Biden’s New “Woke” Military Has A Model In Mao’s China

Revolver ^ | 5 Feb, 2021

[MtnClimber]

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is going to war against “extremism.”

On Wednesday, Austin decreed that over the next sixty days, the entire U.S. Armed forces must go through a stand-down period in order to address the supposed shadow army of fascists and racists who fill its ranks.

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What might that look like? An exclusive report from Breitbart on Thursday described how special forces were threatened with consequences for embracing “extremist” symbols like…Pepe the Frog:

Henry “told us that if anyone gets caught wearing, buying, selling, affiliated with in any way, any of those things on those list, that the first thing he’s going to do is chapter us out of the Army. The second thing is, he’s going to handle the investigation by sending it over to the DHS,” the source said. “He didn’t quite outright say that we would be arrested, he used the word ‘detained.’”

Some of the imagery on the slides clearly refer to hate symbols, such as a swastika or other Nazi-related symbols. However, also included is “Pepe the Frog” — an internet meme frequently posted by members of the political right to troll the political left. [Breitbart]

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There is a frightening precedent for all of this: The darkest days of Mao’s China.

After the Communist victory in the Chinese Civil War, Marshal Peng Dehuai was the country’s first defense minister. Although a committed Communist, Peng was also a professional soldier committed to building a strong People’s Liberation Army. Peng introduced a proper rank system, promoted skilled commanders rather than Communist political apparatchiks, emphasized discipline and proper training, and opposed the growing personality cult centered on Mao Zedong.

But Peng’s professionalism and independence were his downfall. In 1959, Peng was politically isolated and then removed by Mao, who replaced him with the more firmly loyal Lin Biao. Where Peng was committed to the PLA’s professionalism, Lin was the exact opposite. He undid many of Peng’s useful reforms, solely for political reasons. Rank was abolished as a capitalist artifact. Commanders seen as too friendly to the USSR or insufficiently loyal to Mao were purged. Instead of focusing on military matters, about forty percent of a soldier’s time was spent on political matters, being indoctrinated in the arcana of Maoism. Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung, the infamous Little Red Book that became the world’s best-selling non-religious book, began as a text Lin issued for PLA personnel. Eventually, the PLA’s indoctrination efforts led to it being labeled the “great school of Mao Zedong Thought,” and its methods were promoted within the civilian bureaucracy and wider Chinese society.

[MtnClimber]

We could be invaded and defeated by The Bahamas navy.

[Texas resident]

Joe Stalin did the same thing in the 1930’s. He purged all the upper ranks that were not loyal to the revolution. When Germany attacked them in ‘39, they were routed because they had eliminated all the professional soldiers.

History repeating itself again.

[Kozak]

And the USSR.

I expect we will have military Commisars ( with some cute SJW name) soon.

[rlmorel]

This is the Left.

As it was then.

As it is now.

Of all the things, seeing the disgusting portraits of Mao in the houses of Leftist elected officials, a Cuban flag, a Che T-shirt...

This is why we should view with seriousness their assaults on our freedoms, most of all our 2nd Amendment rights and their cleansing of the military upper echelons, and now their noise about cleansing the military at the lower officer ranks and enlisted ranks of Trump Supporters who they classify as "White Supremacists" and racists.

When these scum on the Left talk, it isn't idle talk. You only have to listen to hear what they want to do, and you soon end up like these young girls being executed by that cowardly pussy Che Guevara, whom the Left idolizes.

WE WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO SAY WE WEREN'T WARNED.

[epluribus_2]

Look at the shambles that remain of the once feared British or German armed forces.

Democrat’s wet dream for our new peacekeepers, climate-racial-gender-nation-building Euro-weenies. Motto:don’t be mean.

[Candor7]

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is going to war against “extremism.” >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

I hope they slow walk this idiot slower than they did Obama.

He needs to fly over to India to review their military and then up across the Himalayas into China to Biden betray India. And he needs to never complete his flight over the Himalaya. Those are sure high desolate mountains.

Nothing like a remembrance of Ron Brown. I wonder how interested the Mossad is in Li’l Loyd ?

Liberal Fascists , did the Dems even know they were electing Liberal fascists?

Join the Resistance Today!

The Dems did steal the election. They are afraid it will be taken away from them.

Out with Trumo supporters.( sarc)

But there are 75 million or more Trumps. Trump is legion.

Lets see the Liberal fascists do their worst, the sooner the better. Watch with curiosity as the left continues to use the BLM .ANTIFA riots and looting as a method to recruit and train their brown shirt fascist army, while decimating the armed forces.

Patriotic resisters are about to swing into action against BLM/ANTIFA. Send in the FBI per-emptively against these domestic terrorists! ( Sarc.)

Buahahahahahahahahaha!

These Liberal Fascists are such Lewzers.

So much winning! President Trump is still winning.Trump’s influence is expanding with ever fascist twitch the public sees.

[PGalt]

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those jack asses..er donkeys

[Gay State Conservative]

Everything I've seen from the Rats over the last 1+ year is strongly reminiscent of the Red Guards. Those Freepers too young to remember the Red Guards should study them closely. They personify Antifa,BLM,most college faculty members,The Squad,Heels Up...and others. I'd include Plugs in that list but he's so far gone he probably thinks that “red guards” are something that an orthodontist would implant.

[Mopp4]

Wow....never seen that picture of Che on a t-shirt.......

[eastexsteve]

Since most of the military comes from southern states, (Texas being #1 or #2) I would think the Biden adminstration is going to lose a lot of it’s military.

[rlmorel]

That is exactly the same thing I have been thinking of the Left for some time.

This article from LibertyNation by Andrew Moran sums it up quite well:

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Mao’s Red Guards And Today’s Radical Left

Throughout history, tyrannies have been built on a confused but passionate youth searching for meaning, channeling that desire through coercion, violence, and subservience to a lethal cause. During the 20th century, totalitarian states spawned a myriad of youth-led movements to carry out the aims of a dictator and advance socialist philosophies. Emboldened by the government and media, these kids used force and intimidation against anybody who disagreed with their ideas.

We are witnessing eerie similarities between yesterday’s Russian revolutionary vanguard, Germany’s Hitlerjugend, and Communist China’s Red Guards and today’s Black Lives Matter and Antifa fascist derelicts. In an age when violence is justified, will everyone to the right of Senator Bernie Sanders be conquered and victimized by the fatuous skinny white leftists pursuing a communist utopia?

The Red Guards: A Primer
A crucial tenet of China’s Cultural Revolution was the formation of the Red Guards. These were millions of middle and high school students who were mobilized and directed by Mao Zedong during the first two years of the paramilitary social movement. The communist dictator viewed the group as a bunch of useful idiots, exploiting the students to achieve his objectives of attacking dissidents, exposing right-wing figures in influential positions, and destroying historical symbols of China’s past.

He supplied them with a Little Red Book that contained a collection of his quotations and recommendations for leading a Red Guard life. A billion copies were made and distributed across the country. The indoctrination made its way to the school system. Maoism was in full force.

One of the Red Guards’ early initiatives had been targeting the “Four Olds”: culture, customs, habits, and ideas. As these young hooligans marched across China, they burned old books and art, decimated museums and temples, and renamed streets after revolutionary leaders. Public security diminished as central figures removed restraints on violent behavior, enabling the Red Guards to target any individual they wished. Every day, there were people beaten to death on city streets. If you dared disagree and not fall in line, you would be swarmed, shamed, harassed, and beaten.

What’s worse is that the state-run media lionized the campaign and granted the Red Guards political legitimacy through propaganda techniques. With personal support from Mao and an ally in the state press, the Red Guards were an unstoppable force without an immovable object in its path. That is until internal strife brought down these domestic terrorists as factionalism became prevalent within the movement.

Ultimately, the question that needs to be asked is: Why does all this sound familiar?

What’s Next?
Recently, the wokerati took to the streets of Washington, D.C., and marched across the city, howling at the moon that “white silence is violence.” In one viral video, an angry mob harassed diners and surrounded one woman who refused to raise her fist in the air. Despite reportedly supporting Black Lives Matter, the woman, identified as Lauren B. Victor, did not want to be coerced to follow the sheep. She committed the cardinal sin of individual thought and not caving to the mob.

In a separate skirmish following President Donald Trump’s speech at the Republican National Convention, radical leftists shouted down Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), his wife, and Representative Vernon Jones (D-GA). The group of belligerent malcontents demanded that Sen. Paul “say her name,” referring to Breonna Taylor. She was shot by Louisville Metro Police Department officers Jonathan Mattingly, Brett Hankison, and Myles Cosgrove in March. If protesters had been paying attention, they would have known that Paul wrote legislation called “Justice for Breonna Taylor Act” that ends the practice of no-knock raids. Despite being a party known as tough on crime, the Republicans under Trump have led the way on criminal justice reform.

These are not isolated incidents either as social media has hosted thousands of videos showing the tragic nature of these protesters. Effigies, mock guillotines, property destruction – these are all par for the course of today’s Red Guards. And the rioters will continue to get away with their infantile and deranged behavior as the mainstream press reports things like “fiery but mostly peaceful protest” and “this is mostly a protest. It is not generally speaking unruly.” Of course, unsurprisingly, no word yet from CNN or MSNBC if these unhinged demonstrators are super-spreaders of COVID-19.

Society Falls to the Tyrant
American society will survive the riots of unbridled socialists, or liberty’s nation will fall to the tyrants. Republicans are vowing law and order if President Donald Trump is re-elected, while Democrats are burying their heads in the sand and mendaciously telling everyone the demonstrations are serene. Whatever strategy is employed, Liberty Nation Chief Political Correspondent Graham Noble is realistic when he recently wrote that it is “too late to tame the beast.” The cat is out of the bag, and the bag is in the river – and it will not matter if a Republican or a Democrat is in charge of the constitutional republic. The revolution will be live-streamed. The entire world may witness the U.S. metastasize into “extremist, left-wing authoritarianism that would allow no dissent and no individual liberty.”

[AlaskaErik]

What’s next...a political commissar in every unit?

[rlmorel]

A couple of years ago, I went on a weekend thing with my wife, her sister and her sister’s son.

He was a mild kid, art major, but like many kids, kind of clueless about certain things. We were going out to eat one night, and he comes down wearing a Che shirt.

We had the following conversation:

ME: “Do you know who that guy is on your shirt?”

NEPHEW: “Ummm...he’s a revolutionary guy?”

ME: “Yeah. Do you know what kind of “revolutionary guy”?”

NEPHEW: Umm...no.

ME: “It was his job to have people who disagreed with Castro dragged out of their homes in the middle of the night and murdered in front of their families, and then the families were sometimes murdered. This guy was the one who did it.”

NEPHEW: “Um...I just kind of like the shirt.”

ME: “Ah.”

I wonder if he would have worn a Che Guevara T-shirt that had this on the front of it.

[rlmorel]

"What’s next...a political commissar in every unit?"

Yes. That is exactly what is next.

[MtnClimber]

What’s next...a political commissar in every unit?

I think they already have some form of "diversity officer".

[RobertoinAL]

This is just like the commies did in Russia.

[Thunder90]

Expect this to also come with a massive reduction in forces. BRAC, cancellation of weapons systems, dismantling of other weapons systems, and relieving personnel while slowing down recruitment. The Dems need the money and this is the easiest place to get it from.

[timza]

What a joke this guy is. A buffoon. Austin is the guy who was asleep at the wheel as ISIS seized control of Mosul in June 2014. In Syria, ISIS was capable enough to successfully conduct conventional type combat ground operations on both government forces and opposition factions, and by December 2015, it held an area extending from western Iraq to eastern Syria, containing an estimated eight to twelve million people, where it enforced its interpretation of sharia law.

[Bon of Babble]

I assume those in the military will start “mustering out”?

The government will fill the ranks with mercenaries from 3rd world countries. (in fact, I think they’re doing that now with promises of U.S. citizenship).