They're arresting people without warrants. They're deporting people without due process. The whole purpose of the law (allegedly) is to provide a recourse when the state violates your rights. If people cannot depend on due process, the only obvious alternative is force. This is what they are preparing for.
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This is probably gonna be unpopular, but as someone from the global south I can't help but feel just the tiniest bit of glee to see Gringos suffer a bit of what they have inflicted on our countries.
Anyways, get a gun.
Nah I get it
If only they were pointing those guns at gringos, and not refugees
It's a pretty valid sentiment.
Like when you see a kid fucking around with a rubber band and finally it snaps and it gives them a welt and they cry and cry and because you're a grownup you have to use it as a teachable moment and comfort them.
But in the back of your mind you can't help but think "heh, fuckin dumbass kid, I warned your dumb ass, fucking idiot, you totally deserved that."
Fair, I guess this is what we get for being useless to stop US imperialism
Ammo is so expensive ;_;
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Military police coming to a town near you?
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).
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.
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.
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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.-
OUR IDEAL APPLICANT IS:
-SEXUALLY CONNECTED TO GUN
-ROCK FUCK STUPID
-GAMER
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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.
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A serious message to all Americans:
Start planning for the worst. Buy and learn how to use a firearm. Get all your passports and documentation up to date and on hand in case you need to flee. Do not give them an excuse to deny your exit from the States as they will do this if your papers aren't all in order. Save up money in a foreign currency, learn a second language if you only know English.
Do whatever you need to do in order to be able to flee the country. It might sound like fear mongering, but it is better to be safe than sorry.
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feels explicitly like counter-insurgency
Book description
In his new book, critical theorist Mark Neocleous engages in a sustained critique of the theory and practice of pacification. Combining philosophical analysis with historical detail, Neocleous analyses the development of pacification as a key concept through which capitalist modernity has been organised, offering readers the first book that treats pacification as an important concept in the history of state power and capitalism. Neocleous’s approach is fourfold, examining pacification as social warfare carried out through the ideology of peace; as a form of social police carried out through mechanisms of security; as law and order exercised through the permanent wars of class society; and as the myriad practices of power designed to counter insurgency.
Making use of official documents of state, the writings of counterinsurgency thinkers and the ideas perpetuated by practitioners of counterrevolution, the book unravels the complex ways through which pacification generates new forms of social war and new modes of policing that reproduce capitalist order and fabricate obedient subjects.
Through expansive accounts of war and police, and engaging with a range of topics from debt to death, from stasis to civil war, and from the police kettle to the politics of fear, the book offers a provocative analysis of the ways in which state and capital combine to build a pacified social order.
At this point, i don’t need a work analyzing the situation. Give me the instructions to rig a shotgun to the door.
america has no real laws and what laws do exist only exist to legitimize government tyranny
i hope every pig working for ice gets iced and i hope time works its magic on trump a little faster. i hope JD vance finds out he looks like that because he actually has some type of incurable cancer that’s slowly eating him alive
2015 "I could shoot an innocent person on 5th Avenue and not lose a single voter."
. . .
2025 "I can deputize tens of thousands of masked thugs to shoot innocent people and not lose a single supporter."
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Damn, where’s those Jade Helm weirdos at to cry and piss about Posse Comitatus and FEMA camps.
Now that the scary black president is out of office they focused their attention to scaremongering over ms-13.
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Lining up to volunteer at the fema camps.
Time for EVERYBODY to start getting familiar with operating a firearm.
And start operating from the frame of mind that you're already dead if the cops get their foot in your door.
Don't worry folks if you just vote in 3 years they'll give all this power back peacefully without any issues at all
If Democrats had shut down the government, they couldn’t even pay the truck drivers for this.
My small city's ocal PD already has an armored vehicle, wonder what they'll get next? Maybe an Abrams?
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Love to unleash my law enforcement like they're dogs who need to be unleashed so they can attack people.
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Aggressive crime prosecution involves showing up 40 minutes late and in riot gear to take a GTA report and go “that sucks”.
Tag yourself I'm
Sec. 5. Holding State and Local Officials Accountable. ... State and local jurisdictions whose officials:
(b) unlawfully engage in discrimination or civil-rights violations under the guise of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” initiatives that restrict law enforcement activity or endanger citizens.
smoking that white-washed MLK pack
Posse comitatus, clear violation of constitution see you in court you orange fuckhole 
"You have no idea how bad you look right now" I tell my fascist captor as I'm lined up at the edge of a mass grave.
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foucault's boomerang? my brother in christ, i'm going to upgrade you to foucault's trebuchet
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We got 90 days to become ungovernable
Trump was malding over interior migrant raids not being as successful as he hoped, so I imagine this is to help with deportations.
Also expand already ridiculous protections afforded to pigs and prepare the prison system to receive undesireables
Sec. 3. Empowering State and Local Law Enforcement. (a) The Attorney General and other appropriate heads of executive departments and agencies (agencies) shall take all appropriate action to maximize the use of Federal resources to:
…(iv) strengthen and expand legal protections for law enforcement officers;
(v) seek enhanced sentences for crimes against law enforcement officers;
(vi) promote investment in the security and capacity of prisons; and
(vii) increase the investment in and collection, distribution, and uniformity of crime data across jurisdictions.
Didn't Biden sign a bill at the end of his term that made it much easier to deploy US troops and intelligence units onto US soil to assist with the police? (Yes he did)
America tries to do the "good cop/bad cop" routine to itself via Biden and Trump but they're both senile shitheads so they end up doing "bad cop/bad cop."
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I want him to shell the Congress but that's not going to happen, it's not like the Congress is doing anything against the Executive.
The entire American government is controlled opposition, it's all kayfabe. At best they'll go through the motions, make a speech about "this isn't us", and pass anything that the executive branch wants
I guess this means we’re waiting until the local cops have rocket launchers before we act?
I would say 'called it' and link the comment, but I think it is pretty obvious this was going to happen.
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