Live Updates: Federal Government Agrees to Return Police Control to D.C. Chief - The New York Times
Live Updates: Federal Government Agrees to Return Police Control to D.C. Chief - The New York Times
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This almost had me distracted from the Epstein list...
Just kidding, it was a lame and obvious attempt from the obese orange paedo.
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It's not just a distraction. It's an authoritarian take over
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That's great news, but let's not forget that the National Guard didn't sign up to be Trump's police, didn't want to be there, and had their lives disrupted by being mobilized for a cheap political stunt. They're not the bad guys here.
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Let's not pretend there are no itchy trigger fingers in the national guard.
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The few photos I've seen showed unarmed Guardsmen. The national guard isn't automatically issued weapons and live ammo when called out.
Pretty hard to have an itchy trigger finger when you don't have a rifle or ammo.
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The Guard does have a good number of your ‘renta-cop’, ‘mall cop’, ‘southern hunting bro’ types… that get their rocks off by playing war on the weekends, or deploying every few years, absolutely.
But, there’s also a larger population of underprivileged, overburdened, and poverty stricken civilians trying to make ends meet by selling their very bodies to the elite so they can play their little war games.
Should we lump them in with the police and ICE? ‘They made their choices!’, sure… but, it’s class warfare here and the elite have an outsized hand on the lever. They make us poor, so that the crumbs they feed us are enough to turn us against each other.
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They are. They volunteered knowing FULL well what kind of shit the US does and condones. Every single one of them.
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Sure, but this is national guard, not enlisted service members. It's more a defensive force just in case, and they do a lot of domestic support work, like after natural disasters and stuff. Most of them aren't expecting to be involved in the shitty stuff the US does elsewhere.
You can argue they're still supporting it, but it's not the same as those who enlist. Now that they're being used to do shitty stuff within the US though, I wouldn't be surprised if they struggle to find as many volunteers.
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The "just following orders" defense. That's a bold choice
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Why would any cops be listening to anyone but the chief???
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Because they're the foot-soldiers of authoritarianism; therefore simps for authority.
Also American cops are the most uneducated and unqualified in the developed world. Idiocracy is as idiocracy does.
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Okay great. Now, about those Epstein files...
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Under pressure from a federal judge, the Justice Department clarified that Washington’s police chief will, for now, retain control of the city’s police force. The revision came after Judge Ana C. Reyes encouraged the Justice Department and D.C. to reach an agreement or she would intervene and block the federal government.
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Just a little test run.
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Don't start giving me hope. Every time I think things are turning around and America might not go full nazi Germany, something Hitlerrific happens again
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TACO
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Distraction achieved?
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I don't think anyone at all has forgotten that the Tacostein files are still unreleased.
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I sure hope not, but people are very very stupid.
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They don’t want it to go to court.
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I'd like to believe this, but SCOTUS has already deemed Trump as the 'one true god', plus god ignores the courts, regardless.
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"Collaborative" is the watchword here.
Why would this authoritarian agree to this when they could clearly just force it through? Because they want the locals to collaborate with them willingly. If you get the locals to feel like it's a good thing, or at least better than the alternative, that they're doing the illegal homeless crackdown, then suddenly it's not as morally bad. "at least we're preventing trump's goons from cracking down. we can be terrorists more gently than they can."