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Also seems like poor idea in a place that suffers from out of control fires when it’s windy bsky.app/profile/iwil...
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Yeah I think how close you are to a border might also be a part of it simply because you're exposed to it more than a place that smack in the middle.
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He's just keeping tabs on you.
I'm in the middle of marking atm, and my two are being *so* helpful:
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Because when things get physical, the guys with the power can and will use it.
The only thing keeping them in check is public perception. As long as the union is following the rules, they can keep doing what they're doing.
(Yes, these are also 1960s civil rights training tactics.)
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All right, story time. Friend of a friend works in union labor law.
She says that once upon a time, a union was told to show up for a meeting. They do. Leader texts, tells them he'll be late.
Enough time passes that there are some tempers climbing, but it's a nice day and they're meeting outside.
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Most impressive!!
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Living that #PillowFortLife
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Oh LAPD will still absolutely terrorize people in the name preserving public order, I didn't intend to suggest otherwise. But there are limits to how much they're going to let themselves be commandeered by ICE
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Yep. LAPD released a statement on their Facebook page that they are not cooperating at all: www.facebook.com/share/p/16Dk...
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Moving 500,000 troops to one point without months of planning cannot happen.
That is also assuming you could find 500,000 people who are not in critical positions & that the logistics are already in place.
Yes, the US can redeploy some troops quickly, but not 25% of their total.
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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???
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And infrastructure you want to preserve for your own use, so you can't just bomb it all
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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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Doubt you'd ever get that. Most gun owners aren't going to open fire b/c they're not killers
Blockades? Molotovs? Throwing water bottles and rocks? Far more likely – and often enough
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Where do you imagine these 500,000 soldiers will be housed? Where will they get gas for their vehicles? Where will they get their food?
At peak US involvement in Vietnam, we had just over 500K troops in theater and it was a logistical dumpster fire
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No. But it's in line with Trump's insistence on targeting California and Stephen Miller's demand to raid Home Depots, so it's a reasonable conclusion there was intent IMO
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MAGA isn't voting for Dems anyway, regardless of how many protests there are
The only people who matter at the voting booth are your own voters and the sliver of persuadables in the middle. Today isn't going to push any of them away 17 months from now
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When you get a critical mass of people who think normalcy isn't coming, things snowball
When you get a critical mass of people who decide the government is not legitimate, things snowball
So regime incentive is to back down if things approach a breaking point
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Two things are true:
➡️ People writ large are *desperate* for life to be normal. It's why you don't see more people protesting, b/c they're hoping and praying that any day now things will be normal again
➡️ Legitimacy is still important to authoritarian regimes
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One day @wolmanj.bsky.social's time will come!
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Militias only get you a few hundred extra bodies
And protestors are much more comfortable fighting back against them than they are against uniformed officers
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Fair. I fully confess to not understanding LA's geography, just that there's an immense expanse of tons of people to the point that even flying over it takes awhile 😂
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With what? The tanks that have been shipped to DC for Trump's birthday parade?
Good luck with that
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They killed plenty of people in 2020 with less-than-lethal rounds too, plus maiming countless others
Odds of deaths are very high. But the more the government tries to crush resistance, the more resistance you get. Age old tale, learned by no one in power
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The thing the past 5 months have convinced me of is that these people are 1️⃣ powerfully lazy and 2️⃣ huffing their own farts
They don't have the intelligence, logistics, or capacity to do martial law
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"But not all 4M Angelenos are protesting!" you say
Well yeah, but the Government doesn't have the logistics to deploy 40K officers across 300K acres of land either
Smarter to target areas with lower population density and more Republicans, where the boot is better-tolerated
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Thing about that is that they might be dumb enough to try, but it would be a logistics nightmare. They ain't cheap to operate or maintain, they need nearly constant maintenance, and a single platoon of them (4 tanks) uses something like 50 gallons of fuel per hour sitting still at idle.