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    If they sent the entier national guard to cities larger than 100,000 people, there would be ~1,200 troops per city. The conventional wisdom I have heard places the number of occupying troops to population required to suppress an insurgency at something like 20-25 troops per 1000 people. We’re at about half that number in the smallest cities larger than 100,000 in this hypothetical scenario. By those numbers, it would take the entier half national guard to secure NYC.

    For comparison, Britain sent ~3,000 soldiers to Boston in 1768, which, at the time, had a population of about 16,000, and that basically only succeeded in turning the whole city into a preasure cooker.

    This threat is a paper tiger even if we ignore the impossibility of the logistics.

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      I think regular old US prison should be fine.

      Actually, no, I don’t want my tax money going to his room and board for nothing. Give him a life of community service, serving in soup kitchens or raking the forests or whatever.

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    If one kid getting beat up in DC warrants martial law, surely there’s a small town in Utah that’s next.

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    Do it. There aren’t enough troops to control the entire population at the same time. Once people realize that they have the numbers and the capability, they will acquire the will.

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      You can tell by the strong resistance now?

      Cut that dude’s leg off and he’ll be able to run faster without carrying all that extra weight.

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    My least fucking favorite game to play… “Imagine a Democrat said this.”

    I get that some actual fascists revel in the hypocrisy, but the vast majority of MAGAs would deny that there is any hypocrisy at all and truly believe it.

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        Yeah. Thiel is openly gay and wants to be king of the Christian white nationalists. And he picked Vance not understanding that Vance’s wife and kids were a problem.

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          And yet last summer Maga was walking around proudly carrying cups of “Vance cum” so maybe you have just too much respect for their awareness and integrity?

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    What’s a Trump Troop? Is it different from an American branch of anything? It’s not his army, or navy, or air force, or national guard, or FBI, or CIA. They are America’s. Have you all forgotten so quickly? This is atrocious. So this is how democracy dies, complacency.