oh no! i allowed them! it’s all my fault!
here let me just go stop the us military from running that twitter ad….
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well shit, turns out they’ll just arrest me for that or shoot me as soon as i get within a mile of wherever they’re tweeting from.
Revolutionary France. Civilians used community policing (backed by the threat of force) to force changes to the army uniform. There were activists in revolutionary cities openly confronting troops, checking their uniforms, and in some cases escalating to violence if soldiers didn’t display rhe blue/white/red cockade. Thy distributed pamphlets persuading people that wearing the revolutionary colors was a shorthand for allyship and after not too long the army basically had to adopt it as official or expect their troops to be harassed at best or attacked in the street at worst (Schama, 1989).
Other examples- civilian pressure successfully forcing the Iranian military to replace monarchist uniform insignia with Islamic iconography after the Shah fell in 1979, Chinese citizens physically attacking soldiers for displaying traditional insignia rather than (later-officially-adopted) Maoist symbols in the 1960s, civilian nationalist groups in Ghana forcing a redesign of military uniforms to remove British colonial styling….
oh no! i allowed them! it’s all my fault!
here let me just go stop the us military from running that twitter ad….
…
well shit, turns out they’ll just arrest me for that or shoot me as soon as i get within a mile of wherever they’re tweeting from.
Better just roll over and take it then, eh? Coward.
When has the American public, or any country, had any say regarding the uniform in the military? Go ahead, us cowards will wait.
Revolutionary France. Civilians used community policing (backed by the threat of force) to force changes to the army uniform. There were activists in revolutionary cities openly confronting troops, checking their uniforms, and in some cases escalating to violence if soldiers didn’t display rhe blue/white/red cockade. Thy distributed pamphlets persuading people that wearing the revolutionary colors was a shorthand for allyship and after not too long the army basically had to adopt it as official or expect their troops to be harassed at best or attacked in the street at worst (Schama, 1989).
Other examples- civilian pressure successfully forcing the Iranian military to replace monarchist uniform insignia with Islamic iconography after the Shah fell in 1979, Chinese citizens physically attacking soldiers for displaying traditional insignia rather than (later-officially-adopted) Maoist symbols in the 1960s, civilian nationalist groups in Ghana forcing a redesign of military uniforms to remove British colonial styling….
Now move the goal posts. Do it.
I don’t have to. You sourced two very un-American militaries. But thanks for the information.
“Or any country,” you asked. The fuck?
Huh. I did. Look at that.
chatgpt do all your writing for you?
No. Interesting choice of question. Feel free to engage with the topic.
disengage
go back to reddit, troll