Obviously no good can come of this domestically, but since all the Generals will be there instead of doing their jobs, it would also be a window of opportunity for China to invade Taiwan.

In every company I’ve worked for that had middle managers, they spent 80% of their time trying to justify their position with self-assigned busy work to try to look useful for the company.

Eh, it can be either

The slow decent into fascism helps them, not the rest of us.

I mean, more than half. Almost everyone on the Left thinks Democrats share blame with Republicans even if Republicans are MORE to blame.

I don’t see a scenario where our country can heal from this mess unless Stephen Miller faces his own Nuremberg trial

Following Orders is deeply engrained in the military and obedience to authority is a hallmark of right-winger thought (they make up the bulk of the miliary). Unless it’s extremely heinous like “fire on this old folks home” most soldiers will probably go along with murder.

You see all the civil war chuds online harping about liberals/the left and assuming a modern civil war would be an US vs THEM cake walk but the reality would be more like Bagdad when things were really bad with many different groups, often fighting each other and lots of bystanders getting killed. All these Right Wingers who want it so bad now with think their lives sucks and they’ll all lose family members to the violence.

Technically the Freikorps would be more akin to groups like the Proudboys or Oathkeeprs. The analogy for ICE/Homeland Security agents/Federalized National Guard would be Gestapo.

TikTok is owned by the Chinese and they have strong anti-protest biases.

In a strictly hypothetical situation, you left out “slicing the pie”

Specifically in authoritarian or totalitarian regimes since Senior officers both have a lot to lose financially if the regime falls and typically are as guilty as the people they serve.

Any reason he could give is fabricated. Also, Portland in particular is more than just the usual “collapsing the Republic into a fascist dictatorship” thing he has going on. He’s still butthurt about Portland from 2020.

Yeah, but the news and a variety of websites go out of their way to either pretend there are no protests in Portland or to mischaracterize them. You need a back up plan for getting news to the people if you want the optics to reflect the truth.

The only “pushback” from the Mayor or Governor that I’ll respect is if Police arrest National Guardsmen who break the law (it’s inevitable they’ll break the law). Otherwise, they’re cowards at best and complicit at worse.

I see this online about Seattle all the time. (Plus hyperbole about the fent/homeless prob) People will be ranting about how awful Seattle is and how you can’t go anywhere near it and I’m like “Really, I was there last month and had a lovely afternoon”

You left out the General Strike response

I hope Portland gives any illegally deployed military units in their city hell.

I really hope someone that doesn’t live in the US, Russia, or China start a TikTok rival for people to switch to.

There are a huge number of country bumpkins that saw Portland on the TV during 2020 and assumed/were mislead into believing the whole city burned down and it’s just a smoldering wasteland now. The actual problems were in a relatively small area downtown; most of Portland was unaffected.