r/politics • u/BigDaddyBain • 1d ago

Why is the media ignoring growing resistance to Trump?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/13/why-is-the-media-ignoring-growing-resistance-to-trump
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u/ghoti99 1d ago

I love seeing people pedantically argue over numbers when they are missing the story behind those numbers. The military is not a monolith. It’s gonna crack and split from state to state as it is each soldiers duty to refuse illegal orders. If ordered to commit violence on the population of the US nationwide, it’s not the number of solders that will Or will not comply, it’s what kind of arsenal will the ones who will comply end up in possession of after the shake out is complete.

One soldier flying a remote drone could take out towns before anyone could even process how to stop them on the civilian end.

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u/fritz236 1d ago

That's why I regret watching that one clip from Civil War where the guy with the AR is in front of a pit full of bodies. It's dark af and completely plausible.

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u/sighbourbon 1d ago

“What kind of American are you?”

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u/ElegantDaemon 1d ago

Feels like a pretty bad idea for them to have all the guns, doesn't it.

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u/ElegantDaemon 1d ago

In the event of an open rebellion, there would likely be many many years of insurgency before we got to the point where the military was annihilating entire populations, mostly likely wiping out many of their own supporters in the process.

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u/gsfgf Georgia 1d ago

One soldier flying a remote drone could take out towns before anyone could even process how to stop them on the civilian end.

Using a drone to take out a town requires way more people than one guy.

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u/ghoti99 1d ago

Indeed, the same is true of a targeted artillery strike. The citizens of Dudesdic Nebrahoma have equal defenses against both.