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> I can understand having the military in the streets, when the news is full of people waving foreign flags while torching vehicles in the streets.

Yes but the news (in the US) is a fully for profit organizations most of which are owned by the right-wing folks. (i.e. Much of the newspapers, CNN, Fox News are run by boards that are right-leaning)

They are intentionally pushing a narrative that the family I have in the area believes is simply a very small number of incidents that are nowhere near as bad as what is presented.

> This does not look like the military being deployed on Americans, rather it looks like the military being deployed on rioters. Whether those rioters are Americans or illegal immigrants really doesn't matter for the purposes of reestablishing order.

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/poss...

I suggest you stop looking at this through the lens of an Israeli and do some research on the US system of laws :)

Deploying the military "on rioters" and whether they are "Americans or illegals" is actually quite important. Using the military as a police force is illegal and the only real open legal question is if using it against "invaders" who are not here legally is technically allowed.

You are acting like these people are Hamas, when in reality, they are nowhere close to even 5% as dangerous.

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susiecambria|8 months ago

And the media and federal government citing the waving of foreign flags is another distraction.

As Americans, and people living in the USA, we are allowed to do this. It's a Constitutional protection.

Again, all of this is a distraction from what the prez is doing.

johnQdeveloper|8 months ago

Correct. But for some reason "flags" and "not white/christian/jewish" somehow makes them the OTHER TRIBE and therefore the laws don't matter to conservatives.

I don't feel particularly safe in the US with the government making lists of people like me based on the medication we are taking.

https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2025-05-02/...

Its not new, but the centralization of these datasets isn't making me feel like anything other than a target.