Military Helicopters Descend on Washington in Bizarre Low-Altitude Show of Force

Re:Military Helicopters Descend on Washington in Bizarre Low... by whymauri on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @01:39AM (#23387851)

I don't understand this. The warning signs of the current administration's fascist-adjacent policies have been here for four years. Please do not pretend that it's now that Americans cannot heed those signs due to protests, especially when the protests are partially in response to the current administration.

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Re:Military Helicopters Descend on Washington in Bizarre Low... by mydongle on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @02:11AM (#23388067)

Destroying businesses and disrupting the lives of innocent people is not how you convince them to go along with whatever you want. Is that how they will proceed from now on whenever they need something from the people? What a bunch of garbage.

The vast majority of people in those cities would've already supported them. And they bite that hand. Often hands just as brown/black as theirs...they don't care, because what they seek is power, not justice.

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Re:Military Helicopters Descend on Washington in Bizarre Low... by MattGaiser on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @01:43AM (#23387879)

More that many Americans will now see fascism as providing a certain method of protection. Plenty of authoritarians are popularly elected based on some threat.

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Re:Military Helicopters Descend on Washington in Bizarre Low... by whymauri on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @01:45AM (#23387893)

I find this to be a much more compelling commentary and concern than the one I replied to. If what you mention does happen, it will be legitimately frightening.

At least when authoritarianism hit my home country (Venezuela), we could leave.

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Re:Military Helicopters Descend on Washington in Bizarre Low... by MattGaiser on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @01:53AM (#23387943)

If we go back to the Kent State shooting, Gallup found that 58% blamed the students and 11% blamed the National Guard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings#Aftermath...

I don't see it as a crazy idea that shooting some protestors would be popular.

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Re:Military Helicopters Descend on Washington in Bizarre Low... by whymauri on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @01:56AM (#23387970)

I've told friends that I have a sinking feeling a Tiananmen Square-like event might happen soon in the US. I predict that there will be people online arguing the semantics of what constitutes a "massacre" or a "tragedy."

I hope we never get to that.

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Re:Military Helicopters Descend on Washington in Bizarre Low... by NonEUCitizen on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @02:25AM (#23388174)

Did you see the videos of police SUVs driving through the people? The tank in Tiananmen Square actually stopped.

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Re:Military Helicopters Descend on Washington in Bizarre Low... by rvschuilenburg on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @03:29AM (#23388575)

That was just one tank though. You can't really compare what happened in Tiananmen Square to what's happened in the US.

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Re:Military Helicopters Descend on Washington in Bizarre Low... by baddox on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @01:51AM (#23387927)

Well, yeah. Fascism tends to be popular, even though it’s really bad and needs to be resisted.

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