Depends on who you talk to. A lot of Republican talking heads seem to think the plan is elimination.

Kristi Noem literally suggested a gameshow where the winner got citizenship.

Specifically, it’s fairly obviously patterned after Mussolini, who was ALWAYS portrayed this way and is one of Trump’s “inspirations”.

Law enforcement does not have to do anything. A person could walk up to you in front of a police officer and stab you to death in full view of a crowd of people, and the cop is under no legal obligation to stop them.

No no, this is what they wanted.. They want a society where you can see some rando with a pistol, a vest and a mask and go “yes officer”, because the cruelty and fear is the point.

Also, unless you’ve got a way to pay rent or a house you own, good luck getting on housing assistance. Most cities have a waiting list months or years long - I know last time I had to look into it for myself, it was something like 15 months of waiting for a potential open slot anywhere in the city.

I switched to Tidal and love it.

Also, they specifically learned during Iraq 2 to target poor kids. Turns out it’s easy to get them to sign on if you tell them “hey, you don’t need to have finished HS, and when you get out, you’ll have your college paid for and job prospects lining up for you if you don’t wanna do college” - something a lot of these kids wouldn’t have otherwise.

While I don’t fully disagree, dishonorable discharge is already effectively a sentence to starve to death on the streets. It makes it incredibly tough to get a job in the States, if not impossible in a lot of places. With the death of a thousand cuts to the welfare system and the fact that minorities and poor whites are overwhelmingly represented in the military, your choice narrows down to “either deploy or get beaten to death by cops in 5 years.”

And Tennessee, Florida, and Wisconsin I believe.

A few years? Optimistic, are we?

There was a big document leak just the other day from ICE that showed that 2/3 of the people they arrest or something like that have no criminal records.

The worst part is they’re trying to find ways to strip naturalized citizenship. Trump was wanting to do that on his first term and didn’t have the numbers for it.

This is how Russia works too, and a lot of other dictatorships. If you buy your way in, you too can have a commissioned rank, and the respect, security, and stipend it comes with.

I’m getting the vibe that this is going to be a prelude to privatization.

And a British journo got a rubber round put through his leg in a similar thing, from what I understand.

A lot of people put us there during Reagan, Bush or Bush II.

Pretty much this. Multiple generations of war TV have pointed this out. MASH has an episode about it for chrissakes.

Arguably, the list alone, plus the customized police vehicle and police outfit, would be enough premeditation.

I think he’ll try bigger and simply try to nationalize or end licensing for the big 4.

It really is how the dotcomites and techbros see the world. They built everything for a song (and having the luck to be born with access to the materials to build their empires), so obviously the entire world that’s NOT a corporate entity should be handed to them for free.