• BigDiction@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I have faith that there are many people in the military chain of command who are smart enough to ‘interpret’ orders and posture deployments in a way that does not escalate and lead to killing.

    ICE and the civilian LEO have less discipline and the risk of escalation is immensely higher. I’d take the National Guard who follows orders and is subject to court martial over the jack boots any day of the week.

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      1 day ago

      They will just be fired like everyone else who puts up resistance to the current administration.

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          24 hours ago

          The National Guard is a combination of full time and mostly weekend reservists. Some are full time to keep everything running.

          The National Guard is also state level and the most likely part of the military to refuse unlawful orders, at least from blue states. I expect those in red states to be pretty awful though, and they have already been tasked with enfocing immigration in states like Texas.