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Trump says he's placing Washington police under federal control and deploying the National Guard (www.channel3000.com)

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Monday he’s placing the Washington, D.C., police department under federal control and deploying the National Guard to make the nation’s capital safer.

Trump has promised new steps to tackle homelessness and crime in Washington, prompting the city's mayor to voice concerns about the potential use of the National Guard to patrol the streets.

Ahead of a news conference, Trump said Monday on social media that the nation's capital would be “LIBERATED today!” He said he would end the “days of ruthlessly killing, or hurting, innocent people.”

Violent crime in Washington D.C. is actually at a 30 year low.

Edit to add archive link: https://archive.ph/2C0cN

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[–] 3abas@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

I have answered, you're just refusing to listen. Here, more concretely:

If I’m in the voting booth, I mark my ballot for a candidate who is not committed to genocide, even if they can’t win, because I will not personally authorize mass killing. I do that knowing it won’t “save the election” but it will keep my hands clean and my voice consistent.

The moral act is not about picking the winner. It’s about refusing to give your consent to mass slaughter.

We’ve seen this before. In 1930s Germany, the Social Democrats tried to stop the Nazis by partnering with “less fascist” nationalists. All it did was normalize authoritarianism and clear the path for worse horrors. Palestinian resistance thinkers like Ghassan Kanafani warned of the same trap: if you accept a colonizer who promises to bomb you less, you’ve already agreed that your people’s right to live is negotiable.

That’s what Democrats are banking on, that you’ll abandon your principles to stop “the worse guy.” But the pattern is clear: once you accept one genocide to stop a bigger one, you’ve agreed that genocide is a bargaining chip. And once it’s a bargaining chip, it never stops, it just changes targets, until one day the target is you.