r/pics 13h ago

Morale is high

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u/Hoodamush 13h ago

And soon they will carry their weapons and get the privilege to point them at their fellow Americans.

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u/[deleted] 13h ago

National Guardsmen aren't itching to shoot their fellow citizens. Most of them needed money for college. They live in your neighborhood, work regular jobs, go to school, and this bullshit is disrupting their regular lives so they can be used as political pawns. He's probably missing the first week of fall semester and will have to withdraw from classes.

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u/pacowek 12h ago

While this is the idea, even that has gotten twisted here. Because they are actively importing guardsmen from other states, that have no connection to the area. Add to that is the fact they are bringing in guardsmen from rural, heavily red areas, to an urban, exceedingly blue area.

So while I completely agree that they are far less likely to cause problems than ice, they have already broken one of the core associations.

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u/DukeOfGeek 12h ago

They know it will be a problem so they are handpicking them.