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Briar Snatch
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@debbiedingell.house.gov care to explain your support of this bill?
January 15, 2026 at 12:41 AM
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ryanlcooper.com
I wrote this almost 11 years ago theweek.com/articles/444...
When heavy military equipment is taken from its original context and placed in the hands of a domestic law-enforcement agency with little training in wartime scenarios, it becomes nothing more than an instrument of intimidation. It simply has no other purpose. Wearing jungle camouflage in an urban setting, pointing guns at civilians, driving around pointlessly in an armored personnel carrier — all of these egregiously violate military best practices. This is playing soldier dress-up to scare the pants off the locals — except the guns are real. Notice also how many of these riot cops have their faces completely covered by gas masks and insect goggles. That is almost never seen in recent wars, because covering the face makes a soldier look less human, which is directly at odds with modern counterinsurgency thinking. But covering the face to dehumanize the enemy is a common feature in first-person shooter games (like Half Life 2 and the Killzone series), where the player often has to slaughter them by the score. Doing it to oneself is, I think, a deliberate effort to broaden the emotional distance between law enforcement and the people who are being forced into submission. It turns out that when you put normal cops into soldier gear, you don't get soldiers. You get paramilitary goons.
January 10, 2026 at 2:14 AM
jeancrones.bsky.social
The Arctic being exposed due to climate change while world powers are vying to extract the most minerals from it hurts my soul. We don’t deserve this planet.
January 6, 2026 at 11:29 PM
jeancrones.bsky.social
So the Illitches’ Olympia Development has already received $400 million in taxpayer funds to build LCA and a neighborhood surrounding it that never came to fruition. Why should taxpayers foot the bill for a renovation of a relatively new arena with billionaire owners?
December 18, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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midnightmasseffect.bsky.social
ignoring christmas is much more satisfying than actively hating it.
December 18, 2025 at 2:02 PM
jeancrones.bsky.social
Red Wings send Kasper, ‘26 2nd to Canucks for Hronek
December 16, 2025 at 7:34 PM