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      Because these is nothing to do. Literally. I’m sure they’ll instigate something.

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        And if nobody takes the bait, the administration just declares that they’ve saved Portland and it’s peaceful there now, you’re welcome.

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    Remember back in WW2 when the 82nd fought against fascists instead of licking their boots?

    How disappointing.

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    Fuck off fascists.

    Though if you’d like to visit Portland, please enjoy the flowers, the trees, grab some coffee, and try some food cart cuisine— you’ll love it. There ain’t shit going down in Portland other than we hate fucking fascists.

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      Their food trucks are fucking unreal. I’ve visited like 3 different time and have never eaten the same truck twice and everything is just ridiculously good.

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    The Minnesota Star Tribune obtained images of Salisbury’s Signal messages, which it said were sent while the official was “in clear view of others” in Minnesota.

    They still haven’t learned.

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    I hope they know their stripclubs are about to be overrun. They’re going to also need a list of addresses for “restricted businesses” aka brothels in the area. This is all highly important and for national security of course

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      As in America is a joke for engaging in this, or as in America has no clue what actual martial law looks like? Neither? Both?

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        No, I experienced actual martial law in the United States during the Boston Marathon Bombing aftermath.

        Men with guns in the streets telling you to get the fuck inside. Total lockdown. Forced military inspection of homes. Military control of civilian spaces. Commerce halted (by order of the men with guns).

        So, wrong on all counts. And I do not give a fuck if the US never called it martial law. Words have definitions. Just like Genocide and Insurrection.

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          We were getting on a flight to leave Boston that afternoon. It was a little weird in the airport, but the full situation hadn’t set in yet.

          Ironically the flight home from LA a week later was more stressful, as there had been the manhunt and nighttime capture of them at that point.

          My brother was house sitting for us just a couple miles from MIT and had to be locked down, but it wasn’t the direction they went after the security guard incident. I think they ended up in Watertown if memory serves.

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            I was about 2 blocks from the boat they found djokhar hiding in in Watertown. I was forced out of my apartment at gunpoint. This was after I’d tried to see what the streets looked like and was told “GET THE FUCK INSIDE.” I could hear the commotion, flashbangs, when they found him. Spent most of a night listening to police radio to get an idea what was happening outside.

            Shit was surreal.

            I also worked at a national landmark, and was thus on a ‘need to know basis’ making minimum wage but also being briefed by feds about not disrupting/how to identify the feds. “Anyone here with a dog today is almost definitely FBI, don’t disrupt them.”

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    If they’re truly elite, they’ll quit on the spot when the orders go out. There is no justification in the world that will protect them from becoming the enemy of their own countrymen.

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      I think i read somewhere that the order to be there might not be against the law, it’d be the order to do something.

      So if they’re just there standing around, refusing to go might be insubordination.

      I may be completely wrong though.

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    Imagine being in the special forces, standing on the streets of portaland, going national guard duty stuff… I gues they atleast are getting paid a decent hire.

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        That actually involves being slightly helpful. This is just security guard stuff. Paul Blart would be overqualified for this.