• CTDummy@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    3 months ago

    I mean props to him seemed like he was “wow yeah, fair enough”. In “other” countries that protester would have been beaten into a coma.

    • Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.ccEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      It’s the “i’m not paid enough to cause a civil war” expression. Dude just put his hands up like a roller coaster about to take a plunge, he know who his real enemy are but still have to make it look tough.

      • CTDummy@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        Yeah feels that way. The hand up feels more like he’s with a sparring partner than “enemy of the state”. He’s got a rifle slung and doesn’t feel like he even thinks the protester will go for it. Pretty level headed by all involved including the guy conducting the ol’ spineroo.

    • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.deMEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      i mean military just showed up, did absolute minimum just so that they can’t be prosecuted for refusing orders, and when parliament voted martial law away some of them left (before being ordered so) then the rest left anyway. they knew what was going on and didn’t want part in this

      • Skullgrid@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        I mean, conscription sucks etc etc, but this is why you want it. You *try* to make it so that the average citizen is represented throughout the military so that it’s not just one group of gung ho violent dickheads that self select for abuse of power.

        Also, it means the guy in the crowd can also put up against that kind of bullshit as a civillian.