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Anyone saw the news about South Korea and their political situation? Imagine that situation happening in your country…
Depends on the reason. Either stay indoors and chill or get out of the country.
Be forbidden I guess.
Escape north over the bord— oh, wait…
Get out my nunchucks, take to the streets, and fight the system. Probably put “Calm like a bomb” by Rage on in my headphones.
“Why is that dude hitting City Hall with nunchucks?”
“He said he was fighting the system.”
Why is that dude hitting the municipal water infrastructure?
He said he was fighting the cistern.
Go back to bed
To answer that, I’d have to know what that would even entail. Our constitution does not have “martial law”, we have a vaguely similar thing where it depends entirely on the circumstances what it entails and that has never been invoked.
Staying inside with the doors locked and the curtains drawn.
Depends on the reason. If’s a clear and justifiable one then I’ll try and help, otherwise I’ll do what the authorities are requesting.
If it’s NOT a clear or justifiable reason then I may have to give my old friend Thomas Jefferson a call.
Wait a couple hours for the parliament to go WTF and have every member regardless of party vote to rescind the martial law order.
laughs in American
But Americans have guns so it could never happen there - right? That’s the reason having hundreds of school shootings is worth it? /s
A lot of those gun owners are also boot lickers.
“We need our guns to protect our civil liberties from a tyrannical government! But if we like the tyrant in charge, then tread on us harder, daddy!”
They did vote. The military said they will only withdraw if Yoon orders it to end. They’re ignoring parliament. Hell they blocked them from going in to vote
Not every country has a reasonable legislature like South Korea. Wait, are you in South Korea right now?
Na. In Europe.
More likely what would happen here is someone will challenge the order in the courts and request a stay of order until the judge rules on weather the order is legal or not.
That is what happened during COVID when we had curfews.
The same thing I do every day - hide and try really hard not to kill myself.
Sleep in, really long
It’s going to happen in the US when Trump’s term runs out.
When fascists are going to lose power but don’t want to lose power they declare martial law.
South Korea is a unitary state, the US is federal. A bit harder to do in the US.
Not really. The military is controlled by the federal government. The state governments exist only to decide “small” local matters. And don’t have their own armed forces.
I honestly fear that our military will do something like this. There are a LOT of chuds in the military.
The state governments exist only to decide “small” local matters.
You forgot the long fucking history of states butting heads with the feds in everything from police jurisdiction to road quality. Just because the feds are “in charge” does not mean they are in control.
And don’t have their own armed forces.
Wrong. National guards are literally state funded militaries, on state or federal orders, depending on what they’re doing. They don’t go on federal orders without state approval first though.
I honestly fear that our military will do something like this. There are a LOT of chuds in the military.
It more depends on whichever military general decides to do than anything else. They can and have told Trump to fuck off (before losing their careers, but still stopping the orders) in his past presidency. The average soldier can’t do shit to change federal policy.
It’s going to be miserable for a lot of people in the next four years, but civil war would destroy practically everything. It for goddamned sure wouldn’t have any clear winners either. Nobody sane wants that.
Although originally state entities, the Constitutional “Militia of the Several States” were not entirely independent because they could be federalized. According to Article I, Section 8; Clause 15, the United States Congress is given the power to pass laws for “calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions.” Congress is also empowered to come up with the guidelines “for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress” (clause 16). The President of the United States is the commander-in-chief of the state militias “when called into the actual Service of the United States.” (Article II, Section 2).
The traditional state militias were redefined and recreated as the “organized militia”—the National Guard, via the Militia Act of 1903. They were now subject to an increasing amount of federal control, including having arms and accoutrements supplied by the central government, federal funding, and numerous closer ties to the Regular Army.
The state’s national guard would only listen to the president if they view hin as legitimate. If the presidebt start saying: “I’m declaring martial law and ordering the arrest of these lawless democrat thugs to restore law an order” the state national guard would probably go “wait wtf?”, then the Democratic Governor will declare those orders unconstitutional then tell the national guard to refuse federalization and listen to the state. Then the real test is to see who they listen to. That could decide the fate of the country.
Who did every active duty and veteran you know vote for, again?
You know, not every memberbof military voted trump. And even for those who did, they are just useful idiots who actually are stupid enough to believe that trump is good for the country, they might not realize he’s actually trying to end democracy, they are just that dumb. My hope is that they will eventually realize it when trump start giving orders like “Kill Everyone Who Disagrees With Me” and refuse those orders.
I honestly fear that our military will do something like this.
Your fear is overblown. The US Military would get chewed up and spit out by Armed American Civilians. We outnumber them by at least 50 to 1 and there would be nowhere for them to retreat too in between engagements. Their logistics would be entirely cutoff and they wouldn’t even be able to go home because their neighbors (at least some of them) would be waiting.
They could try but realistically it would be over (in most places) in like two weeks.
The US Military would get chewed up and spit out by Armed American Civilians.
You forget who those Armed American Civilians virtually ALL voted for.
You forget who those Armed American Civilians virtually ALL voted for.
Don’t believe the hype, there’s plenty of Armed American Civilians who didn’t vote for that guy. They are not the real majority they are just noisy.
What is Bubba going to do with his Ford and his AR when a fuckin’ tank rolls down the middle of 23rd Avenue? How about when a drone hits his buddy with three fingers and all the pipe bombs?
Unless your local rednecks are packing some serious fucking heat- talking anti-tank, anti-air- you will 100% get Ruby Ridged. Maybe you take out a couple 19 year old kids? But to think that “armed American civilians” would be able to do anything besides piss themselves and bleed in the face of the most powerful military in the world is utterly delusional.
Toss my tool bag into my truck and drive to the customer’s house I guess unless told to do something else by the authorities.
Well I still have to go to work tomorrow, so I guess make sure my alarm is set.
Not talk about what I’m doing publicly. In fact, not talk about what I’m doing AT ALL.
Lol this is more of a “how are you spending your free time during martial law” question less of “are you gonna do a violent revolt” question
Oh, well, in THAT case… “Not talk about what I’m doing publicly. In fact, not talk about what I’m doing AT ALL.” :)
