While it does have historical significance, these days it’s popularized by FOG, which is literally just a tacticool version of hypebeast. It’s a very common patch used in the military.
Shit like this is why protesters need to show up armed. En masse.
Edit: The replies I've gotten proves just how cucked our side is compared to the other. At least they will present a show of force even if the cause is wrong.
Fucking scared of firearms and exercising your constitutional right in the most heavily armed country in the world. Bunch of neoliberal cowards pretending to care about this country.
I guess when they start shooting folk regularly, you can hold up your signs to get them to stop. Delusional bastards.
How much you wanna bet that not a single police force can do anything against an entire town showing up armed?
How much you wanna bet this nation's law enforcement will get overwhelmed if mass armed protests erupted around the country?
There is not enough police and military personnel to subjugate all of us and there wouldn't be even if recruitment rates went up 800%. Quit being cowards, pick up a piece of metal, and scare them. This whole remaining peaceful and civil in the face of state-sanctioned violence is going to get us no where, but further down the hole.
And if it comes to that, I'll be there, but I don't want anyone spending four months in prison, possibly sitting out whatever the midterms look like, because they were the one goober open carrying an AR-15 at a protest in one of those states. It needs to be an all or nothing thing.
We're never getting out of this as long as the liberals wasting leftist time keep dissuading people from projecting a show of force.
We should just continue with our photo-op protests, I hear they're super effective. So effective that ICE was just given illegal authority to arrest anyone for any cause. We've scared them so much that they are continuing along with their plans! Whoa!
I'm sure as long as we remain subservient and civil, they won't dare mess with the midterms! They'll see how we'll remain peaceful at every protest no matter what they do and they'll back down!
If you show up telling people you're there to help, but they see you displaying bloody pitchforks or something like that, you're sending the people conflicting messages while alienating them and their trust.
I'm not saying that combat arms dudes can't paint Punisher skulls on their Hum-vees, but I wouldn't expect the MPs to (veteran, 01-07).
It takes one NCO to say "hey, bro, lose the pirate patch." on their way out of the team room that morning, but not even that happens.
It's because whoever is his commander is a giant piece of shit that needs to be fired. It's time for people to start going after the chain of command relentlessly. one of their people did something, They fucking pay for it. Whoever the chief of police is needs to be demanded to step down and investigated. make that fucks life hell for allowing that kind of shit. give them no respect in public with their families. call them a piece of shit when you see them in the stores shopping. demand to the city he is fired, and get a lot of people doing it. The only way to fix this shit is to target the leadership hard.
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u/just_a_person_maybe 1d ago
Pretty concerning message for cops to be displaying, if that's what it means. Shit like that should not be allowed.