silence7@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoFor Trump, This Is a Dress Rehearsal | Ordering the National Guard to deploy in Los Angeles is a warning of what to expect when his hold on power is threatened.www.theatlantic.comexternal-linkmessage-square101fedilinkarrow-up1797arrow-down14
arrow-up1793arrow-down1external-linkFor Trump, This Is a Dress Rehearsal | Ordering the National Guard to deploy in Los Angeles is a warning of what to expect when his hold on power is threatened.www.theatlantic.comsilence7@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square101fedilink
minus-squareTinidril@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoThe order is far from certain to come. It’s not like Trump or his buddies will be anywhere close to the action, and a general order to unnecessarily fire on civilians is not even likely to be passed down.
minus-squareouthouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-23 days agoThe order will be issued from tge top. Its already in the minds of every cop. The question is how far down the chain it gets. Maybe the general says ‘No.’ Maybe a captain goes off mission. Maybe a bottom level guy pretends his gun is jammed. And maybe if they all fail, we go from the bad timeline to the worse one
The order is far from certain to come. It’s not like Trump or his buddies will be anywhere close to the action, and a general order to unnecessarily fire on civilians is not even likely to be passed down.
The order will be issued from tge top. Its already in the minds of every cop.
The question is how far down the chain it gets.
Maybe the general says ‘No.’
Maybe a captain goes off mission.
Maybe a bottom level guy pretends his gun is jammed.
And maybe if they all fail, we go from the bad timeline to the worse one