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I wouldn't assume that. The Kent State shootings (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings) and Bloody Sunday (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selma_to_Montgomery_marches) are enough to convince me that it is possible. Additionally, the current president had strong support in the military and police (estimates have him winning their votes with a margin of over 10%).

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Those are good points... I guess was just implying more along the lines of a larger scale citizens oppression a la rounding up people on a national scale. Kent or the march are akin to police shootings that we still currently have happening as far as scale/injuries but I guess that's being semantic.

Riots (even imposed by the people there to "control them") will always be difficult, confusing, awful situations. However the hyperbole of this problem being akin to Nazi Germany bothers me. Our military would simply tell a President to go get fucked before they would round up US citizens.

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