• agent_flounder@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    An annual Pentagon report on extremism within the ranks reveals that 78 service members were suspected of advocating for the overthrow of the U.S. government and another 44 were suspected of engaging or supporting terrorism.

    I wonder how many they don’t know about?

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        11 months ago

        How about a few that we do know about? Like Atomwaffen Division’s Brandon Clint Russell, who was trying to build a dirty bomb with his friends who he killed. Or, like… Timothy McVeigh? There’s a long history of extemism in the US military and it goes from bad to catastrophic.

        Given the ones we do know about, the ones don’t are even more frightening.

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      11 months ago

      I wonder how many are liberal and how many are conservative? I’d like to see the numbers when trump was in power also. If you’re wondering why I think any would be liberal at the moment with a liberal government it’s because some people are absolute idiots and it’s interesting when it happens