Soon the military will be policing our streets with ICE.

They requested 20,000 thousand troops.

  • Stamets@lemmy.world
    131·
    11 hours ago

    I’m going to be real, this was only a matter of time. Like… The whole “Thank you for your service” shit doesn’t really happen anywhere else in the world. At least not to the weird level that Americans do it. There’s a bizarre glorifcation/worship of the military. When y’all started allowing police departments to equip themselves with military style bullshit, it triggered a snowball effect. Everything got more militarized until the point that it became natural for them to be. The only logical next step was the National Guard or US Army.

    • LupusBlackfur@lemmy.world
      4·
      7 hours ago

      The whole “Thank you for your service” shit doesn’t really happen anywhere else in the world. At least not to the weird level that Americans do it. There’s a bizarre glorifcation/worship of the military.

      For those of us old enough to remember, this “bizarre” “weird level” “glorification” is a backlash response to the treatment Vietnam Vets received on their return from that war. They were forgotten, shunned, unemployed, unhoused, unaccepted, etc. No one wanted anything to do with these Vets.

      Due to Veteran’s complaints and civilian guilt, the pendulum just swung the other direction. As pendulums do, they typically swing too far.

      Now, your point about the militarization of LEO… Concede that most definitely.

      • Stamets@lemmy.world
        3·
        7 hours ago

        I mean it may have swung but clearly in a meaningless gesture format considering the rates of homeless and suicide from veterans in the US