• Arghblarg@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    At some point they risk re-enacting that scene with the little girl in “V for Vendetta” where the people have finally had enough with the brownshirts and swarm them. As they deserve IMO.

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        2 months ago

        I think that was the goal. To justify emergency powers enactment. Then delay election. Etc etc.

        All classic ways of a coup unfolding.

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        2 months ago

        Whose says they’re moving the Guard into cities? I know Trump is angling to give them more power.

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          They just did this in Albuquerque. 71 Guard soldiers are there to “assist” police - ostensibly, they’re simply there to “free up” police from the mundanity of things like traffic accidents, wellness checks, etc, so they can “focus on crime”.

          Overtly, this is slow-rolling the idea of using armed forces to occupy cities on home soil.