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Saw this today at my local library, they were having a fun little propaganda session. Wish there was a way to stop this shit.
I was able to pickup the sixth Wheel of Time book, which I guess was nice.
They're defunding the library to pay for that tank
What the fuck. I've never seen such a car in person in Poland. For this to be a police car in front of a fucking library is wild to me. Jesus Christ America.
This isn't what they normally drive. Pig mobiles are typically big SUVs. These are exclusively for use against protestors, not that that makes it okay or anything
You may think this makes it feel like you live under military occupation.
Yes!
Town of probably like what 10k people and it has an IED resistant bomb truck with a machine gun turret you'd see in Afghanistan when the USA occupied it.
150k but yeah I think this is an MRAP, I was trying to find the specific model but no luck so far.
I should’ve asked them for the specs lol
“How big of explosion could this handle, specifically?”
My city of a similar size had an armored truck until a few years ago when it mysteriously went up in flames.
The new Citations Needed ep on police reform is really good, guest talks about how this kind of thing is part of Foucault's boomerang - that this is a well-established counter-insurgency strategy
Copaganda starting young
and motherfuckers say you dont live under fascism already holy shit
Just reminding the populace that they will stop at nothing to “protect and serve”
i remember getting fingerprinted as a kid by the local police, lol
My hometown did city wide budget cuts, including a comparatively smaller cut to the police budget. In response the police threatened to cut their K9 unit. They started posting pics on their Facebook from all the copaganda events of kids posing with the dogs, with messages like, "Say goodbye to Hunter, were going to miss this good boy!".
that's half the reason why i don't have kids, i don't know how i'd normalize the militarization of the police -- joke's on me I guess, now i don't have an excuse!
Edit: I misread your comment, but I'm leaving the advice. Normalizing the militarization of police shouldn't be accepted.
For anyone looking for an answer to how to reach your kids about the world and cut through the propaganda, just talk to your kids. Talk to them like peers (don't talk down to them) and listen to what they have to say. Show them the basic respect adults expect that children rarely get from adults.
If you do this throughout their lives, you won't win every subject, but they'll listen to you and it will facilitate these types of conversations. Don't shy away from difficult and uncomfortable topics. They'll learn. They'll also learn to see these things for themselves if you explicitly teach them and share the books that helped inform you.
Teenagers in particular are at the perfect age to start seeing through the BS. Kids will buy into propaganda constantly, but you can cut through it with them by building a strong relationship of communication.
You'd think they're occupying a library in Fallujah by looking at this with no context
But there's no sepia filter, must be a white country.
I think I had this happen as part of Cub Scouts when I was in grade school...I would've been 5(?), and this was in the late 90's
Been going on for a long time 
I wanted to try joining the Cub Scouts in first(?) grade because a friend did and was talking about it, and my mom took me to a meeting thing and noped out after like 10 minutes and said it was like a little Hitler Youth rally and wouldn't let me join lmao
I guess the scout leader was some kid's thumb head cop exmilitary dad and he was known from the PTA as being a huge chud
Shout out to mom for dodging that bullet for me
Think mine also yanked me out for similar reasons lmao
Really gunning for that most lethal army in the world title
Literal war vehicles in cozy looking suburbs
Librarians should get an AT4 under their desk for this kind of thing
Lords of Chaos, WoT book six or the a name of a special pig task force?
Lmao, the chief and sheriff are Forsaken Dreadlords and the pigs are all Trollocs
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Amerikkka wants to be the sparta of the modern day.
I don’t know much about Sparta. Military rule, mandatory service, maybe some killing of their less able young?
An enslaved lower class who vastly outnumbered the spartans, and who were killed en masse by the spartans "for fun".
Sounds about white
And more fittingly, it’s only a matter of time until burgerland attacks China basically out of envy, if not for their own affirmation they’re the biggest fish in the pond.
Were the Spartans really gay?
I feel like they either killed gay people or were super gay. Something gay related was happening.
No, I won't read a book about it.
I wonder if any of the parents just don’t have the heart to break it to their 6 year old that we live in a dystopian hellscape
Reminds me of the firetrucks coming to my elementary to show the kids and teach fire safety but....different
I found WoT to really become a slog around book 8. If you’re feeling that way I’d highly recommend finding some summaries and skipping to wherever Brandon Sanderson picks it up. Most of my friends that have read the series dropped off somewhere around book 7 - 9 so I always want people to know that it’s ok to skip some just to get to the finale.
Also lmao to that pigmobile
Good to know! Yeah Jordan can take a while to get to the point already.
Let the lord of chaos reign.
Wheel of Time enjoyer 
In the early 2000s we had a sorta job fair thing of people coming in and explaining what they did as a job most of them brought in something cool for the kids to look at and play with or whatever. Of course the Sheriff's department was there and they had their big fuck you MRAP and a BARRET 50 Cal that they let us look down the scope of. This was in one of the poorest and predominantly black counties in the state.