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park ranger-bureaucrat in Darkest Nevada, telling stories about America's public lands. EMT, unrepentant Draymond stan, wildfire PIO, erstwhile racing flack, forever believing in the better angels of our nature. opinions are mine. 🏳️🌈
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I recommend the JORPLAKZ instead. 100% real chinesium.
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An entire generation of people raised on memes and Fox News who are just completely unable to separate propaganda from reality. If there is a crisis, it’s epistemological. Fascists will try to bend reality to their ideology, but this always fails in the long run with tons of damage along the way.
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Under PC 407, two or more people gathered together doing something illegal is an unlawful assembly. That's all it takes. Not a very stringent legal standard, unfortunately.
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PC 647c suggests that it can be charged as a misdemeanor if the DA wants. either way, the point is that it is lawful to detain and arrest people who are blocking highway traffic.
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Yeah, blocking a highway is a crime.
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Sen. Alex Padilla says his message for protesters is to keep protesting
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New Vegas and its DLCs. Absolute cinema.
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yes you could give the aircraft mechanics at Beale Air Force Base rifles and tell them to be riot control squads, but that's going to work out about as well as it did in Baghdad in 2004 (that is to say, not well.)
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that gets you nine more infantry battalions, or, charitably, 7,200 more boots. there are 40 million Californians. the force ratio is all wrong.
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Probably had a police chase in Santa Monica to go cover.
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"When you've lost ABC7 Eyewitness News Air 7 HD, you've lost the country."
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if Wikipedia's ORBAT for 11th ACR is up to date, that's like... fewer than 1,500 RA troops actually trained for ground combat in the entire state.
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Air Force and Navy bases are not going to have any troops trained for ground combat, with the exception of a scattering of Special Operations units and base security forces.
The only Regular Army ground combat force in California is a two-battalion regiment of armored cavalry at Fort Irwin.
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"oh gee you've got the equivalent of 800mm RHA, that's nice, too bad your track came off and we plugged up your air intakes, have fun."
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armored forces long ago learned not to treat tanks as mobile pillboxes, because that way ends in mobility kills.
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a powered-down tank is basically a man-trap for whoever's dumb enough to go inside.
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Day 37 of the Special DHS Operation to dewokeify LA. A BORTAC Bearcat armored car sits on cinderblocks out front of an abandoned federal courthouse. An IRA style "sniper at work" sign is grafitti'd prominently on the barricaded 6th St Viaduct bridge. The fashion district is a federal no go zone.
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It appears to be easier for the Gendarmerie to be accountable to the entire French people than it is for the NYPD to be accountable even just to people who live in NYC, and I'm interested in adopting that approach.
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My point is that Europe seems to have a significantly better (nb: that does not mean perfect) system of policing, and I argue that's because it's more centralized and accountable with better civilian control than the American system of a million little police fiefdoms.
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That tourists outnumber locals in certain places and times is also true of the United States, so I don't know why this would make the comparison different.