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 @01:45AM (#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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