• stickly@lemmy.world
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    I love how fucking amateur and unqualified they are even with all their big scary guns and kit. What, like 7(?) dudes all lined up in a queue directly out from the door? Just pointing their waaaay too-cumbersome-for-raiding long rifles straight up in the air? Nobody remotely covering any windows or other exits?

    They look more like fucking trick or treaters than anything. Probably feeling invincible because they know they’re there to kidnap a 120lb woman or some shit.

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      Why are they toting assault rifles everywhere they go in the first place? They’re not getting in gun fights all the time. Heavy Weaponry like that should be held in reserved not Frontline. It is because the US wants to turn the United States into Gaza in the West Bank.

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      Frighteningly, the incompetence probably won’t last. They are getting a hell of a lot of field experience and budget for toys and training.

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      That’s what is so glaring about this. It’s so so obviously just for show. Just to intimidate and posture. They are not seriously concerned about their own safety. They feel 100% safe doing this. They are raiding a house that they are quite certain does not contain any hostiles. If they believed it did, they would be WATCHING FOR THEM and not lined up in an orderly line waiting to get MOWED DOWN BY LITERALLY ANYONE.

      Incompetence.

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        As I pointed out in another thread, they act like intimidation is a shield against harm in exactly the same way that schoolyard bullies do. It relies on people’s tendency to freeze up and panic when surprised by a violent confrontation to work, and if it doesn’t work, things escalate quickly.

        The other problem is, those kinds of bullies aren’t normally equipped with firearms…

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        They can be incompetent and afraid for their own safety at the same time. I agree with everything you said though.