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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 5 points 8 months ago

Yeah but with that 4x budget they get to look like what they think is cool, they get to be openly racist fucks and they get to enact their cruel fantasies!

Money all worth!

[–] dermanus@lemmy.ca 5 points 8 months ago

Oh don't worry, he's not going to pay them.

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

They don't want to help people. They want to surpress people. To those people it hurts to help but they feel pleasure from harm. Those types are everywhere in our society but they have found a common home in maga.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Entirely unsurprising. But invading a blue city is the kind of thing that gives those with the authoritarian mental illness rock-hard erections.

Helping people? Fuck that noise. We want to brandish our penis compensation devices and bust some heads! Time to own the libz!

[–] buttnugget@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Kind of like the new ICE budget. I remember seeing a tweet from some right wing lunatic saying they didn’t care if it costs a trillion dollars, deport every single undocumented immigrant. They’ve always had an endless budget for things like war and terror.

[–] DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

I don't want to be the contrarian but:

Two U.S. officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said it cost about $530 per Guard member, per day to be deployed.

How?! How could sending people that are already on the payroll to a different city cost this much? And you are really going to push such a claim, with the source being "some guys said so" and pretend to be a news organization we should take seriously?

[–] Englishgrinn@lemmy.ca 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

First, I'm going to heavily qualify this statement. Like, a lot. I have never served in any military capacity and I'm repeating something a member of the Canadian military told me, which could easily be wrong for 20 reasons.

National Guardsman are similar to our "reservists" and are not paid when inactive. If additional troops who were already trained but not active, we're then activated, that would account for additional costs.

So yeah, massive grain of salt but you asked and someone gave me a reasonable answer that seemed to fit. I have done no fact checking, though.

[–] DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Thanks for the explanation. My understanding was that in the US, the national guard also had regular troops, not just reservists, but maybe they did call the reservists despite that or I misunderstood/misremembered.

Regardless, I still think an article explicitly about the cost of the deployment giving no information on this is absurd.

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