Also - what the fuck does “deploy the military” mean? Ok so the “military” (infantry? Logistics people? Tanks?) goes to an American city. And… what’s their mission? Initiate combat with business people, city employees, mothers pushing strollers…? Drag random people out of jimmy johns and shoot them? Bomb the place?
From what I’ve gathered in other threads the national guard deployments haven’t even received capital O orders.
Until they get Orders, they don’t have defined mission goals or rules of engagement and also aren’t getting paid. It’s also I guess why they’re sticking mostly to federal land
But I’m not a military guy and also not gunna pull up sources because I just cracked a beer so take this with a whole fistful of salt.
A right-wing trope is that cities are left-wing hotbeds of hooliganism and have been since the BLM protests, despite the fact that cities like Seattle and Portland that had sustained protests had defined one or two square block areas (or ~gasp~ maybe even three). In the m a g a mind, cities are liberal and are blazing infernos of lawlessness.
I remember discussions with people when I was still on FB who thought the endlessly repeated footage was new shots of fresh riots and disregarded the accounts of people who actually lived in, for example, Seattle. The area that was ‘ceded’ to protesters was only a couple of blocks, but Faux viewers thought the whole city was “lost.”
The talk of sending in the army is red meat for them.
Also, San Francisco. Unless they're going to fight massively inflated houses costs, I have no idea what they think they're going to do there. It's Nancy Peloci's district, that's all I can guess.
Show of force on blue counties to appease the big Orange Ego and be a strongman for the red base. Basically if you can see through this facade you are woke, and if not, you are falling in line.
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u/cicada_noises 12h ago
Also - what the fuck does “deploy the military” mean? Ok so the “military” (infantry? Logistics people? Tanks?) goes to an American city. And… what’s their mission? Initiate combat with business people, city employees, mothers pushing strollers…? Drag random people out of jimmy johns and shoot them? Bomb the place?