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.
They’re defunding the library to pay for that tank
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.
You may think this makes it feel like you live under military occupation.
Yes!
Copaganda starting young
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
and motherfuckers say you dont live under fascism already holy shit
Just reminding the populace that they will stop at nothing to “protect and serve”
i remember getting fingerprinted as a kid by the local police, lol
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!”.
that’s half the reason why i don’t have kids, i don’t know how i’d normalize the militarization of the police – joke’s on me I guess, now i don’t have an excuse!
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
You’d think they’re occupying a library in Fallujah by looking at this with no context
But there’s no sepia filter, must be a white country.
Literal war vehicles in cozy looking suburbs
Really gunning for that most lethal army in the world title
Librarians should get an AT4 under their desk for this kind of thing
