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Comment on GOP congressman calls for execution of “sodomy-promoting” US Army general

So the reason given is that Gen. Milley delayed the response to Jan 6.

And that he is a “sodomoy promoting”, “homosexual-promoting-BLM-activist”.

The only reason somebody says something like that in the context of calling for execution is when they find these things as reasons for execution. Calling for the deaths of homosexuals is fascism, and the GOP is openly embracing it when they support people like Gosar.

Also why does anyone care about Cruz when this guy is a congressman?

Because of fascist rhetoric.

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sj_zero ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
America is a democratic Republic with a civilian head of the military. The elected president is that head.

There are some very concerning things we've learned since the end of the last administration.

We know that the military in the Middle East was lying to the commander in chief about numbers to stop a pullout ordered by the president:

https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2020/11/outgoing-syria-envoy-admits-hiding-us-troop-numbers-praises-trumps-mideast-record/170012/

We also know that Milley bragged about secretly being in touch with the Chinese military reassuring them that it the head of the military ordered them to do something they'd refuse to do it.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/15/milley-held-secret-calls-with-china-others-as-trump-pushed-election-lies.html

You might like these things because you agree with them, but America isn't supposed to be a military dictatorship, it isn't their call to disregard the civilian leadership, and it isn't their job to be doing diplomacy with countries America is hostile towards.

Accepting such actions has a dangerous precedent. The military had planned project Northwoods, an operation to attack civilian targets in the US to justify a war. It was the civilian leadership of the military who put a stop to that plan, and everyone agrees that's a good thing.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92662

Presumably, in 2023 instead of the civilian leadership stopping such a plan, the military would just go through with it.

I don't agree with the anti-gay rhetoric, but it's true that in many other ages, a high ranking military man openly telling a hostile countrys military he'd disregard any orders to act against them would be treason, and the penalty for that would be death.

If we keep letting the military go rogue, we might reach a point we wish we'd acted decisively sooner, when a leader we didn't control previously marches on Washington. Then the truly imperial phase of America shall begin.
- PizzaMan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  There are some very concerning things we’ve learned since the end of the last administration.
  
  If that was the basis for calling for Miley to be executed, then Gosar wouldn’t have said shit about Miley being a sodomy and homosexual promoter.
  
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  - sj_zero ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Why wouldn't he? The context isn't a court case where he's trying to get Milley executed, it's a newsletter where he's trying to call Republicans to action donating to them and voting for him. For right-wing multigenerational military families, stuff like the new lgbt military recruitment ads and putting trans women in as high ranking generals and putting them front and center in the media is a big deal.
    
    PizzaMan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    So he is just casually calling for the execution of somebody based on LGBTQ stuff instead of a court case. That sure makes it better.
    
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