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gregdoucette.bsky.social • 20 days ago

I know exactly what the military does, which is why I know the logistics are more difficult in LA than in Afghanistan, not less

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itsthebrandi.bsky.social•20 days ago

There's a reason guerilla warfare is A Problem™ and if it's happening in a large metro with plenty places for people to hide???

bacongrease.bsky.social•20 days ago

And strong personal gun rights.

littlenomad.bsky.social•20 days ago

Might want to listen to what he’s saying here, folks. A city with buildings and alleys, cars, barricades, all kinds of things in the way and all kinds of places to hide is potentially friendly to insurgents and difficult for occupiers.

tsbigler.bsky.social•20 days ago

Plus, Iraq would be a better comparison. Iraq was an insurgency nightmare, just like LA or any major city would be.

A few months of constant attacks and soldiers would start deserting or turning their rifles on the officers that keep sending them out there to face more.

microplastic-stare.bsky.social•20 days ago

A key difference here is that the soldiers would not be trapped on the other side of the world, but would be able to simply leave and walk home at any time

gregdoucette.bsky.social•20 days ago

Easy to tell who has never worked in a large bureaucracy

gregdoucette.bsky.social•20 days ago

And infrastructure you want to preserve for your own use, so you can't just bomb it all

https://bsky.app/profile/itsthebrandi.bsky.social/post/3lr2emyrtts2k

bumbojumbo666.bsky.social•20 days ago

I've been told by people before that trump would just bomb any resistance, and uhhhh if a regime starts bombing its own cities, that means it is losing.

gregdoucette.bsky.social•20 days ago

Maybe. The Kent State Massacre suggests otherwise though

https://bsky.app/profile/yourliberalfriend.bsky.social/post/3lr2eq3onbs2e

boobs.team•19 days ago

Kent State and also Jackson State

shuchancellor.online•20 days ago

"your liberal friend" is definitely wrong, that would be an escalation, jfc i wish people would just say they *want* the fascism as opposed to saying nonsense

gregdoucette.bsky.social•20 days ago

100%

The erosion of state capacity from the government getting DOGE'd makes pacification harder, not easier

https://bsky.app/profile/mochene.bsky.social/post/3lr2f4i6lwk2g

gregdoucette.bsky.social•20 days ago

Totally agree. There are just apparently a *lot* of people on Bluesky who think supply chains materialize overnight 😂

https://bsky.app/profile/madammem.bsky.social/post/3lr2ftzkrts2m

clockworkcanary.bsky.social•20 days ago

And all those tanks and tank crews and maintenance folk are in DC right now for trump’s b’day parade.

It takes planning and personnel to move that stuff and it doesn’t move by itself, there are crews.
Crews that need food, shelter, organizing, etc.

captainpooky.bsky.social•20 days ago

Ummm, does no one remember National Guard troops sleeping on the floors of the capital after Jan 6th????

bumbledan.bsky.social•20 days ago

It takes an enormous amount of time and effort to maintain readiness in peace time. Aircraft and other complex machinery will break just sitting on the tarmac. Domestic deployment would be an absolute shit show.

dalassa.bsky.social•19 days ago

Unfortunately this is a common idea, see “just move manufacturing back to the US”

gregdoucette.bsky.social•20 days ago

But no one in MAGA is voting Dem, so that doesn't really help them

Meanwhile it antagonizes Ds who stayed home in 2024, and annoys unaffiliateds who just want things to be normal again

https://bsky.app/profile/paul.ofthenorth.ca/post/3lr2gfkdkbc2r

its-ya-boi-a-aron.bsky.social•19 days ago

I guess a quasi-permanently forward-deployed Marine Corps has been highly influential to the minds of many Americans

bexone.bsky.social•20 days ago

Or they’ve been drinking the Hegseth MANLY WARFIGHTERS ONLY bourbon

rdmacq.bsky.social•20 days ago

I mean, for perhaps a good example to go by, Russia spent years planning an invasion and camped out on the border of Ukraine for a month, and they're still fighting a war that was supposed to be over in three days.

sinboy.bsky.social•19 days ago

Protests in multiple states happening in random sequence could overstress the apparatus to breaking. Just fade away quickly after and a new protest starts somewhere else...

xehtfodrol.bsky.social•19 days ago

More overarching to me is that there are so many people in Bluesky who are desperately trying to manifest ways the military will be mobilized to kill all protesters, all the while saying that's a bad thing.

Like, what the fuck guys.

dougstern.bsky.social•20 days ago

Also, where are these ICE guys from? All from the LA area? Prob not, but let's say they are. Is this the same squad that was in fashion district/DTLA yesterday? If they're from Corona or Victorville, is ICE paying for motels? I recall someone (Raskin?) was pressing Noem on going over budget.

cdarwin.bsky.social•20 days ago

The military could barely pacify Kabul, at tremendous cost in lives, money, and munitions

That was only ~4M people, and much looser rules of engagement

The military won't be able to pacify Los Angeles
@unroll.skywriter.blue
@unroll.bsky.social
Unroll please

joshuaerlich.bsky.social•20 days ago

on a practical level, but also in the sense that there are a huge number of recently unemployed people who hate this administration

vmcf.bsky.social•20 days ago

Smart people who are familiar with the inner workings of the govt. Trans CIA agents. FBI agents who did jobs assigned to them but that involved Trump, oh and a couple of highly ranked generals too. Legit all the best ppl who were in the govt.

msmith1047.bsky.social•20 days ago

De-Baathification worked so well in Iraq! Why not here?

yourliberalfriend.bsky.social•20 days ago

Kent state did not result in general protests. Mody sided w/LEO. Also, 4 students died. 5 cops on buildings with ARs could do significantly more damage to a large protest. I hope it doesn't come to that, but we are dealing with unhinged people in office.

bumbojumbo666.bsky.social•20 days ago

Yeah it did and nixon even had to bring an airborne unit into DC because the riots were getting so nasty

ttuk.bsky.social•20 days ago

If 100 people get mowed down we'll start to see how many people oppose this and own guns. They may try it, but I think it would be the beginning of the end.

tegiminis.bsky.social•20 days ago

If they kill 100 people in LA, it will result in a tidal wave of anti-state violence. The protests will turn into Angelenos dragging cops out of their cars and ripping them to pieces lol

hal10000.bsky.social•20 days ago

The public blamed the protesters for Kent State, though.

susanschorn.bsky.social•20 days ago

If *the government* guns down 100 civilians I think it's more likely that officials even remotely connected with that event would be at risk of assassination, or having their homes firebombed. I doubt Americans would just go home and sit quietly. And we have a lot more guns than we did in 1970.

johnpontoon.bsky.social•20 days ago

Oh but it’s already been “shut down” by the courts, so the danger is over. Great job, everyone!

craigwinston.bsky.social•20 days ago

This isn't MOVE in Philadelphia!

nofoco.bsky.social•20 days ago

What's the remedy to agents provocateur like proud boys types infiltrating crowds & escalating?
Like the boogaloo boys did in 2020. They killed cops, set the cop precinct on fire & everything got blamed on "antifa".

The optics of "the resistance" are awfully fragile, susceptible to bad faith actors

kimberleelynn.bsky.social•20 days ago

I'm not sure they're bright enough to figure that out ahead of time.

redbird9.bsky.social•20 days ago

Or been in the military.

cellerby.bsky.social•20 days ago

General strike!!! Get the oligarchs to weigh in to stop this!

catacalypto.bsky.social•20 days ago

or has lived in Los Angeles

gregdoucette.bsky.social•20 days ago

I can't criticize that, I've never lived in Los Angeles either 😆

But I know procurement!

cellerby.bsky.social•20 days ago

General strike!!! Get the oligarchs to stop this!

catacalypto.bsky.social•20 days ago

logistics of getting around LA are complex enough at rush hour, can’t imagine all the ways this could become Difficult

dingodog19.bsky.social•20 days ago

Just have the protest at 4:30 on Friday afternoon in Santa Monica and let the tanks get stuck on the 405

ryanwithcupcake.bsky.social•20 days ago

Now I'm imagining a Los Angeles Commune with barricades made of cars instead of cobblestones and furniture.

chithemonkey.bsky.social•20 days ago

Yuuuuuup. I kept thinking that, looking at all these replies.

christosilvia.bsky.social•19 days ago

Depending on how this goes I think one major question is "do grocery store owners refuse service to occupying forces"?

Of course if occupying forces bring plain clothes I don't know if they can be practically distinguished from Angelinos.

christosilvia.bsky.social•19 days ago

It is worth asking "what is the government's objective here?"

As far as I can tell:

* Bullying for its own sake
* Actually carrying out deportations with ICE to keep the numbers up for Steven Miller.

The logistics of actually deporting people are challenging!

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