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Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests by dylan604 on Monday June 09, 2025 @11:32PM (#44232182)
Their job is to be deployed internationally and specifically not to be deployed domestically. That's why it's so appalling.
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Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests by rixed on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @12:25AM (#44232499)
It's also appealing each time they are deployed internationally, but to "others".
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Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @02:09AM (#44233160)
Yes. The American President is supposed to look out for Americans. First. That's what Trump was elected to do. Not trash out economy at the global and local levels.
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Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests by jaoane on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @03:39AM (#44233800)
Looking out for Americans is precisely what he's doing by deporting illegals. Of course people who are in a position of wealth are not affected by their existence so they think there’s no issue.
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Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @03:59AM (#44233926)
> Looking out for Americans is precisely what he's doing by deporting illegals

Nothing about deporting illegal immigrants requires deploying the Marines.

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Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests by xdennis on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @06:00AM (#44234788)
They're deployed because of the riots, not illegal immigration.
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Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @04:34PM (#44241177)
> They're deployed because of the riots, not illegal immigration

The riots got worse after they were deployed. Obviously. They're being deployed because we have a drunk for SecDef, a basket case in Stephen Miller and flagging illegal-immigrant arrest numbers that are making Homan look incompetent. So we get theatrics. Sort of like the tariffs.

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Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests by mindslight on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @04:12AM (#44234001)
The Republican party has been stealing the surplus wealth from offshoring for decades with their fake refrain of "fiscal responsibility", and now that our country's industrial base has been hollowed out and the jig is up you fall right for their ploy to blame a scapegoat instead.
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Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests by watwut on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @04:08AM (#44233981)
Trump is doing exactly what his voters wanted. They wanted exactly these economic policies, exactly these anti-democratic policies, exactly these anti-science policies, exactly this harm to everyone who is being harmed except themselves.

It is not just Trump. he represents what conservatives, republicans and their voters are. And this is enabled by consistent pretension that Trump is an secretly opposed aberration. No, he is admired both publicly and secretly.

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Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests by righthand on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @02:27PM (#44239784)
100% people begged Republican voters to review what Trump was cooking with Project 2025. It’s time for dinner.
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Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests by xdennis on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @05:59AM (#44234771)
No.

> The Insurrection Act of 1807 [...] empowers the president [...] to nationally deploy the U.S. military [...] in specific circumstances, such as the suppression of civil disorder [...]

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurrection_Act_of_1807

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Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests by ImJamal on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @04:31PM (#44251483)
The Insurrection Act of 1807 allows the president to deploy troops within the US to squash riots and other things.
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