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Donald Trump says he is deploying troops to Portland, Oregon (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Imagine being a high-school kid. You got talked into enlisting, sold on the dream of bravely serving your country, traveling the world, fighting terrorism, defending democracy wherever it is endangered... all the stuff they say to sell it. And then you get deployed to... Portland.

Imagine being a veteran in 20 years. "Where did you serve?" "Memphis."

If this weren't a violation of American norms, an abuse of power, an attempt to silence cities and states that push back on the Trump regime, and the precursor to the coming attempt to fully dismantle our democracy as we know it, it would actually be kind of funny.