r/news • u/Traveler606 • 6d ago

Steve Bannon must report to prison by Monday after Supreme Court rejects last-minute appeal

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/steve-bannon-must-report-prison-monday-supreme-court-rejects-last-minu-rcna158584
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u/MalcolmLinair 6d ago

All the law enforcement agencies are drooling at the prospect of getting to be enforcers for the fascists, and as such be above the law they're supposed to enforce.

Even a populist uprising al the French Revolution wouldn't work anymore; the French Monarchy would never have fallen if they'd had access to machine guns, helicopters, cruise missiles, chemical weapons, and nukes.

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u/Hautamaki 6d ago

The French Monarchy fell for the same reason the USSR and almost all large governments fall; the army turned against them. It would be the same in the US, and always has been. Either the army turns on the government, or it doesn't, and the government remains in power. There's never been a serious prospect of a popular revolt succeeding without military support. Even the revolution would have failed without the French.

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u/framblehound 6d ago edited 6d ago

The USSR didn’t fall because the military turned against the government

It crumbled and was disbanded, economic failure led to glasnost and perestroika

The French Revolution while it became a military struggle started with the storming of the bastille which was not a military action at all, and was followed by a number of years of chaos

Your history in both your examples is wrong

If the military were to take over in the USA it would be a travesty of the highest proportions and from thdn on we would be at the whim of that happening again, much like in Turkey

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u/TypicaIAnalysis 6d ago

Also france is tiny. When you can travel across your country in 6 hours its a lot easier to seize control.