Summary
Bishop Garrison, a former Pentagon official who led a 2021 investigation into military extremism, warns that recent New Year’s Day attacks by military personnel highlight the ongoing threat of radicalization and distress in the armed forces.
Despite a report recommending counter-extremism measures, its policies were never implemented, facing backlash from right-wing figures, including Trump’s defense secretary nominee, Pete Hegseth.
As Hegseth aims to dismantle counter-extremism programs, Garrison stresses the risks of neglecting the issue, citing cultural and mental health challenges within the military.
The only bad extremism is right wing authoritarianism.
Left wing extremism = the civil rights movement
You can’t be that naive to believe that… The only extremism that is bad is the one I don’t like?
Do you even understand that words mean?
Would you fear a jainist extremist?
Would you tremble before an extremist pacifist?
Different ideologies have different extremists.
I would worry about any extremist, no matter their race, belief system, sexual orientation, or whatever.
Extremists are not around for reasoning, they will implement what they want, no matter the cost, be it left or right wing
Left wing extremism is also authoritarianism
Lol. Fascist apologist
Labelling everyone you disagree with isn’t good argumentative sportsmanship
Take it off my scorecard
No it’s not. Is your little brain thinking of Soviet-branded communism? Cause that’s not left-wing extremism lol
The Red Army murdered every anarchist they could find
If “soviet-branded communism” isn’t left wing extremism, then what pray tell IS left wing extremism?
moment of truth: does this guy double down or learn more about what the political spectrum represents
I double down in the absence of convincing arguments
We’re not your parents or your teacher, you have to learn the value of educating yourself.
Did you seriously just tell him to do his own research? I think that’s how we got here in the first place…
Point taken, generally speaking. However jokes aside I think this kind of thinking is more along the lines of capitalist realism, i.e. the position of the zeitgeist. The “centrist,” the uninformed, and the default view. In that sense, doing your own research can go either way!
As compared to “doing your own research” to find just enough to convince yourself that you’re special and have identified something nobody else has seen before like we see with anti-science people.
Lmao. You’re the one making claims about me being wrong, so you have to provide arguments for why that is. Saying “i know why you’re wrong, but that’s for you to find out” is lazy debating
Your premise is willfully devoid of any condition or nuance for deliberate effect. It deserves no respect.
Extremes of government are authoritarian. Left or right. Extremes of personal ideologies can be violent or even terrorism. Extremism is harm.
Believing things to be good like environmental regulation, universal health care, civil rights, or even in BLM is not extreme when they seek to undo or prevent objective harm and injustice. Maybe you are deliberately being stupid to make a point, but it’s patently obvious the parent comment pointed out the hypocrisy in labeling what constitutes extreme.
I think there might have been a misunderstanding. When I mentioned left-wing extremism, I was referring specifically to ideologies like communism and their historical tendencies toward authoritarianism—not to more moderate left-wing policies like universal health care or civil rights, which I agree aren’t extreme. My point was that extremism, whether left or right, often leads to authoritarian outcomes
Then you should have expended the time to nuance your position rather than making an appeal to hypocrisy argument and wasting your and everyone else’s time. However, your argumentative follow up responses don’t really do your claim of “misunderstanding” any favors.
You sure spend a lot of time defending fascists lol
It’s my neverending desire to present fairness to both sides of an argument. Something something broken clocks…
Let me try to be more clear: I don’t give a shit if you continue to be ignorant, there are millions of you. I don’t owe you anything.
Now the choice to keep being uninformed is yours alone, but as a human being with the capacity for human reasoning I thought you might enjoy the opportunity to be less dumb.
Your choice is yours!
Ok bud. Have a great day
And what percentage of violence in the US has ever been caused by leftists? like less than 1% right. GTFO of here with your rightwing lies.
In the 60s and 70s there was a lot of it. Really went away in the 80s
Weather Underground, Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), and New World Liberation Front. You should look into them.
Leftwing extremism = communist = authoritarianism. I genuinely don’t know which type of leftism you think I’m talking about.
Please tell us your definition of communism.
How about no?