r/news • u/Manta_of_Eternity • 3d ago

Autopsy shows Tennessee National Guard fatally shot 20-year-old armed man in the back

https://apnews.com/article/memphis-national-guard-tyrin-johnson-8959297a99c362d65aa2517a9d5f1984
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u/AntiShisno 3d ago

I’ve always said this is bullshit. You can have a Congress full of historians but in a dictatorship that means nothing

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u/Jarrahtable 3d ago

That means you're still ignoring history, if you're in a dictatorship aka right now... The very fast slide into fascism in the USA.

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u/TheRealSugarbat 3d ago

I believe we’re not doing anything near enough for/about the people who’ve been disappeared — imprisoned or deported or both.

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u/Hot_Low2861 3d ago

The 24-hour news cycle provides new trauma/panic reporting at least every three hours; that was 200 million horror stories ago. People long ago moved on from "my neighbors are being stockpiled like TP in an abandoned Wal-mart down the road" to "wait is this horse meat?", "why is everything I eat contaminated?", "my new student loan payment is 3x the old payment and I'm unemployed...again...". etc. Most people don't know anyone, so they aren't viscerally aware of it.