• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    20 hours ago

    Agreed totally.

    I guess I’m just… overly relieved?.. that they’re not actively shadowing ICE as ICE’s body guards, the way that local police normally do.

    That they’re bothering to do PR is at this point shocking to me, given how much of the rest of the military, and the Guard and Marines in LA, basically just grumbled a bit and then followed orders, cockamamie as they were.

    An incredibly low bar to clear, certainly, … I am … too used to everything going just about as badly as it possibly could, about as fast as it possibly could.

    But yes, you are completely correct in everything you say.

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      18 hours ago

      Yes, I think these are positive signs that’s true. I worry these kinds of developments will build a kind of complacency. The difference is that these folks are under state orders, not federal orders. They’re from the state, not from out of state. These are important characteristics.

      But we should also remember that Kent State happened on state orders.

      Accept the good will. But always be vigilante. Hopefully the locals are striking up conversation with these guard members. Giving them their perspectives.

      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        17 hours ago

        So… … Trump can just supersede the governor and assume command of the unit if he wanted to, right?

        … or does that fall into another kind of technical legal / COC unprecedented anomaly category if you try to work out the specifics, so it just functionally comes down to shrug?