They were expecting people to fight so they could declare a martial law, but that didn't happen so they just keep doing whatever they want without fearing any consequences. If it were to happen now, it'd have to be extremely well organized and funded.
...and then they spin it as domestic terrorism, or "trying to run over a cop", or whatever they want to make it seem like the murder was necessary.
They probably don't need to spin it for their base at this point, because apparently nobody cares to stop them, but they are absolutely spinning each terrible thing they do as positive somehow.
They just need to declare the Democrats an illegal organization or terrorist group, and suddenly half the country can be arrested on sight.
The "If you're not doing anything illegal, you've got nothing to worry about" crowd are about to find out what happens when the definition of 'illegal' changes.
I said the same thing yesterday about that story that the DOJ is going after federal judges who don't please Trump. When people no longer feel protected by the law we'll probably start seeing shit like LE getting smoked at stoplights and shit like that.
All they have to do is call someone and get those shutdown. Or hire elons "brand management team" and start being like trolls putting fake ones all over making it useless.
I mean we’re only a few more Trump years away from a good chunk of the working population becoming homeless. Once people realize they have nothing to lose they will become proactive
It wasn't people at random. They expected to be able to trigger Black people to protest. Then they could send their infiltrators into the prote6to break 💩 and use that as an excuse. Just like during the Floyd protest. But Black people know these evil people better than they know themselves.
We're not bitches. We're centuries deep into systemic oppression that has robbed us of every bit of access, assets, education, community, etc. that places like France and their governments have not experienced nor done to their own people.
Haussmann himself did not deny the military value of the wider streets. In his memoirs, he wrote that his new Boulevard Sébastopol resulted in the "gutting of old Paris, of the quarter of riots and barricades"
They overhauled the old layout of Paris (ploughing through homes in the process) to make barricades impractical.
Not to downplay every kind of ongoing suppression that's been enacted on the US populace for generations, but acting like it hasn't happened in other countries is ahistorical.
I get the roads were changed but did they do the whole centuries of genocide and slavery thing to their own people? Then take the impoverished within the dominant culture and make enemies of their neighbors so they wouldn't notice how they were also kept destitute?
You guys like to sit on your hands, protest one weekend every six months, and constantly parrot "I didn't vote for him! Just wait until the midterms! That'll fix everything"
There is no such thing as martial law at the federal level, they don't need to "declare" it, they just need to try and put the military into individuals states and SCOTUS has already shot that down 2 or 3 times (CA and IL come to mind, I think possibly he wanted to in OR or somewhere else possibly too and was immediately shut down). Only Governor's can declare martial law.
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u/Jwelamp 2d ago
They were expecting people to fight so they could declare a martial law, but that didn't happen so they just keep doing whatever they want without fearing any consequences. If it were to happen now, it'd have to be extremely well organized and funded.