Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident?

• mechoman444@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Short of sending an M1 Abrams, they’ve thrown everything at us along with the kitchen sink.

  We’re way past Tank Man. Also, they already sent in the tanks. The police have riot vehicles which are typically repurposed military tanks.

  I don’t think you understand how bad it is in the US right now.

  There has never been anything like this in this country since WWII and even then the Japanese labor camps were leaps better than alligator alcatraz.

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  • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Dude… Just no. They have not thrown the kitchen sink at us. Tear gas, unconstitutional arrests, even shooting people in isolated incidents is not even fucking close to how bad it could get. Short of sending an M1 Abrams? How about just unloading full auto rifles into a crowd? How about taking out targets with predator drones? FFS, they only just started deploying LRAD.

    Things can, and very well may, get so, so, SO much worse even before tanks start rolling in the streets.

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    • mechoman444@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This isn’t Iran.

      If they could have done all that by now they would have.

      It would be fairly difficult to convince any military branch or even police force to open fire on its own protesting citizens. There is a reason why we have three branches of government and Congress and a Senate.

      That’s not to say I’m not downplaying it. It’s still really bad out there.

      Ice is the new age Gestapo.

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