• gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
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    “Trending videos show residents reacting with alarm and indignation,” a summary from Friday said. “One segment features a local [resident] describing the Guard’s presence as leveraging fear, not security — highlighting widespread discomfort with what many perceive as a show of force.”

    “Gosh, we blindly followed a fascist’s orders and now people don’t trust us anymore for some reason. Nobody could have predicted this!” /s

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      Too much of the population has been radicalized by the Ultra Extreme Left. Only thing left to do is start cracking down on dissident media and turning up the local news jingoisms to 11.

      Rumors abound of Antifa going house to house and force-feeding babies Fentanyl. News at 11. Then don’t miss the Kristy Noem “Safer Under The Flag” Crime Hour, as we discuss what phonecalls you can make and what apps you can install in order to help keep your community happier.

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      Can you maybe wait until they actually do anything fascist before you condemn them?

      I sort of suspect that some of the reason for all the landscaping is that Trump tried to tell the guard to do what he really wants them to be doing, and somebody at some level told him to go fuck himself. It’s not because Trump had picking up trash in mind as what he’d like the armed forces to be doing right now.

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          Depends on what they’re doing. If they’re building up a big groundswell of resentment against Dear Leader, so that when he does order them to build an internment camp or shoot some protestors they’ll be that much more likely to turn their guns in the other direction, then I’m in favor of that. If they were doing what the local cops are often doing, and cooperating with ICE to arrest random people and whisk them away, I’d feel a lot worse about it. Have they been doing that second thing or anything that you know of?