Some 1,500 active duty Army paratroopers have been put on alert for a potential deployment to Minnesota, according to two defense officials.

They’re ones who are trained and equipped for arctic warfare. This is kind of thing you do when planning to massacre civilians.

Edit: The Washington Post is now saying the same thing:

Pentagon readies 1,500 soldiers to possibly deploy to Minnesota, officials say

Soldiers with the Army’s 11th Airborne Division in Alaska have been placed at the ready following Trump’s Insurrection Act threat, according to defense officials.

  • hector@lemmy.today
    22·
    22 hours ago

    Ah yes, the nuance of nominating unelectable candidates running as the status quo throwing elections to fascists fully intent on fixing elections.

    But those fascists help those unelectable candidates get chosen, help shout down calls for winnable candidates and platforms. You are a valuable maga player whether you know it or not, a Generally Important Maga Player, or gimp for short.

    • village604@adultswim.fanEnglish
      51·
      19 hours ago

      Harris wasn’t nominated, which is part of the problem, but that’s ultimately on Biden.

      Harris ran a shit campaign, but she basically got thrown into it at the last minute. Campaigning against trump was expensive, so she shifted her message to try to secure more funding and reach across the aisle to win people away from trump. That ended up being a mistake.

      But, as VP she pushed for an official investigation into Israel’s actions in Gaza that would have been required to negate the law requiring us to fund them. And if you look at her Senate voting history, she was the closest to Sanders out of everyone.

      Often in life you don’t get perfect choices, or even good ones. There will never be a political candidate that will check all of your boxes, but when the choice is between getting a cavity and getting curb stomped, only an idiot would bite the curb.

      Letting Trump win isn’t punishing the Democrat leadership, it’s punishing the entire country and then some. The right move would have been to elect Harris, then spend the next 4 years working on primarying the neoliberals. The MAGA movement would have lost a ton of steam if he had lost, which would have given some breathing room to do that.

      But now everyone’s efforts are going towards fighting back against Trump’s promised fascist takeover of the country, a genocide on our own home soil, a looming great depression, and the start of WWIII.

      Progress is slow, and choosing the 2024 election to make a stand was really fucking stupid timing, as evidenced by the current state of affairs.