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That was way more firm of a denial than I expected from the speech. Absolutely incredible.
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People getting salty about names are stupid as hell but... Jesus Christ, that quote makes it sound like we're in the middle ages. C'mon, man. I'm a patriotic guy but even I wouldn't call them "Magnificent and Fabled Military Installations".
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I was surprised to learn that some of our most important and storied bases are named after Confederates. He's being really grandiose, but I can kinda see what he means. The 3 you might know are Fort Bragg, Fort Benning, and Fort Hood.
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might as well go all the way and turn him into a cute animu girl, will probably get even more young votes this way.
you're looking for easy votes from shaniqua?
just have everyone do service, civil or military, but everyone - including women. we're a progressive egalitarian society after all. if only for the chance some life-lessons get instilled, having to clean up shit or literally wipe asses for a year works wonders.
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Reading that last page makes me happy that our pro-Trump cultic groupthink is truly working as our godlike and heavenly leader Donald John Trump Senior intended.
Nothing would have been wrong with a controlled take-down if the guy that was shoved was actually "pliable" enough for such an option. Considering this guy's apparent history of shit-stirring, this likely wasn't the case, and in the job of riot control, it's extremely important to not waste time. The shove did the job quicker and with more time saved to control the riot. If he got injured in the process, it may have been a bad thing, but shit happens sometimes.
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All of them will be renamed next time a D gets in. Horrible how they have a long list of historical sites they want erased, like fucking Muslims. Won't be long til Gettysburg gets its turn at the guillotine.
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Washington DC is named after a slaveowner yet I'm wondering why they haven't changed its name to Obama City already?
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That one is just a conspiracy theory. Other people have pointed out what he basically just double-bagged: he was wearing two masks on top of one another. You could hear his head hitting the pavement: only a stuntman would be able to take that fall so squarely without flinching, and even those only do it with protection.
Besides, the old man was being treated by EMTs coming in just behind the police. He wouldn't be taken to the hospital if he had just been faking it.
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If Obamagate goes through, it would be laughable.
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Do the feds not have to authorize the military stuff getting rehomed? If not I learned something today
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CNN is doing a whole report on Trump’s tweet and why it means he hates the common man or something. It’s like clockwork
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As much as he came off as an angry tard, Hollywood Hulk Hogan does make good points every so often.
Case in point
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They sell it off under a special auction program, but they don't have to approve it really. A civilian could buy a lot of that stuff easy if he had a tax stamp and a background check (or neither, if it's for a demilitarized MRAP).
The auction is a sort of federal equipment laundering program where cops can get first pick of cheap milsurp to justify buying brand new stuff for the DOD. Ultimately most of it would be sold to civilians or destroyed anyway under other equipment laundering programs.
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Err...what is the point, exactly? That my obvious joke made me look like an "angry tarr"?
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I still can't get over how dumb this is. I'm sure they've never even considered the cost and coordination involved. To change the name of the base you need to change and/or pay for changing:
- The signage on base.
- The road signage around and going to base.
- Insignia and patches for the base and tenant commands.
- Directories, both print and electronic.
- Paper charts and maps.
- Callsign books.
- PLAs, command websites and email addresses.
I'm sure there's more stuff I'm missing.
And to do that for how many military bases? Talk about fraud, waste and abuse.
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Against my better judgment, I'll bite.
Yes, if you're talking about the 1033 program then as far as I understand the feds do have to authorize military material being donated to/purchased by police departments and other non-military government organizations. However, I don't think the feds have jurisdiction over it once material is already in the hands of the police. If they did, Obama would have taken it all back in 2015. And as it happens, billions of dollars in "military equipment" (including a lot of non-combat material) were already transferred from the DoD to police departments even before Trump came into office. Rifles and armor can last a very long time in storage.
That all doesn't really matter, though. Your original issue with it was:
Now, I'll readily admit I don't know whether demilitarizing the police was part of Trump's political platform in 2016. Believe it or not, I didn't vote for the man so I didn't follow his promises. I can't find anything on it after a quick Google search, though, and it doesn't sound like the type of thing he'd make any promises about considering the rest of his platform. I would be surprised if he hadn't been all about big displays of force by the police.
In the end... this has nothing to do with police militarization. Most of the police actions (and abuses of force) we're seeing footage of are being performed by cops in standard riot gear, including batons, pepper spray and tear gas. Stuff that you'd see in the armories of any well-funded PD in any large American city, not military equipment. Now, if you want to talk about authoritarian local governments deploying heavily-armed police officers with aggressive mandates like there's a clearance sale on those things, then we can chat about that.
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That's a small price to pay to stop the murder of 6 million innocent POC every year. Those Confederate names are causing irreparable harm to the communities and nation as a whole. Shut yo colonizer excusing, cracka ass up. #BLM
That's a small price to pay to stop the murder of 6 million innocent POC every year. Those Confederate names are causing irreparable harm to the communities and nation as a whole. Shut yo colonizer excusing, cracka ass up. #BLM
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With every passing day, the Democrats are convincing me that if they get into office again, they'll destroy America. I don't need any Q-Anon conspira-tardery to convince me that a vote for (D) is a vote for burning cities and a Stasi ready to gulag anyone who uses a mild ethnic slur on Twitter.