• Zephorah@discuss.online
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    1 day ago

    It’s not right but I’m not afraid of national guard standing in front of a ballot box.

    ICE? They’re unhinged with no accountability, seeming eager to murder the American people for little to no provocation.

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      1 day ago

      I have a feeling the first part of this comment is going to age poorly

      • Zephorah@discuss.online
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        They’re trained. And they probably don’t want to be there.

        ICE is untrained and very eager.

        Given a choice, which would you prefer?

        But yes, shit can always go sideways with this admin. They give zero fucks for We The People.

        • CH3DD4R_G0B-L1N@sh.itjust.works
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          8 hours ago

          They’re trained. And they probably don’t want to be there.

          I like your optimism and wish I could share it, but that is very unit and personnel dependent and on a large gradient of quality.

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          I’d avoid both but if I had to choose, I’d choose the ones that swore an oath to the constitution. Expecting people to honor their oath is a losing bet though, especially American soldiers, given the training they go through that systemically destroys their ability to critically think.

      • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world
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        15 hours ago

        Kent State took place at a peaceful protest, a rally protesting the expansion of the Vietnam war.

        A ballot box is not a group of people falsely deemed to be a terrorist threat. It’s just a box. And no order to shoot would be followed by any real Guardsman.

        Sounds like you just want people to be afraid to vote, and this event is pure theater conducted by this administration to try to achieve just that. Trump wants people to be too afraid to vote. Stop helping Trump.

        No one I know is buying that shit, and no NG I personally know (I’ve been friends with many and kept up with a few) would do more than just stand there. National Guard is not ICE.

        Stop making like a NG shooting at a fifty-six year old protest at the height of the Vietnam War, and a group of peaceful NGs standing at a ballot box, are the same thing or even similar. They are not.

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      21 hours ago

      Excuse me? You can’t even legally wear cammo in other countries because of its intimidating nature. Glad to hear your not afraid of the oppression, I guess.