The deployment marks the first time federal troops have been deployed on domestic soil against the wishes of state authorities since the 1960s.
  • cygnus@lemmy.ca
    84·
    3 days ago

    Who could have foreseen that the guy who said “I’d love to be a dictator” is doing dictator things? Certainly not the 77 million people who voted for him.

  • throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    How long before they activate the USA version of the Great Firewall?

    One of these days, Americans are gonna try to browse on Lemmy but then realizing its blocked, and martial law is already in effect.

    • wavebeam@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 days ago

      I’m travelling to Florida right now and I can’t view pornhub or any if it’s owned brands, which is a lot of adult content right now. It’s apparently like this in 17 states. That’s a self-imposed block, but it’s because those states have ID check laws that are so invasive that they’re rather not serve to those states.

  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
    201·
    3 days ago

    Good thing Trump is a wimp.

    As others have pointed out, he may talk loud and roleplay as a dictator hard, but (so far, in the business and political world), Trump shrinks when faced with a fair fight. He’ll jawbone and bully and blow little guys up to look good. He cares about himself, and will brag about every loophole he exploits.

    But it’s much harder for him to, say, cross the line of arresting Newsom. Other dictatorships, even modern pseudo ones, feels eerily similar, but look closely, and it appears the leaders pushed the envelope strategically. Hitler, for instance, was relatively tame at first and took calculated, increasingly drastic and brutal steps, wheras Trump consistently backs down from the Machiavellian solution. See: the response to Elon’s betrayal (so far).

    At least that’s my hope.

    And I hope someone with a spine doesn’t follow in his footsteps. The apparatus built around him is much scarier than Trump.

  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
    17·
    3 days ago

    I would like to see how much damage was done Saturday night. Hint: not much. I watched the live streams and it was just a lot of ICE standing in a line and LA peeps walking around. Very few protesters.

    Then I would like to see the damage from Sunday. Hint: It was a few cars and waymos. The rest was a bit of flags and rubber bullets aimed at reporters and protestors to do harm. Oh yeah, I lot of smoke by soldiers and/or agents. Nothing makes great photos like smoke and fire when there really isn’t much else going on. The reporting photos this morning made me laugh at how they focused on the pretty waymo fires and smoke.

    Saturdays Live Streams:

    Sunday’s Live Streams: