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[+] 32 points 1 year ago (11 children)
  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    And they basically did nothing but stand around. I think they arrested one guy? And that one guy was most likely being an asshole and pushed his luck past the brink. Also, there was only 700 of them. You couldn't control my little hick town with 700 soldiers. LOL, they'd be hilariously outgunned by the rednecks and retired military. In any case, now they're gone.

    Yes, it was an egregiously corrupt use of the military, but that's not even close to using weapons of war on an American city.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Remind me again how many Marines opened fire on civilians.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    No Marine obeyed an illegal order, and that's the whole point of this thread.

    They were used in a very narrow scope as defined by law, protecting specific government buildings.

    It was Trump being a bully and grandstanding, but other than the optics we're talking about, it was really a lame event.

    The vast majority of the 2k Marines did what Marines always do when they don't have specific orders on a shit deployment, the sat around or caught up on rack time.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Marines opening fire? I think only during the Rodney King riots.

    Any military branches opening fire? The Kent State Shooting and The Bonus Army Incident.

    Any military branches just bombing the shit out of civilians on US soil? The Battle of Blair Mountain and The Philadelphia MOVE Bombing

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