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Israeli policy is to not report missile hits so they can claim Iron Dome works 1000% perfectly.

They don't plan on having a "next" election. And those businesses will have their workers clearly supplied to them on contract from the federal labor camps they're already working to build.

My big issue is they tried to Marvel up the ending again. Sutekh killing the universe at least made some form of sense, I guess. The Rani coming back was interesting, but the whole "we're bringing Omega back" plot was weird and rushed, and the Poppy thing felt shoved in as a contrivance for Disney.

And a British journo got a rubber round put through his leg in a similar thing, from what I understand.

A lot of people put us there during Reagan, Bush or Bush II.

Indians, Chinese, or Muslims is my guess.

They're already planning to have massive ICE camps here in the US, they just cut a $45bn contract for tons more, contracting with private prisons, camping manufacturers, and more. We're bringing back slave labor - if they're detained, LEGALLY they can be used for labor without pay, at gunpoint.

Pretty much this. Multiple generations of war TV have pointed this out. MASH has an episode about it for chrissakes.

Also, we all forget he tried to gin up a war with Iran in his first term. Wartime presidents tend to stay in power, and he knows this - wartime protests would also give him an excuse to use the military at home like the blunt instrument he sees them as.

Arguably, the list alone, plus the customized police vehicle and police outfit, would be enough premeditation.

Precisely this. He didn't want a happy birthday parade, he wanted an "all this equipment can be used to kill you, no matter who or where" parade. He truly believes that all the military can and should be good for is death and misery and harming the people he thinks need to hurt. In his brain, they're his personal faceless, nameless drones to inflict violence. He's been using ICE for this, but ICE doesn't make him look like his cool dictator friends in the way that rolling a column of Abrams down Mulholland Drive would.

It's what's known as "cultural genocide". You saw this most prominently with American, Canadian, and Mexican residential schools, as well as literally everything the British did in Ireland - you take the kids away from their heritage when they're young and basically drown them in their colonizer's heritage. You punish them for speaking about their old lives, speaking their native cultural tongue, or doing anything to associate with their old life. You do this severely, frequently, publicly and without ceasing. Eventually the kid "forgets" about their old culture as a defense mechanism, and they generally don't know enough to pass on those traditions, culture, or language.

Legally, this is a recognized definition of genocide. Russia has made it clear since before the war started that they don't want to content themselves with simply killing Ukrainian soldiers or occupying Ukrainian lands, their ultimate goal is the elimination of the CONCEPT of Ukraine as anything but part of Russia.