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Troops Deployed to LA Have Done Precisely One Thing, Pentagon Says (theintercept.com)

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The nearly 5,000 soldiers in Los Angeles detained one man, briefly. Was that worth $134 million and a constitutional crisis?

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

The nearly 5,000 soldiers in Los Angeles detained one man, briefly. Was that worth $134 million and a constitutional crisis?

Yes.

Because it sets a precedence. Trump's MO has been to try more and more insane shit until the bar for what's normal shifts so far that people get desensitized and start thinking all of this is fine.

It's also shown that the systems that are supposed to be in place to stop things like this don't actually work. The first time someone in the government actually tried to defy those systems, they all either failed to kick in to begin with or were easily shut down or bypassed. Which is music to fascist ears.

All of this has been a massive success for Trump, Musk, and fascism in general. Meanwhile even mainstream anti-Trump media has been burying their head in the sand pretending that Trump is incompetent and has not done anything meaningful toward fascism, when in reality he's been getting everything he wants. That should be terrifying to everyone else yet it really seems that most people in the US, even those against Trump, just aren't getting it and are just trying to wait out the four years as if he'll actually step down then.