Brittany DeBarros from @VetsAboutFace "It's more obvious than ever how you have dozens of federal agencies that are trained and equipped like militaries...there are constitutional and structural barriers to a president leveraging national guard however they want.."

"This program is a way to side step those barriers. I think that contributed the need to create his own force that he could send in to cities that he saw as not cooperating with fascism" @VetsAboutFace

"We're focused on dismantling militarism. Without going into it too much, we differentiate militarism - system of economic social political philosophies to further state violence and corporate interests - from militancy." @VetsAboutFace

"One of the functions of white supremacy is ahistoricism. US Military was formed in response to indigenous resistance. So many of the tactics from these fed agencies were tested in the suppression and genocide of indigenous people on this land" @VetsAboutFace

"These tactics were also tested in Palestine, parts of MENA, etc and then come back home to roost. We have a pipeline of National Guard members who are also law enforcement. You're seeing people leave the military and go to police forces" @VetsAboutFace

"One thing that's important is to not be in a bubble. To this day, the US military is still the most trusted institution when you look at polls. In many ways that's the utility of deploying the national guard. It evokes a certain reaction from the American public" @VetsAboutFace

"One of the most important things is this assumption that we can use violence to create safety, that we can use violence to create peace. That's the common logic of policing and of the military. The military is functionally about violence." @VetsAboutFace

"We need to get tight on our principles and practices now, or that will be an even more destructive force than legal repression. We are in a revolutionary moment, as leftists we have seen the gross harms of violent hierarchy" @VetsAboutFace

"As revolutionaries we have a duty to not just be stuck in this place of working against realities of violence and repression, but also thinking about how do we move ourselves strategically to be able to proactively build" @VetsAboutFace

"People who say more fascism would be good to accelerate the fall of the empire... f*** that...they are talking about a scale of violence they have never actually seen with their own eyes. You cannot explain the brutality of war unless you've experienced it" @VetsAboutFace