Saw this today at my local library, they were having a fun little propaganda session. Wish there was a way to stop this shit.
I was able to pickup the sixth Wheel of Time book, which I guess was nice.
Let the lord of chaos reign.
Wheel of Time enjoyer
Really gunning for that most lethal army in the world title
I think I had this happen as part of Cub Scouts when I was in grade school…I would’ve been 5(?), and this was in the late 90’s
Been going on for a long time
I wanted to try joining the Cub Scouts in first(?) grade because a friend did and was talking about it, and my mom took me to a meeting thing and noped out after like 10 minutes and said it was like a little Hitler Youth rally and wouldn’t let me join lmao
I guess the scout leader was some kid’s thumb head cop exmilitary dad and he was known from the PTA as being a huge chud
Shout out to mom for dodging that bullet for me
Think mine also yanked me out for similar reasons lmao
They’re defunding the library to pay for that tank
My hometown did city wide budget cuts, including a comparatively smaller cut to the police budget. In response the police threatened to cut their K9 unit. They started posting pics on their Facebook from all the copaganda events of kids posing with the dogs, with messages like, “Say goodbye to Hunter, were going to miss this good boy!”.
Copaganda starting young
Reminds me of the firetrucks coming to my elementary to show the kids and teach fire safety but…different
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Amerikkka wants to be the sparta of the modern day.
I don’t know much about Sparta. Military rule, mandatory service, maybe some killing of their less able young?
An enslaved lower class who vastly outnumbered the spartans, and who were killed en masse by the spartans “for fun”.
And more fittingly, it’s only a matter of time until burgerland attacks China basically out of envy, if not for their own affirmation they’re the biggest fish in the pond.
Sounds about white
Were the Spartans really gay?
I feel like they either killed gay people or were super gay. Something gay related was happening.
No, I won’t read a book about it.
In the early 2000s we had a sorta job fair thing of people coming in and explaining what they did as a job most of them brought in something cool for the kids to look at and play with or whatever. Of course the Sheriff’s department was there and they had their big fuck you MRAP and a BARRET 50 Cal that they let us look down the scope of. This was in one of the poorest and predominantly black counties in the state.
You may think this makes it feel like you live under military occupation.
Yes!
i remember getting fingerprinted as a kid by the local police, lol
Town of probably like what 10k people and it has an IED resistant bomb truck with a machine gun turret you’d see in Afghanistan when the USA occupied it.
150k but yeah I think this is an MRAP, I was trying to find the specific model but no luck so far.
I should’ve asked them for the specs lol
“How big of explosion could this handle, specifically?”
My city of a similar size had an armored truck until a few years ago when it mysteriously went up in flames.
I found WoT to really become a slog around book 8. If you’re feeling that way I’d highly recommend finding some summaries and skipping to wherever Brandon Sanderson picks it up. Most of my friends that have read the series dropped off somewhere around book 7 - 9 so I always want people to know that it’s ok to skip some just to get to the finale.
Also lmao to that pigmobile
Good to know! Yeah Jordan can take a while to get to the point already.
The new Citations Needed ep on police reform is really good, guest talks about how this kind of thing is part of Foucault’s boomerang - that this is a well-established counter-insurgency strategy
