52% of all respondents support National Guard being used as police force
Absolutely cooked country
“Yeah, I support political violence, but only when it’s being perpetrated by the US military against my neighbors”
Burgerlanders can’t reliably read above a 5th grade level, are encouraging openly regressive and wantonly stupid views on basic science concerning their own immediate self preservation to take center stage (the vaccine section in this article lmao), and you expect them to be able to draw abstract parallels between boot deployments and political violence?
This is THE country that, metaphorically, thinks the author only meant that the curtains were blue.
I recall reading some years ago that on some international standardized test, Americans performed by far the worst on average yet were also by far the most certain of their success.
well… Its not that far from what the US always believed. But applied to it’s own citizens.
Imperial boomerang goes baaaaack
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It’s the “banana-republiczation” of the USA.
I mean you could also say the national guard may be slightly less psychotic than the police and may actually de-escalate situations rather than just shooting anything that moves.
Not trying to be hostile, but even given that generous assumption, do we really think that is why people support Guard deployments?
People actually believe the national guard uphold “good American values”, like enforcing desegregation and the civil rights act when racist police didn’t want to. We have a dim view of Burgerlanders here, rightfully so, but I do see many of them view the National Guard as just average people helping in times of disasters like tornadoes.
Wasn’t it the Ohio National Guard that perpetrated the Kent State massacre? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings (sorry for the NATOpedia link)
I think that view of the national guard upholding “good American values” has been long dead since then.
No, I imagine it’s because “our cities are a war zone that’s being taken over by homeless woke antifa homosexual immigrants” and we need to “take control and restore order”.
I think America is really in a dark place. As the contradictions of capitalism keep coming home to roost ever increasing facism is the only thing that can keep the facade up, and facism is a death cult - it’s not going to be pretty.
I saw a little “ACAB doesn’t include National Guard” when they were sent to DC so for at least a handful of people, yeah.
Would it actually be true if you said it? Genuine question, not a burgerlander
soldiers have stricter ROE and discipline for infractions, but imo all it’d take is a period of normalization & consequence-free killings by soldiers for these attitudes to relax. and/or people shooting at them
years of whatever
One of the easiest and most successful tactics for capital is to make sure everyone hates each other. The people around you can’t be trusted. They are too stupid. They are irredeemable. They want to harm you. They want to take your things. They want to kill you. They want to control you. You cannot work with them. You cannot talk to them. The only thing you can do is fight them if they get too close. They deserve your hatred because they are demonstrably evil and inhuman. You know all of this because you read some studies in the news and saw a bunch of pictures and videos of it online. It’s justified. Just give in.
All this study says is that it’s working.
I hated the diagram/graphic/poll style. My dyscalculia screamed.
Whats wrong with effective and simple bars?
you can be uneducated and parse it; that’s bad. make it complicated and useless so what’s being shown isn’t clear to anybody but people who are really good at stats and data mapping, a demographic predisposed to the “correct”/expected acceptable conclusion
I really hate that shit too.
