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[–] Clippy@hexbear.net 21 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

immediately jumped to think of this meme

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 18 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Ok so they're going to do the whole "we tried to be reasonable, we tried to de-escalate" routine first and then they're going to escalate to mass crackdowns and violent military occupation to enforce a stop the protests.

This is portfolio building for a plan that's already in place. The plan is to make the protests look bad when it escalates despite their attempts at being "reasonable" and "nice".

If actual protestors won't escalate they'll use their own double agents among the protestors.

[–] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 20 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

American troops hand out coffee and doughnuts to iraqi civilians in an attempt to win hearts and minds, 2007, colourised

[–] Homer_Simpson@hexbear.net 55 points 20 hours ago

mmmm copaganda

[–] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 48 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

i wonder how long it will be before ice call the bluff and murder someone in sight of a guardsman

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 30 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

bangbangbangbang... bangbang bbaanngg

Two National Guardsmen respond.

"Oh, shit. Geez - they sure pumped a lotta bullets into that woman. What do we do???"

"I dunno. Hand out more donuts?"

"At the very end - how many shots was that? Two?"

"Three? Maybe four? We gotta wait for the instant replay."

"The what?"

"The videos. The videos, dummy."

[–] THEPH0NECOMPANY@hexbear.net 22 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

This is actually the better alternative where their bootlicking instincts don't take over and they instantly light up whoever ICE is shooting

[–] Lussy@hexbear.net 10 points 17 hours ago

Yeah, they’re going to start blasting protesters at some point, might as well lube them up with coffee and donuts.

[–] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 34 points 19 hours ago

pizza-dance Woo! Obfuscation of state-sanctioned murder of civilians pizza party!

no-i-in-pezza

[–] DogThatWentGorp@hexbear.net 16 points 17 hours ago

This feels like the first frame of a "how it started vs how it's going" that's going to do huge numbers in about a week.

[–] Rey_McSriff@hexbear.net 53 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

ICE may shoot me dead but at least I'll die with a National Guard donut in my hand,

[–] Hatandwatch@hexbear.net 14 points 17 hours ago

That feeling when vegan and no last meal sadness

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 49 points 21 hours ago

Please don't ask us what we were doing during the summer of 2020.

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 34 points 20 hours ago

If the national guard handed me coffee and a donut, I would take it as explicit confirmation that they weren't gonna help me against ICE

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 44 points 21 hours ago
[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 23 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I mean yeah, they aren't federalized. This is exactly the thing that Waltz would have them do in an attempt to de-escelate.

[–] Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net 22 points 19 hours ago

Yeah this is actually an interesting development.

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 30 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

cool now the more competent fascists have arrived

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 14 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

hardly would call the national guard more competent

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 6 points 15 hours ago

they're doing basic counterinsurgency that ice/cbp haven't bothered to do. the bar is extremely low

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 36 points 21 hours ago

A quip at r/Military/

Hearts and minds.

[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 5 points 14 hours ago

Literally I'll give you a doughnut to fuck off

The worst part is libs will fall for this sappy horseshit, as if any of those treats came out of the pockets of these weekend warriors

[–] Carcharodonna@hexbear.net 28 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

Maybe I'm paranoid, but this seems like an opportunity for someone to do a false flag attack that would justify full military occupation. Again, maybe I'm paranoid.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 37 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

If Trump and his cronies were competent - they would have already done a false flag.

[–] eldoom@lemmy.ml 23 points 20 hours ago

I think they may have already tried several times just that they're so far detached from reality that they false flagged things nobody really cares about. Like Charlie Kirk, faking that assassination attempt on trump, I think there was a xitter hack they tried to make a hullabaloo about...

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 17 points 20 hours ago

It's pan o plomo. There isn't a need for a false flag to justify it if liberals see the occupation force as their friends.

[–] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 10 points 19 hours ago

Some woke vet with ptsd will naturally do it. Best of luck to them.

[–] hollowmines@hexbear.net 11 points 20 hours ago

with enough patience they won't need to manufacture anything (though they still might)

[–] JohnBrownsBawdy@hexbear.net 9 points 16 hours ago

I won’t eat your microchips you have to inject me with them.

[–] Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Tell them to defect and join the revolution.

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 3 points 18 hours ago

Ask if you can have their NODs.

[–] Meltyheartlove@hexbear.net 7 points 16 hours ago

This will probably work on libs

[–] HarryLime@hexbear.net 17 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 20 hours ago

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