How I would love to just look at them and say “actually you’re the liberal” and watch them lose their minds.
Comment on Texas National Guard arriving in Chicago
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Like Tiananmen square, the regime stopped using local troops in an attempt to flex their authority and instead brought in outside military with no attachment to the area so they would have less trouble being ordered to fire on civilians.
These gravy seals from the South are gonna be the tattered flag and trump sticker on a truck types that sit around the desk at the guard base wishing they could punch a liberal.
llama@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 day ago
One minor quibble. To date, I am not aware of any US cities where residents are actually rioting. To date, no one in ICE has actually been injured by protesters. Certainly nobody has died. No property has been destroyed. Nobody is really fighting back.
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The closest thing to Tiananmen in America in physicality was J6. Then maybe the Chaz Protests in Portland in June of 2020 or BLM in Ferguson and Baltimore. Nothing like that is happening now. Even the anti-genocide college protests at Columbia and UCLA don’t really come close to what Chinese protesters managed in Beijing.
Americans are largely passive in the face of their own oppression.
unphazed@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I dunno, the Rodney King riots were pretty damn crazy.