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If the media keeps reporting about troops patrolling streets, cracking down on protesters, and marching around with guns drawn; but when someone actually goes looking for them they can't fucking find them anywhere, then YES. At a certain point, you have to conclude it DOESN'T actually exist, and is just a distraction from shit like Epstein.
At least, you can make that conclusion if you have more than a single fucking brain cell. If you don't, you instead go "Well, the media says it's happening so it MUST be true. They NEVER lie or misrepresent reality! Anyone saying otherwise must be a fascist!"
Where are the troops? Are they in DC? WHERE?! Because people actually going there, in person, looking for them, CANT FUCKING FIND THEM! Doesn't that at least tell you something in the narrative must be off?!
Bruh. You're mad. Like, really mad. Makes me think you aren't thinking clearly. Even if it's "just a photo op" there are livestreams and plenty of photos of National Guard troops in DC. I found some from 2 days ago, and 2 weeks ago with a quick search.
Yes, this is also a distraction like most everything else has been. No, the sensationalist news media is not fully trustworthy. Yes, there are armed National Guard troops in Washington DC. No, having some people say they haven't seen guards does not disprove their existence.
My question to you is, what makes you deny their existance so hard? Do you honestly believe publicity stunts don't have an impact even as just stunts?
Ok, so remember during the George Floyd protests how gullible idiots on the right were convinced by their media that cities like Portland and Seattle were being burned to the ground? Remember how right wing outlets quickly ran out of real examples to keep their narrative going and resorted to showing things like a single burning trashcan, images from completely different protests, or just straight-up stock images of civil unrest?
Were places burned down? Yea, like a couple small buildings. Was that bad? Yes, absolutely. Did that warrant non-stop news coverage for months declaring the cities had fallen into anarchy and it was every man for himself? Of course not, and that's so far off the mark that it's safe to call out as complete BS. But try telling that to one of those right wing idiots and it's like their brains would break, they wouldn't even acknowledge that maybe their info was bad, or they were being manipulated into believing a certain narrative. They'd just immediately dismiss you as a liberal removed and continue to believe the horseshit they were fed.
Here, we have a parallel. Are there troops? I'm sure there's a handful. Is that bad? Yes, absolutely. Are they literally goose-stepping across the National Mall, shooting/arresting any sign of protest? Are tanks rolling down the streets of DC. Do you even SEE any of them if you were to go walk around the city? No, and that's so far off the mark from the narrative that it's safe to call it out as complete BS. I'm already seeing news sites use stock images because they can't get real shots that uphold the narrative their trying to spin.
I'm mad because people are fucking idiots who desperately want to believe that fascism has come full force. That protesting or stepping out of line will have you face harsh, immediate consequences. It's a publicity stunt designed to make Trump seem all powerful and to make people afraid to stand up, and boy are people buying it hook-line-and-sinker. In reality he DOESNT have as much power as they are trying to show, and it is absolutely still safe to stand up against him and protest. But try pointing out to left wing idiots that they're being manipulated and you're dismissed as a fascist troll.
The only difference between the 2020 protests and now is that I actually AM a liberal removed, so at least they got the insult right.
There's not much fashier than comparing anti-racist protests to a fascist military occupation. Very lib indeed.
You mean the overreaction the right had to anti-racist protests, which is what I was clearly talking about?
So you think they were correct then? You agree with the right wing dumbasses who thought the overwhelmingly peaceful protests in 2020 were actually violent teardowns of entire cities?
Why do you agree with MAGA? Why are you simping for them so hard?
Or maybe you just completely misunderstood my entire comment and went off gut instinct instead of using your fucking brain?
I'm no longer going to engage with trolls trying to excuse military deployments on US soil. Do the world a favor and fuck off into obscurity.
Calling out a distraction =/ excusing military deployments. How about you go drive a railroad spike through your head? You might be a little less of a fucking idiot if you used that instead of whatever the fuck you're using now in the empty cavern that is your brain cavity.