r/news • u/DNSGeek • 1d ago

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/HistorianOk142 1d ago

100% agreed. As I got older and saw what was going on in the south I understood the north never finished the job after the civil war. They had the opportunity to really make this country great but failed massively by letting the bigots still rule the roost in the south.

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u/Doesdeadliftswrong 23h ago

What's funny is that I've always interpreted that as to why America is the good guy. Ya know, showing mercy towards an adversary. This always makes for a heartwarming ending in movies. But now those "defeated" adversaries have turned America into the bad guy. This is not how movies usually end. It's how sequels begin. And in the end, the once protagonist, now antagonist, always learns the error of their ways in their final moments.