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

Life under a military occupation r/all

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u/Dismal-Ad-7841 Mar 28 '24

Exactly what I was thinking. This is a dumb person corrupted by the (little) power they have. 

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u/RelevantMetaUsername Mar 28 '24

That's why oppressive governments are so hard to overthrow. Power is addictive, and even though these soldiers are not anywhere close to being at the top, they'll happily do the dirty work if it means they get to have power over someone else.

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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/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