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This isn’t about keeping peace. This is about showing power. The administration just dropped the mask, martial law, minus the paperwork

ICE on the ground for 30 days. National Guard boots down. Marines on standby. If this isn’t martial law, what is? The only thing missing is someone admitting it

They didn’t declare martial law. They just brought ICE, the Guard, and riot-ready Marines to LA and called it ‘coordination.’ If that’s not martial law, it’s the dress rehearsal.

This is martial law via euphemism, and most people won’t even recognize it until checkpoints go up and curfews get enforced. And even then, half the population will cheer it on because they’ve been programmed to fear “anarchy” more than fascism.

They’re not even hiding it anymore. They’ve just trained the public to accept totalitarian action as necessary order. You get 30 days of ICE patrolling neighborhoods, National Guard with rifles on sidewalks, and Blackhawks overhead, all while calling it “support” or “readiness.”

Funny how there’s no martial law... but we’ve got helicopters, Marines on alert, ICE raids, and cops with rifles in full camo. But hey, no boots on your neck, just ‘enhanced public safety.

You don’t need to declare martial law when you’ve already got the streets patrolled by feds in camo, ICE raids terrorizing neighborhoods, the Guard on standby, and Marines loading gear. This is martial law. They just skipped the paperwork

The brilliance of the authoritarian playbook in the U.S. is that it masks itself as order. If people riot? “See? We needed the troops.” If people don’t? “See? Our show of force worked.” There’s no version where the state is wrong.

They don’t need to declare martial law when the reality is functionally the same. Streets patrolled by militarized units. Civil rights suspended in practice. Entire communities terrorized into silence. And people still call it “law enforcement.”

If they wanted to de-escalate, they’d pull ICE off the streets and stop playing Fallujah cosplay in downtown LA. But escalation is the point. You don’t send Blackhawks to calm things down, you send them to make people shut up.”

Deploying military into the streets while ramping up ICE activity isn’t about stopping riots. It’s about provoking them. Create fear, push the tension, bait people into reacting, then justify full-blown crackdowns and martial optics.

This kind of escalation is often a pretext for something worse. If they can provoke an overreaction from the public, they get to roll out the real crackdown with “public support.”

You don’t fly Blackhawks into a city because you’re restoring peace. You do it to remind the public you’ve got war machines, and they don’t. If the response to unrest; is Marines on alert and helis in the streets, maybe it’s not a riot it’s a rebellion. And maybe the system knows it.

Militarized theater to scare would be demonstrators into staying home.Narrative positioning to make the unrest look like unjustified chaos instead of a justified backlash.Systemic panic not because they fear violence, but because they fear people.

Flying Blackhawks into a domestic city, not because they need to, but because they want to be seen doing it. It’s a psyop aimed at the population. The message isn’t "we’ve got this under control," it’s "we control you." Same logic behind Humvees on suburban streets and cops in tactical gear

If you’re following me thinking I’m on your side because I insult the other team, congrats: you’ve misunderstood everything. This is a circle of hell, not a football game

Funny how when I criticize Biden, Republicans show up thinking I'm one of them. When I criticize the Trump, Democrats start clapping like seals. Spoiler alert: I think you're both full of shit. This isn’t a team sport. It’s a rigged game and I'm just pointing at the rot in the walls."

to partisans, any criticism of their enemy must mean you're an ally. Republicans followed when i called out Biden, assuming i was a fellow “patriot” or anti-woke crusader. Democrats follow now because i criticize empire, surveillance, or economic collapse, thinking I'm a disillusioned progressive.

Sarcasm and irony go over a lot of heads online. People might not catch that ALL of my CRITIQUES apply to BOTH sides of the aisle, or are aimed higher than party politics entirely. Democrats and Republicans are owned by the same people and they have the same agenda. Yes all of them

a new political alignment is long overdue. People are sick of the two-party duopoly. But the idea that someone like Musk, whose power comes from the very oligarchic structure people want to upend is the one to lead that charge? That’s like the fox running for head of the chicken coop council.

A true party for the 80% would involve: Labor protections Tax reforms on the ultra-wealthy Curbing corporate monopolies Campaign finance transparency Free or affordable healthcare and education And none of that aligns with Musk’s actual interests. He's union-averse, tax-avoidant.

Elon Musk, one of the wealthiest and most powerful individuals on the planet, floating the idea of a party "for the 80%" is like Jeff Bezos launching a nonprofit to protect mom-and-pop bookstores.