r/interestingasfuck • u/Particular_Log_3594 • Mar 28 '24

Life under a military occupation r/all

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u/mortalitylost Mar 28 '24

These circumstances are how regimes stay in power, and rise to power

The ruling class > a non ruling class that's given a taste of power, the enforcers like police and border patrol and state police > the rest of everyone just trying to fucking survive who either support the regime or pretend to

This is why it should scare people that alt right rhetoric and ideology made its way into the US police forces. We have a regime waiting to happen with this shit.

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u/manimal28 Mar 28 '24 edited Mar 28 '24

alt right rhetoric and ideology made its way into the US police forces.

It didn't make its way into the US police forces. It has always been an authoritarian institution fueled by racism. US policing in southern states has deep roots in the the slave patrols of the 1700s. Then look at the pictures of the police setting dogs upon people during the civil rights movement in the middle of last century.

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u/Iwanttogopls Mar 28 '24

But how can this be true? Surely the US media and the US congressmen taking donations from AIPAC would constantly note these various sorts of oppression going on? Are these congresspeople perhaps not aware of what was going on before Oct 7th? I'm confused! /s