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More scary stuff coming out of the White House (www.whitehouse.gov)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Sec. 4. Using National Security Assets for Law and Order. (a) Within 90 days of the date of this order, the Attorney General and the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security and the heads of agencies as appropriate, shall increase the provision of excess military and national security assets in local jurisdictions to assist State and local law enforcement.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.

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"

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

All it will take is one or two instances of shooting back for Trump to fast-track his brownshirts into civilian life

doomer

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

There's hope. There are a fair amount of people that are arming and training.