• fox2263@lemmy.world
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    If you have to use military force to quell civil unrest in your own country, I think you have a problem.

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      It’s more:

      Starve, or we’ll tell you to beat each other!

      It’s why it’s so stupid he’s been fucking with the NG so much and deploying them for bullshit but not long enough for benefits to kick in.

      He imagines jackbooted storm troopers cracking heads at a moments notice…

      He’s going to get people pissed off they’re there, agreeing more with protestors than their commanders, and since they can’t carry guns, they’re going to do everything possible to de-escalate. And all of their training up till this program has been for actual de-escalation.

      And at best taking a couple days to show up anywhere, most likely weeks.

      There’s no scenario this works out how trump wants.

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          I think ATCs would selectively work. Namely, to transport Allied ReUnion troops to where they need to go, while botching or denying service to the Neo Confederate Axis.

          One side wants to pay federal workers and be boring, the other abuses them.

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    Ok Pete, the biggest national security the US faces is people starving, getting kicked out of housing situations and losing access to healthcare they can afford.

    Can we deploy the National Guard to feed people and administer healthcare? If not, why not? What else would this organization need to be focused MORE on?

    How about we deploy the National Guard to build affordable housing? If we can’t do that, why can’t we do that? Do you not consider the housing situation in the US a crisis? If you do not believe there is a housing affordability crisis in the US can you please stare straight into the camera and repeat that assertion so we can clip it and raise awareness that you are an enemy of the US people?

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      Having the Army Corps of Engineers build a million houses would be incredible for this country

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    This is all that so when Trump doesn’t leave office, they have conditioned the population to expect the military to be there to shut them up.

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    Because of… the peaceful No Kings marches!? They’re offended that millions of Americans reject sliding into fascism? Or because of the future starving people because Republicans chose to stop the SNAP food benefits that have already been approved and funded? With the GOP, the cruelty is the point…

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    Oh, thank God. As long as it’s Hegseth setting it up we’ll be fine. Just make sure we schedule the revolution for sometime near last call and he’ll drunkenly send the troops to the wrong place.

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      It’s not wacko if you’re planning on escalating. They want to go full gestapo militarization everywhere.

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    yes people uttering antisemitic “attacks” when they disagree with Israel’s genocide or portlanders wearing inflatable frog or trex suits means we need a national QRF to deloy the military against civilians. I wonder where he is getting all the money to do these useless nonsense things? It cant be cheap.