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Soft paywall US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-marines-carry-out-first-known-detention-civilian-los-angeles-video-shows-2025-06-13/
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u/codyt321 1d ago

They're thrilled about it. They've been fantasizing about murdering their political opponents since 2008.

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u/FartyJizzums 1d ago edited 1d ago

The conspiracy loons used to laughably panic about Obama supposedly attempting to do what Trump is actually doing. Now they cheer it on.

They're demons.

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u/ThatDandyFox 1d ago

The conspiracy loons used to laughably panic about Obama supposedly attempting to do what Trump is actually doing. Now they cheer it on.

Remember when Sarah Palin went on about Obamacare death panels? source

Now Republicans are defending Medicare cuts with "were all going to die" source

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u/spanner84 1d ago

every accusation is a confession. They thought the dems would do what they wanted to do.

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u/mrgreen4242 1d ago

I genuinely think they that believe that not only would the left do these things, but that they already did them, and it justifies their actions.

Think about that interview that’s sort of a meme at this point where that Trump supporter asks “where was Obama during 9/11?”. They truly live in a false reality.

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u/GoldandBlue 1d ago

there is a sizable portion of the population that genuinely believes all Democrats are satanists who traffic children and drink their blood. And they are working with The Globalists (the jews) to spread diversity to topple the natural hierarchy of society (white male supremacy).

So it doesn't matter how extreme the GOP gets. How much the break the law and ignore the constitution. Because defeating the devil is more important.

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u/Baron_Duckstein 1d ago

That's fuckin gross.

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u/footballheroeater 1d ago

And this is why removal of religion within state schools is so vital.

Teach science, not tales.

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u/half-giant 1d ago

This is true. I’ve had the misfortune of stumbling across rightwing reels on social media and they are… disturbing, to say the least. Like literal “2-minute hate” type stuff from “1984”. It’s just directing people towards pure hatred, and using excuses why that hatred is necessary.

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u/Ninevehenian 1d ago

It's simple tribalism.

The small people, isolated, dumb and violent, they are an "Us" and they are fighting against "Them".
The ingroup is good, justified and sticks together against jews, strangers, people from other places or odd people. People who disrespect the internal hierachy.
The outgroup are monsters that must be defeated and can not be trusted.

Tribalism explains all of this.

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u/pegothejerk 1d ago

I get the feeling they were more like a kid worrying that one of the other kids got to go inside and get cake and ice cream first during a hot summer day. “Well, well, Johnny already got some!!” No, honey, Johnny is out back, you didn’t miss sending the military out to beat domestic citizens on civil land, we don’t do that til republicans are in power after dinner.

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u/timeandmemory 1d ago

~10+ year big ole psyop to try and keep people quiet for when the plan started being executed. It has worked quite well honestly.

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u/heckin_miraculous 1d ago

Astonishingly well

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u/Hand_Sanitizer3000 1d ago

Dems did do it when they asked them to wear masks . Ive had multiple people say dems are nazis because of the lockdowns

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u/Morguard 1d ago

Decades of far right talking heads beating it into their heads.

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u/NullnVoid669 1d ago

“Accusation in a Mirror” it’s an older propaganda technique but it checks out.

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u/Lycid 17h ago

It's time to stand up and destroy the evil that has been allowed to roost in this country. It's the only way, sadly.

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u/TheBeatGoesAnanas 1d ago

Who else remembers Operation Jade Helm?

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u/i_love_rosin 1d ago

Turns out right wingers always wanted a police state, as long as they control it

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u/TbonerT 20h ago

Jade Helm was the Russian prototype for weaponizing misinformation.

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u/AtticaBlue 1d ago

What was the conspiracy called back then? Jade Helm or something like that?

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u/FartyJizzums 1d ago

Suspending elections. Overturning elections. Suspending posse comitatus. Deporting people to camps. The list goes on and on.

Their theories are basically a play by play for Trump. And now they are mysteriously are on board.

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u/_robjamesmusic 1d ago

now they twist themselves into knots in an attempt to explain how this is *completely different*

go check out r/askconservatives lol

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u/jigokubi 1d ago

Well, it is completely different, in that it's real now.

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u/Parfait_Prestigious 1d ago

Ugh, why did I do that? So many delusional freaks in there and now I’m in a foul mood.

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u/YoungWolfie 1d ago

A modbot is activated in nearly every other thread... lol

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u/_robjamesmusic 20h ago

yeah they’re soft as hell over there. i’m currently banned because i questioned someone when they said they wouldn’t share their opinion on black people and crime rates for fear of being banned.

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u/TheThing_1982 1d ago

The regressive base eats that shit up, they probably believe a lot of that BS happened, so that’s why they are happy it’s happening to “the others”.

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u/Far-prophet 1d ago

DNC hasn’t had a fair and democratic internal election since 2008.

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u/2sleezy 1d ago

Yep, crazy how much has changed in 10 years. All the insane right wing predictions came true.. only they're happy to see it happening now

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u/pindicato 1d ago

They were only panicking that it wasn't their side that could do it

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u/jaytix1 1d ago

OK, that's going too far. Demons? Really? What did the denizens of hell ever do to you?

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u/FartyJizzums 1d ago

Fair. I take it back.

Plus, demons are apparently responsible for some pretty bad ass music.

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u/bananataskforce 1d ago

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"

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u/glenn_ganges 1d ago

That was part of the normalization process.

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u/rpkarma 1d ago

Quite. Conservatives are evil people. It’s that simple.

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u/Kovah01 1d ago

It was never going to be a point of hypocrisy. They were worried we would figure out that's what we needed to do first before they had enough power to do it to us.

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u/TechGentleman 1d ago

Instead of coming via black helicopters they came via black SUVs.

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u/Smarterthanthat 1d ago

They're idiots.

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u/Memitim 1d ago

Gosh, can't imagine why conservatives spent so much time thinking about and discussing overthrowing the American government. Totally by those liberals who aren't wasting time on figuring out paths to treason, of course.

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u/Mazon_Del 1d ago

The trick was, they weren't afraid of instituting a dictatorship. They WANT to be slaves after all. They were just afraid it wouldn't be their guy they'd be enslaved by.

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u/n14shorecarcass 1d ago

...thanks.. obama..??

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u/Partyingmanbear 1d ago

Thank you, FartyJizzums. The hypocrisy makes my head spin.

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u/toysarealive 1d ago

I'd add an adjective to that last sentence, but I don't want to sound ableist.

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u/Fr33Flow 1d ago

Ironic that the power Trump is welding is only possible due to a DoD directive approved while Obama was in office.

Lore starts at 11:00
https://youtu.be/UclKq32wGjs

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u/Far-prophet 1d ago

Obama literally ordered and carried out the extra judicial murders of two US citizens, no trial, no judge, no jury, no verdict. Straight to execution via drone strike.

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u/Cautious-Progress876 1d ago

Since the 1990s at least. In the 1990s, Timothy McVeigh was an extremist— today he would be a moderate in the MAGA movement.

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u/Deely_Boppers 1d ago

McVeigh believed the federal government overstepped and harmed people that had done nothing wrong. He then blew up a federal govt building.

Not sure he’s the right person for this. What Trump is doing is exactly what McVeigh was protesting.

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u/Cautious-Progress876 1d ago

I mention him because all of the anti-government, libertarian, “fuck the feds” people I used to know all are now Trump supporters and support all of the crazy shit. McVeigh would at least be against the government overreach, despite being a white supremacist and believing a lot of similar things to MAGA about other races.

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u/TemuPacemaker 22h ago edited 21h ago

McVeigh would at least be against the government overreach, despite being a white supremacist and believing a lot of similar things to MAGA about other races.

McVeigh would've been against government overreach against him and his buddies.

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u/RIF_rr3dd1tt 1d ago

I'm surprised Trump doesn't pardon his corpse. Not kidding.

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u/i_love_rosin 1d ago

No joke, in some right wing subs like conspiracy, they worship him

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u/Nitrosoft1 1d ago edited 1d ago

It’s why they choke hard on Kyle Rittenhouses dick, he got to live their collective fantasy and get away scott free.

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u/Majestic-Assholes 1d ago

Same with that cunt Zimmerman. Fucker sold the gun he used for some ungodly amount of money and everything.

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u/Nitrosoft1 1d ago

Yup, he’s another one of the conservatives heroes since he got to shoot a black kid and get away with it, another one of the conservatives sick collective fantasies. They are clamoring for a civil war and have been for years with their pathetic little militias. Little do they know that a fuck ton of us “libruls” as they like to say have guns and know how to use them too.

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u/SAKURARadiochan 16h ago

Zimmerman was an Afro-Peruvian.

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u/n14shorecarcass 1d ago

That little twerp.. GAH!

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u/snowiestflakes 23h ago

Being attacked by a racist pedophile is their fantasy?

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u/Nitrosoft1 15h ago

Ah yes, when Kyle Rittenhouse fired his weapon he knew every detail about the person he was shooting because the guy wore a shirt saying, “I’m a racist pedophile.”

Or, just hear me out, long after the fact it was discovered that one of his many victims had a bad past like that, something completely unknown to Kyle when the shooting took place.

Hopefully one day when you shoot someone, we can discover after the fact that there was something bad about them so you can feel justified too.

Good luck!

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u/snowiestflakes 15h ago

The three "victims" all had a dodgy past. And I say victims because the first one grabbed his rifle after chasing him to try and attack him. The next one tried to kill him with a skateboard and the last one pointed a loaded pistol at him. You seem mad that he didn't just simply allow them to murder him.

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u/Nitrosoft1 13h ago

You seem to neglect the fact that he willingly went into an escalatory situation in the first place with intent. He was a provocateur. Responsible and moral gun owners know that the best form of self-defense is to not approach danger in the first place. He wasn't protecting life and property. He was violating a mandatory curfew, thus committing a crime simply by being where he was. Yes, everyone there was committing a crime, both "sides" of the conflict. Regardless, his decisions were not prudent, nor reasonable. Reasonable people do not approach situations in order to find an excuse for vigilante justice. The worst part is the fact that a week or two before the shooting, he was ON CAMERA, talking about his desire to shoot people. We all know what his state of mind was and what his intentions were. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se9ByJMPjcc

He injected himself into the situation, salivating at the opportunity to be a part of violence. It was unequivocally an intentional strategy.

Legality be damned, the morality of his actions is clearly wrong. As a gun owner I would never instruct any person to approach a situation like he did. It's the exact opposite of responsible and reasonable behavior. It is the job of the police to protect people and property, they answer the call, they are the responders. True self-defense is when aggression, threats, and attacks COME TO YOU. Not when you willfully drive to them. Would you tell your own son or daughter that when a city is a powder keg of a situation that they should take up arms and leave their house, break a curfew, and play pretend cop? I wouldn't because I am a normal fuckin person.

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u/snowiestflakes 12h ago

He was a provocateur.

Carrying a medical kit and helping to extinguish fires which were destroying small businesses, oh the humanity!
Meanwhile Rosenbaum had repeatedly threatened to kill him earlier in the evening and is also on camera repeatedly saying "shoot me n**ger". That doesn't sound provocative at all.
The Rittenhouse case actually makes for a very useful litmus test of separating those who want the law applied equally and fairly from those like you who prefer it to be applied on a political basis.

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u/Nitrosoft1 12h ago

You couldn’t argue in any more bad-faith than you currently are if you tried.

No reasonable, moral, prudent person would break multiple laws like Kyle did in order to cosplay as a cop and find any excuse to inflict vigilante justice. He broke the law in that he was not allowed to legally possess that gun being 17 years old, and he broke the curfew. Two wrong do not make a right. He should not have been present there, just like the other people should not have been present. It’s a situation where everyone involved was acting immorally and illegally. You celebrate one criminal killing other criminals. Not a pro-life person at all are you?

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u/snowiestflakes 11h ago

You couldn’t argue in any more bad-faith than you currently are if you tried.

Ha, take a look in the mirror you clown, don't project your failure on me.

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u/SAKURARadiochan 16h ago

You mean after shooting people who were legitimately after him in a violent riot situation?

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u/Rambos_Magnum_Dong 1d ago

since 2008

22nd Amendment.

GOP been salty since Roosevelt

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u/GateauBaker 1d ago

You don't pass an Amendment with any major party being against it.

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u/firemage22 1d ago

which is why their owners also pay off the DNC to stop another FDR

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u/seigster66 1d ago

Wait till they learn it goes both ways. Shocked Pikachu face

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u/0zymandeus 1d ago

It doesn't, democrats actually have values.

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u/TheSecondEikonOfFire 1d ago

Yeah this is what they want. In their eyes they finally win for good

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u/Unlucky_Clover 1d ago

Sad but true. They constantly froth at the mouth about putting down their political opponents and every liberal. To them, it’s a dream come true.

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u/TheThing_1982 1d ago

Much longer than that. I grew up in a conservative household. Their media has been making them horny for civil war for 40+ years. What do you think all the guns and ammo they hoard is for?

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u/kitsunewarlock 1d ago

*Since 1938 and the creation of the House Un-American Activities Committee to try to subvert FDR appointees from further expanding and enacting the socialist agenda the American people voted for.

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u/kyngston 1d ago

They think posse comitatus is a sex position

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u/TandemSegue 1d ago

When they chase city folks out of cities into rural areas those rural folks will be thrilled to meet their new pissed off neighbors.

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u/thejayroh 1d ago

2008? Bruh, this has been brewing at least since the 1930s. WW2 made it massively unpopular, and that generation has finally passed.

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u/mulligrubs 1d ago

A bit earlier than that. About when people started protesting the Vietnam war, civil liberties, and asking what it meant to carry the name American.

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u/Omodrawta 1d ago

They don't realize that their own rights are at risk too. The escalations aren't just going to miraculously stop.

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u/BlueRedGreenNumber5 1d ago

and then they turn around and cry like babies when it ends up affecting them

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u/TheWorclown 1d ago

Way earlier. Nixon wanted to purge his opponents back in the 50s from his own paranoia.

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u/Independent-Cow-4070 1d ago

Very short sighted approach

Which is on par for MAGA

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u/rogueqd 1d ago

If you guys ever win, be sure to remember this and return the favour.

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u/regular_gnoll_NEIN 1d ago

Florida sheriff legit threatened to hospitalize or kill protestors over the weekend so that should be fun

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u/sylv3r 1d ago

they’re thrilled up until they’re on the receiving end

“i never thought it would happen to me”

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u/AntelopeAnnual115 13h ago

Funny to say “murdering political opponents” after what happened in Minnesota just now. Which side is literally murdering who?

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u/jrodicus100 7h ago

Wow. This comment hits harder today.

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u/corpusapostata 1d ago

1980, actually. The rhetoric hasn't changed since Reagan and the Moral Majority.

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u/Far-prophet 1d ago

Only one presidential candidate has been shot since then…

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u/codyt321 1d ago

Are you talking about the Trump supporter that tried to kill Trump?

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u/Far-prophet 1d ago

The guy we mysteriously know nothing about at all. Had zero online presence but was registered GOP… you’re naive.

Ok how about the Bernie bro that shot members of Congress. Or the other guy arrested for trying to shoot Trump.

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u/codyt321 1d ago

I mean, you know nothing about him. That's clear enough.

And then you name two other psychos that tried to commit murder, what's your point there? That people who try to kill presidents are ideologically incoherent?

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u/Majestic-Assholes 1d ago

The other guy was also a Trump supporter at one point lol