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Pete Hegseth --> Frank Bradley --> ?
Let's keep the names coming. Who relayed the order to troops on the ground? Who pulled the trigger?
Each and every one of these troopers have been trained on the Laws of War, and knows they are obliged not to follow illegal orders.
Let's keep the names coming. Who relayed the order to troops on the ground? Who pulled the trigger?
Each and every one of these troopers have been trained on the Laws of War, and knows they are obliged not to follow illegal orders.
November 30, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Pete Hegseth --> Frank Bradley --> ?
Let's keep the names coming. Who relayed the order to troops on the ground? Who pulled the trigger?
Each and every one of these troopers have been trained on the Laws of War, and knows they are obliged not to follow illegal orders.
Let's keep the names coming. Who relayed the order to troops on the ground? Who pulled the trigger?
Each and every one of these troopers have been trained on the Laws of War, and knows they are obliged not to follow illegal orders.
Okay, well the answer is "yes, the United States is under fascism right now" and also, no the United States government is not a fully empowered fascist regime.
Hope that clears up the argument you were having with a thing.
Hope that clears up the argument you were having with a thing.
"Is the United States under fascism right now" was always the thing I was arguing with.
This person does not understand the motte/bailey fallacy, which is to say something something unreasonable, retreat to something far more reasonable, and then to conflate the two.
This person does not understand the motte/bailey fallacy, which is to say something something unreasonable, retreat to something far more reasonable, and then to conflate the two.
Tom's mistake here is known as a "motte and bailey fallacy" --- he's retreating to the narrow argument of "is the government of the United States a fully empowered fascist regime?"
November 22, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Okay, well the answer is "yes, the United States is under fascism right now" and also, no the United States government is not a fully empowered fascist regime.
Hope that clears up the argument you were having with a thing.
Hope that clears up the argument you were having with a thing.
Tom's mistake here is known as a "motte and bailey fallacy" --- he's retreating to the narrow argument of "is the government of the United States a fully empowered fascist regime?"
My mistake has been trying to explain what "fascism" is to people who don't care what it is.
So I'm going to try something else. Let's do this as a practical thought exercise.
If America *were* fascist *today* - what would you have to do differently in your daily life? /1
So I'm going to try something else. Let's do this as a practical thought exercise.
If America *were* fascist *today* - what would you have to do differently in your daily life? /1
November 16, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Tom's mistake here is known as a "motte and bailey fallacy" --- he's retreating to the narrow argument of "is the government of the United States a fully empowered fascist regime?"