brygphilomena

Military recruitment is actually really insidious. They actively target low income areas with the promise of paying for college. They find people who they can convince, maybe rightly so, that they have no other option if they want to leave their impoverished life. People who live in a place where there are no jobs. Kids who are living in houses that struggle to put food on the table.

Whether it's right or wrong. A lot of those soldiers may genuinely feel like they had no other choice but to sign up.

A lot of these soldiers are going to be late teens and early 20s. Essentially kids.

Dear police,

Your job is not meant to be "easy."

You job directly ruins the lives and livelihoods of individuals disproportionately to any 'crimes' that they may allegedly commit. Because of the power you wield and the damage that it causes, it is only right that your job should be difficult.

That difficulty is inherent to ensure that people are protected and that you follow all necessary procedures. That difficulty is to make sure that when you arrest someone, that you are sure they have committed a crime.

Your job should be harder, not easier!

Sincerely, Bryg Philomena

Order them to protect the protestors from the police. Use their crowd control to keep the cops from using tear gas and rubber bullets on peaceful protestors and reporters.

Move their commission to the state guard.

We do, it's just small. And shares membership with the national guard.

https://calguard.ca.gov/csg/

Hell, deploy state guard to protect protestors.

Build the state guard. Stop using the national guard.

I mean. That sounds like capitulating.

Protest and make the national guardsman recognize the protestors as the good guys.

You know the media will just ignore it if things are quiet and no one is there.

National guard can be taken and commanded by the president. But when that doesn't happen, it's chief commander is the governor.

The State Guard is solely under the command of the governor. It cannot have its control taken by the federal government. However, the state guard is often trained by the national guard and share membership.

I disagree. They bring guns to scare us. To let the protestors know there are consequences.

For them to deal with an armed populace let's them know if they start shooting, they might catch a bullet. They have to face that real consequence and it scares them.

Until that point, they pretty much know they don't face ANY repercussions for ANY action they do.

I'm not saying to start armed protests. But this isn't "flashing A gun" it's 50 or 100 people who could lay hundreds or thousands of rounds at or in them if they do start using their weapons. And it will scare them into second guessing whether their life is worth detaining a few potentially illegal immigrants.

National guard would be under the control of the president.

What you want is the State Guard (which is often trained by and shares members with the national guard.) the state guard cannot be coopted by the president. They answer only to the governor.

It would be funny to see musk burn the reputation has with both left wing for everything he's done up to now. And the right with this fued.

Who will be left to buy his cars?