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5. This is the best and most accurate comment

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Wed Jun 11, 2025, 03:14 PM

Jun 11

6."As a vet, I will say it comes across as totalitarian. There is no reason to use active duty military against your own citizens. There's a great quote from Battlestar Galactica: 'The police and the military have always been separate for a reason. One serves and protects the people, the other fights enemies of the state. When the military does both, the enemies of the state tend to become the people.'"

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American Military Members Are Getting Brutally Honest About Marines Being Deployed To Los Angeles [View all] Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 11 OP

"The comments are overwhelmingly opposed to what Donny boy wants to do" mike_c Jun 11 #1

And sometimes the military pushes back newdeal2 Jun 11 #2

That's good news, and relatively important. Mike 03 Jun 11 #6

I hope that's enough marines to jail people breaking curfew! Torchlight Jun 11 #3

I still feel uneasy seeing all those Marines at Fort Bragg cheering on the Orange Bafoon SunImp Jun 11 #4

Fort Bragg is an Army base Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 11 #9

This is the best and most accurate comment Renew Deal Jun 11 #5

He needs to be thrown out on his ass now. Initech Jun 11 #7

I agree with my fellow vets. n/t VegasVet Jun 11 #8