700 Marines ordered to assist in Los Angeles
700 Marines ordered to assist in Los Angeles
A U.S. official confirmed 700 Marines from Twentynine Palms have been ordered to assist in LA. They are expected to arrive over the next 24 hours.
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Officially using the military against civilians. Yup we're cooked
Don't worry. All the heroic men and women in the armed services will decide THIS oppression of a civilian populace is too much and some of the officers will resign. Then, in just a decade or so, they'll have O-5s who are only qualified to be O-3s and it will all come crashing down! And if you disagree, you are just a doomer!
Yeah... This does not end well in any conceivable way.
There are several historical examples where a dictator tells the military to shoot civilians, they say no, and the regime collapses.
The world is also filled with governments that ordered the military to shoot civilians and are still comfortably in power. No country is immune to authoritarianism, the US is not exceptional.
The US is just exceptionally good at being a dictatorship.
part of the problem is this absurdly naive optimism everyone has. people need to start being more fucking pessemistic and angry.
On the contrary, people are pessimistic as hell. Source: this thread.
Yeah, really if anything we need optimistic and angry
those don't go hand in hand. ever.
If that were true, no revolution would have succeeded, ever. You don't win if you don't believe you can.