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Military police coming to a town near you?
For a large minority of the population seeing armed troops patrolling the streets is going to be their greatest sexual experience for the last two decades.
"It feels like I'm in Star Wars."
They have this in some European countries already. In Italy they have the carbineri or whatever who go around in camo uniforms carrying assault rifles.
I took a picture of a pair of those dipshits in a piazza and they made me delete it
Uhmmm, let me correct you. Carabinieri are uniformed agents, like a second police force that's under the control of the ministry of defence, rather than the ministry of internal affairs, and while they are military, and may serve on military missions abroad wearing camo, they DON'T wear camo on normal duty, just search Carabinieri in your image search of choice and you'll see.
We do have camo wearing people acting as police forces, something they introduced a few years ago (I want to say 10 but I don't remember) but those are actually soldiers, and they're always under the command of an actual agent.
Carabinieri are the ones with the fancy capes
And fancy grammar too!
In Denmark they let members of the "home guard", a LARPing group set up during the cold war to fight the Bolshevik hordes, control passports at the German border.
Pretending to be a troop and doing border control ought to make any reactionary fully erect but in reality they are some of the most bored and miserable people you'll ever see.
It's like that interview with the Taliban guys who after taking over in Afghanistan realized that being in charge is fucking boring, and that being an insurgent not in an office was a way better life.
Unfortunately I see this executive order only leading to these fascist fucks shooting anyone to the left of them politically, and Trump's media circus calling their innocent victims "leftist terrorists"
It's also quite the escalation considering nothing shakes away the "this is happening to other people" liberal mindset quite as fast as getting shot at.
I can't help but think that this is just step one of (this specific) violent campaign to incite retaliation. All it will take is one or two instances of shooting back for Trump to fast-track his brownshirts into civilian life
There's hope. There are a fair amount of people that are arming and training.
That is 100% what it sounds like
Can't wait to be shot by some psycho troop because he thinks I'm shoplifting toothpaste (that's now $20).
They're far more likely to take the toothpaste, your toothbrush, and your car from you and run them all over with a tank while gloating about how you shouldn't loot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBNOI5JpDAY
I like how they crushed the wood too.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
the funny thing is, it seems like in most situations where an amerikkkan trooper and a cop interact, the cop is always way more unhinged and lacks trigger discipline of any kind, just panic. not that that makes me feel better about the military policing of the core, it just goes to show how psychotic cops are.
I remember reading a story about an ex-army guy that joined the police, who kept trying to de-escalate all sorts of situations, because a man with a gun wasn't too scary considering the wars he served in.
One day he attempts to de-escalate a guy that was attempting suicide by cop, it started working, but was taking a long time. Eventually, his PD showed up and shot the guy.
The army guy was eventually fired for supposedly endangering PD and civilian lives by not acting fast enough on shooting people.-
Wasn't it that he'd deescalated, disarmed, and cuffed the guy and another cop just shows up and executes the passive, already captured person?
Do you have any links where I could read more about this?
https://features.propublica.org/weirton/police-shooting-lethal-force-cop-fired-west-virginia/
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This is just going to be giving those trigger happy cops a promotion and more authority.
Not that the US military is good but soldiers have better training, clearer and better enforced rules of engagement, and generally didn’t sign up to brutalize the people of their own country (just others).
This is true outside of the US too. As a general rule soldiers are much more likely to get pissed off when you tell them to shoot at their fellow citizens than cops are.
The military is also sold as a way out for high schoolers with minimal job prospects. Probably a majority of US soldiers right now are in the military for the benefits and not for any patriotic/psychotic reason. Not to hand it to the US military or anything but the average private isn't evil the way the average cop is.
Yeah a solid half of the military hoped they’d get put in some sort of admin position, never leave the base, get college paid for and never think about it again
Is it really that low? I'd have said 90-95% weren't suckers.
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