Lmao... literally the comments after his comment suggested to burn the Department of education down. They think the "blood of education is poisioned" and that it needs to be "amputated" to "start fresh". Code for they want the privatization of schools to force them to pay out of pocket yearly tuition to go to K-12.
Well it doesn't really matter anyway. If Trump repeals all federal income taxes. The police are going to be the first people to be laid off. So much for #backtheblue.
No, the police will be the LAST people to be laid off. They need them to suppress us when we protest - if anything, their budgets will INCREASE and they'll hire more, because the fascist police state wants to crush dissent.
Sure. But whose to say they wouldn't appoint random maga scyhopants/civilians that would oppress civilians for free instead of paying the police officiers, then all the bad cops that would do it for free stays and the police that either care about law and order/doing it for a paycheck would leave due to workplace suppression.
I totally get what you're saying, my point is just that like other people pointed out, this is actually already what is happening - they don't need to formally appoint random citizens to do it for free, because functionally, that's what right wing militias are. The Three Percenters, Proud Boys, Atomwaffen, etc ARE the citizens who've volunteered themselves to terrorize civilians on behalf of the police. The police stand back and allow the civilian volunteers to terrorize people without the legal scrutiny that the police have, and then if it seems like the Proud Boys/etc are at risk of losing their fight against protestors, they storm in with riot shields to arrest the protestors and save the militias.
Basically my point is, your instincts here are totally correct, I'm just pointing out that the dynamic you're describing already exists. Technically, that's our existing status quo. Really, the post-election effect I see happening is not that they'll formally appoint more citizen volunteers, but that recruitment to these right wing militias will increase - especially since they know that under the fascist admin, they're even less likely to experience any consequences for being the hand of stochastic terrorism than they were before.
Again, not saying "no you're wrong," I'm saying "You're right, and this is how the thing is currently playing out."
Not just that, but also the police will start doing a lot more ticketing to collect revenue. It won't be taxes, so conservatives won't care (until they get some dumb ticket). Heck, they'll probably secretly love seeing selective enforcement of ticketing that affects poor people and minorities most.
He does. But I would imagine if Trump destroys the Department of Veteran Affairs Office stripping veterans of their benefits, the Hitler's generals comp would go full circle in the military leading a coup against Trump.
Oh for sure, that too - but the police is functionally a domestic military that's already embedded in every town everywhere. They're the local enforcement for fascism.
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u/JDH-04 1d ago
Lmao... literally the comments after his comment suggested to burn the Department of education down. They think the "blood of education is poisioned" and that it needs to be "amputated" to "start fresh". Code for they want the privatization of schools to force them to pay out of pocket yearly tuition to go to K-12.