?
•Military parade to celebrate your greatness as your tariffs absolutely massacre the economy, officially cementing record for the lowest first 100 days in office in 80 years
•Answering "IDK" when asked if you will uphold the constitution
• Your vice president saying "I don't really care that much," when asked about low approval ratings
•Your speaker of the House trying to gaslight the country into believing this is all for our own good as Walmart warns shelves will soon be empty.
•We have yet to roll out a bird flu vaccine, but we are banning some dyes in food and fluoride in drinking water...
Just stating all that to get a sense of where the red line is now? Wondering when/if the Republicans in the House and Senate will be continuing to move it as more "healthy Americans," somehow die from making America so healthy/great or do they stop bothering. Are they hoping we all just die off from disease/fighting each other for the last remaining resources before the midterms?
this would be more apt
Pathetic. Let them eat cake while we burn money on useless shit. Fuck this administration.
Hey, maybe this will finally get U.S liberals to take the immense threat of blind nationalistic militarism in the U.S. seriously instead of just acquiescing to conservatives about everything on the topic... .. .....
....or it will just be a dress rehearsal for using the military to cement the Republican coup.
Rehearsal? The coup is already complete my friend. Know what the worst part is? The US voted for it.
Lemmy.ml: "We want communism like in China and Russia"
Trump: gives birthday parade.
Lemmy.ml: 
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One could lock down the capitol and declare martial law with a troop concentration like that.
Can't spell coward without Donald J Trump.
I presume there’s Putin, Xi and Kim called as a guest?
Nazis say what?
Yes, why not waste some more taxpayer funds to polish the knob of Dear Leader like a bunch of servile supplicants? This, this right here is why I refused to serve. Not because I didn't want to defend my country (not the US), but because I didn't trust the political masters of the armed forced to use me appropriately.
Sounds like they're really Putin on a show!
Get them goose steps down boys.
Piss baby boi needs to feel like a big man after getting dicked down by China.
How the fuck does he justify this shit, how the fuck do maga justify this shit. But these are the same voters that are against feeding hungry kids or free healthcare lol
trump saw putin and KIM got one, why not him
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Gross.
Krasnov will order the soldiers to goose step and wear jack boots. What a waste of taxpayer money. All the spectators will be forced to cry like a bunch of North Koreans.
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It's comforting to know most of the uniformed participants will probably dislike the experience and think it's a cringe waste of their time.
Every soldier in that parade should get a medal saying they served there on that day. The amount of brass in bins will tell Trump everything he needs to know
And just like that morale is going to evaporate. I can't wait to see how stupid he looks.
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