They are overweight Texans who want to shoot colored people, gays and communists.
Comment on Texas National Guard arriving in Chicago
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 15 hours ago
I love how everyone is so willing to hate on their weight here as if that matters, what matters is if they will uphold their duty to serve this country or be cowards and do whatever Trump says. Who cares if they don’t have the body type you associate with a marvel superhero character? Even if they are infantry we aren’t talking about frontline troops we are talking about The National Guard. This just seems like such an easy way to try to start flinging mud, when the issue is existential and directly related to whether we are under authoritarian military rule or not.
100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 10 hours ago
Professorozone@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Ok. You make a legit point but their overlord just gave a macho speech about how he doesn’t like seeing fat generals in the Pentagon and PT will be mandatory for all active duty and blah blah manly things and blah blah anti woke things. Just sayin.
putainsdetoiles@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Trump is the ultimate fat general.
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
Well, a lot of people already thought the national guard was for people who want to be in the military but do nothing. My science teacher in middle school was in the national guard and he was slightly overweight and extremely diabetic. We used to have to take breaks every once in a while when his sugar crashed and he’d eat a candy bar.
I just didnt think the fitness standards for guardsman were this bad, its actually comical.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 minutes ago
They seem happy enough to Just Following Orders their way into Portland and Chicago.