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Episodes · 12 months
12
Nov 2025–Oct 2026peak share, Dec 2025
Share of analysed episodes per month, Nov 2025 to Oct 2026: 2 of 3,584, 5 of 3,862, 0 of 4,115, 2 of 4,226, 3 of 4,731, 0 of 4,438, 0 of 4,230, 0 of 4,319, 0 of 4,515, 0 of 4,419, 0 of 4,624, 0 of 4,594.
All time
16
+14 via 12 narrower
On record
18
took a position
Where they standLast discussed
5mo ago
May 31, 2026
via Military Law & Autonomous Weapons
Where they stand
Camps of opinion · 2Positions people took on this topic in transcripts, grouped by school of thought. The bar shows each camp's share of the people sorted into a camp. It is not a poll and not a share of any audience, and people whose position fit no camp are left out of it. Within a camp, people with demonstrated expertise on the topic come first, then those who reached the most listeners on it. Positions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.
Share of people placed in a camp11 people
55%
45%
- Mandatory Refusal of Illegal Orders6 people · 55%
- Condemn Unlawful Military Conduct5 people · 45%
Mandatory Refusal of Illegal Orders
Military personnel are strictly obligated to disobey any orders that violate the law or the Constitution, regardless of personal risk.
6 people · 4 episodes
Military officers have a primary responsibility to the Constitution and are obligated to disobey illegal or unconstitutional orders.
“I was also taught that if I was ever ordered to do anything unlawful, uh, that my responsibility was to the law and to the constitution.”
Heather Cox Richardson · Jun 2025 · 1 episode · 849K views on this topicMC
It is unacceptable for the military to follow illegal orders and conduct domestic operations against civilians.
“Unfortunately, as you said, when you have the military walking the streets, jumping out of helicopters, right, scaling down um the ropes from the helicopter, these Apaches in Chicago, rounding people up. I got a problem with it. I'm shocked that they're actually following illegal orders.”
MeidasTouch · Dec 2025 · 1 episode · 247K views on this topic
Jason KanderUnrated
Military service members are obligated to refuse illegal orders even at the risk of personal career consequences.
“if you believe you're being told to do something illegal, truly illegal, you should say no. you should be willing to get court marshaled and you should be willing to go and defend yourself and say this was illegal and and win the arguments.”
MeidasTouch · Nov 2025 · 1 episode · 97K views on this topicCondemn Unlawful Military Conduct
Military actions that involve killing civilians, targeting non-combatants, or violating international law are inherently immoral.
5 people · 5 episodes
Torture is an illegal and immoral practice that is fundamentally ineffective, despite claims to the contrary by intelligence superiors.
“Because my superiors kept repeating that torture worked, but besides being illegal, immoral, unethical, it just wasn't true.”
The Diary of a CEO · Jan 2026 · 1 episode · 17.5M views on this topic
The killing of children is a moral failure that should not be excused or defended regardless of the circumstances.
“I would not kill children, period.”
Tucker Carlson · Feb 2026 · 1 episode · 321K views on this topic
The speaker rejects the claim that the Israeli army is the most moral army, citing soldiers' behavior as evidence of immorality.
“So, you know, the IDF army, uh, the Israeli army, the IDF, they consider themselves the most moral army in the world because they can't help but lie, right? So, they have to lie. And whatever they say, just think the opposite”
The Jimmy Dore Show · Feb 2026 · 2 episodes · 254K views on this topicExtracted by a model; may misattribute who said what.
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Episodes discussing this topicIncludes episodes tagged with a narrower subject. Each is marked with the subject it came in through.
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Over time
Share of episodesThis topic's episodes as a share of every episode we analysed, in each complete month. We analyse more episodes every month, so a raw count would mostly show that growth. Recent months fill in as transcripts are analysed.
Complete months · first on record Feb 2024