In capitalist America, in order to go to work every day you have to let the military search through your belongings. Once you pass the military checkpoint you must still be wary because there are police officers disguised as civilians hiding in the crowd.
Leave it to a New York Dem to come up with the most ridiculous and over the top reaction to violent crime.
That's the other thing. Without fail at the start of every year the local media goes on a sensationalist tear about how much crime there is on subways and how much worse it is. Usually they'll throw out percentages like "Oh a 10% increase in assault on the subway". But when they mention actual numbers, as I had last heard a couple weeks ago, we're talking about an increase from 58 to 64. On one of the largest subway systems in the world that moves 3+million people a day. We're talking about an extremely minuscule number, but if you didn't know any better you'd think the subway is an absolute war zone. Maybe put more money into cleaning up the subway and housing the homeless rather than putting more bandaid on the relatively nonexistant issue of violent crime.
It's non stop.
Just like how Chicago and New York are mad max but thenshithole red states with a violent crime rate 5x as high is "real america".
Violent crimes don't count when it's some drunk bigot looking for an excuse to "stand their ground" at the county fair.
Yup reactionaries taking full advantage of the fact there was no crime because everybody who wasn't a stupid asshole was staying home as much as possible so now the pre pandemic crime levels are an epidemic.
The contradictions, folks. They’re sharpening like you wouldn’t believe it. I’ve seen– Nobody understands sharpening contradictions like me, believe me- and Hokey Hochul wants to tell you “they’re gonna keep you safe, they’re gonna keep you safe!” But we know.. Hokey Hochul and the Crooked New York State Dems, they’ll tell you “State sanctioned violence, intimidation, we need it folks.” It’s sad. The Crooked Dems, they’ll tell you. They’re saying “we’re saving you from fascism” but believe me– they’re just as fascist as the republicans. Maybe even more fascist. People are saying “they’re using state violence to fight those opposed to state violence.” and it’s true folks. It’s unbelievable really. Unbelievable. They do it and they don’t even realize it and it sharpens the contradictions. And if they keep sharpening contradictions they’re gonna be big time losers– big time. Believe me. Just like the Czar. Remember the Czar? Huge loser, we all know it. Lenin said “the indissoluble oneness of the tsar and the people and the oneness of the people and the tsar, it’s a load of crap” and he’s right. Just like the Loser Czar, the Crooked New York Dems and Hokey Hochul are saying that their power is representative of the people, not over them.. It’s sad.
And you can bet it's still not enough for the hogs, they probably wouldn't be happy until there's tanks on every corner
Is that whats going on? I feel like I missed something.
Most movies about the near future are simply ridiculous. Like Back to the Future II, which predicted flying cars by 2015, hoverboards, and silly fashions.
Then you have Children of Men, made in 2006 and takes place in 2026. We’re not quite there yet but that movie is basically prophesy come true.
people always forget about soylent green (1973), but it seems pretty prescient too.
"By 2022, the cumulative effects of overpopulation, global warming, and pollution have caused ecocide, leading to severe worldwide shortages of food, water, and housing, bringing human civilization to the brink of collapse. New York City has a population of 40 million, and only the elite can afford spacious apartments, clean water, and natural food in walled-off communities patrolled by armed guards. The homes of the elite are fortified, with moats, security systems, and bodyguards for their tenants...The majority poor live in squalor, haul water from communal spigots, and eat highly processed food wafers made by a single large food processing firm..."
Took me a moment to realize this is from the movie, and not a description of actual living conditions in 2022.
well for one thing imagine the democrats providing communal water spigots or highly processed food wafers to the filthy poors.
Especially considering some technical brondouchebag read that and went "sounds awesome" now I literally get YouTube adds for soylent to really emphasize how dystopian it is.
There is never any money to repair or improve the subway system.
There is always money to funnel more violent psychopaths with guns and legal immunity into the subway system to harass innocent people.
The NYC Subway is rapidly approaching a state of "Oops! All Cops!"
Legitimately convinced if we could convince everybody to not use the subway for a couple days they'd start shooting each other.
- In capitalist America, the people are so brainwashed that they think having a military checkpoint on the subway is to keep them safe
I just don't want cops. Anything is better. They're structurally the worst of the government gangs.
Obviously not having armed men on trains is the best option but lol
- In capitalist America, fascism is so normalized and the people’s everyday lives are so wrought with violence and that they welcome increasingly fascistic policy with open arms because it feels safer
Christ, you think this shit is bad? Wait until they start making you pull the subway cars yourself.
Cops have all the gear that national guard have because this is a fascist country. Even if you don't think national guard are less terrified and bloodthirsty than cops (structurally there's reasons to think they are), you're still left with there being little other difference aside from the uniform.
rabid zombie murder ninjas are probably less likely to murder you than a cop
Wow… blown away rn. Just looked it up and it’s true. Zero deaths from rabid zombie murder ninjas in the US last year. We need to get these guys on subway patrol asap
Yes, they are. Cops kill over 1000 people every year in the US. We have no idea how many shots are fired, especially when they're popping off because an acorn hit their car or something stupid.
Maybe it's just less interaction with the public idk
It's the less interaction with people thing for sure. The shit the NG did during Katrina or even Kent State is horrific, the more exposure to civilians they get the more awful shit will happen
There’s an even more recent example with how states deployed NG during the 2020 BLM protests
Yeah, I linked an article about that one ng genius firing on a car because a cop with a beanbag gun said "light em up"
Literally any excuse to pull the trigger is good enough for them
LOL. I used to work at a large state air national guard base. The most ridiculous thing I've ever seen is guardsmen, walking back from getting their mcdonalds delivery at the main gate, DRAGGING THE MUZZLES OF THEIR RIFLES ON THE GROUND. Congrats, you've just upgraded from fairly untrained and mostly terrified to completely untrained and completely terrified armed psychos roaming the community. Name something more amerikkkan.
I have a hard time believing that anything in the US is worse than its police. At the very worst, National Guard are just as bad as cops. I could believe that. But worse? Nah.
God I fucking hate this state.
Perfect example of how "vote blue no matter who" just leads to electing conservatives who self identify as democrats for political expediency
We really are trying to prove that dems aren't necessarily any better than republicans.
Having seen the NYC Subway as a tourist, I worry about the safety of those guardsmen.
You can probably get tethanus or dysentery just by looking at the NY Subway.
