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Remember when libs kept promising us the military would never use violence against the American people? Remember how they said if a tyrant became president the military would refuse orders to harm fellow Americans?
God it would be funny if there wasn’t a literal genocide that needed to be ended first.
"Remember when libs kept promising us the military would never use violence against the American people? "
Was this before or after the Kent State Massacre?
You’re telling me people who join the brown people murder brigade have no scrupules?
We need to do a literal fucking revolution
Hope the libs will finally realize this.
No they’re telling people to be non-violent and to wave the American flag and not the Mexican flag
Yep, figures
Well, my reading of 10 U.S. Code § 12406 argues that he’s full of shit. This is a law written in case of invasion.
Wow the bourgeoisie is abusing their system of law which they and only they maintain a full monopoly of and theres nothing anyone can do to stop them from deciding it means whatever they want it to mean???
Who could have seen that coming!
Oh shit, send him a letter to let him know!
Only if we go the UHC route for delivery.
To me, this looks like yet another sign that the current regime is striving for tyranny. That, in turn, would probably mean civil war, unless US citizens are willing to accept the end of democracy.
At least, that’s how it looks to me, a European. Do you feel the same way?
I mean, it’s pretty obvious that the US government doesn’t care about the law. And then, to top it all off, there’s this ridiculous military parade for Drump’s birthday … only someone with dictator ambitions would do something like that.
Remember! They wouldn’t do this if they didn’t think they had to - this government action comes from a place of weakness, not strength.
They don’t have to, though. There’s a vast army of pigs in California. Way more than enough to handle protests of this scale.
They’re doing this because they want to.
Some of the cities are sanctuary cities and the mayors have ordered the local PD to stand down and not join ICE/DHS.
Bringing in the National Guard is a way to circumvent that and get ICE reinforcements without having to do the slow legal confrontations to dismantle what’s left of sanctuary cities
They know that as the empire continues to fall and their overreach begins to affect more lives, protests will grow.
The standard pigs can handle what we have now, they can’t handle what is to come.
Whether this move is to pre-empt a coming change of the “big beautiful bill” that guts medicare/medicaid and other social programs, an even broader “sweeping net” policy on immigration, direct hostilities with Iran/China, something else, or all of the above…
They are predicting a broad national outrage over something.
A few protests can be handled by cops, what they’re scared of is a repeat of the BLM uprisings. They’re trying to get ahead of the problem before it spreads to every city.
BLM spread because of police brutality and overreactions. If they are trying to “get ahead of it” by escalating into extreme violence quickly it will only escalate the protests faster.
The way to “get ahead” of BLM and actually subvert it is to do what Joe Biden and the Democrats did. Coopt the peaceful elements of the movement into the corporate, NGO and DNC controlled sphere, alienate and isolate the radicals, give promises of reforms and then never do anything. Every heavy handed thing the Trump administration did only made the protests in 2020 worse for them and empowered the radicals.
I didn’t say it would work, I’m just saying that this is their plan. Make people too afraid to protest.
That’s clearly their plan for the anti-genocide protests, after all.
No it comes from long experience of knowing they will get away with it.
Get ready for another Kent State massacre x1000
As American of an act as George Washington murdering Americans protesting a tax on whiskey.
Round two of the "the summer of '69 " is going to be a lot more intense. I genuinely do not envy everyone in the lower 48 right now.
I genuinely do not envy everyone in the lower 48 right now.
You’re gonna sit out the fun?
Would you want to roll the dice on whether or not you get deported by ice for flying down?
OoooooooooK. So, who wants to start a betting pool on which day this week we get martial law? Price is Right rules?
Imma say Tuesday.
This is basically a declaration of it.
I expect that declaration to be on his birthday parade when he gives his night of the long knives speech.
OK, so I’ll put you down for Monday?
Do you happen to be open on Sundays?
Like, today?
It’s a bold strategy Cotton, let’s see if it pays off.
These people are TOAST! If the Wanted to ACTUALLY Peacefully Protest they SHOULD have just BROKEN the CAPITOL WINDOWS, BEATEN CAPITOL POLICE, POOPED ON THE CAPITOL WALLS and USED WEAPONS!
Maybe even shit on a desk?
And you’re going to have to ally with those people at some point to stop this fascism.
I don’t see how allying with fascists stops fascism.
I’m sure black people didn’t foresee how standing next to white supremacists was in any way helpful during WWII, or capitalists standing next to communists, or Christians standing next to Muslims, but it was necessary.
It’s basic history. You’re going to have to figure out how to stand with people you don’t like very much, as much as you enjoy the ‘leopards ate your face’ jokes.
Though after the last six months, I imagine Democrats would rather hide in a bunker making ‘leopards ate your face’ jokes or writing sternly-worded letters than actually defeat fascism anyway.
Your analogies make sense if you identify a common enemy. We do not have a common enemy. They are directly supporting the enemy.
If you have anything more concrete to point to to explain your point I’m absolutely stumped.
