You know the guard are loving this pointless bullshit. Beats being at their jobs and with families to play fascist theatre for the demented rapist. Isn’t that why anyone signs up?
I can’t imagine why anyone with a heart would join, really. I safely assume anyone I see who has joined is a nazi or there for the airline preboard clapping and kudos.
Well they’re not cops. They’re not army. They’re typically deployed in natural disasters or for superbowl-type-crowd control. They have regular 9-5 jobs and go to training once a month or something like that.
When Gee Dubz sent them to Iraq to fight, that was a huge overreach of what the NG is for - and just another in the very long line of outrageous republiQan idiocies that ended up here.
They are paid by a nation state and have the authority to kill. so. yeah. they’re the same as every other layer even if they mostly do the bitch work locally.
I have experience with plenty of natl guard folk who have wished to deploy to see “the shit” and yet never have so they have become cops and roam cities pretending the locals are guilty before they are innocent. Calling in ICE, jumping for tazers, not focused on community or deescalating.
No. it’s not hyperbole. I can think of at least three people, right now.