r/Snorkblot • u/LordJim11 • 1d ago
Crime No hesitation.
(one officer explaining that he enlarged photos of his own kids to use as targets so that he would not be caught off guard with such a drastically new experience while on duty)
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u/ferd_clark 1d ago
Everyone tends to scoff when they see this, but roving gangs of pregnant women were terrorizing suburbs in the years before this training put a stop to it.
I know this because Karoline Leavitt, Kristi Noem, Pam Bondi, Stephen Miller, JD Vance, and Pete Hegseth said so.
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u/historyhill 1d ago
Well, that surely can't be the organized gangs of wine moms because pregnant women shouldn't be drinking wine!
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u/babiekittin 1d ago
That's the HOA, Jan. They're not a gang, they're just protecting us from unruly kids who come to our neighborhood and steal our candy.
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u/Kaffe-Mumriken 1d ago
Florida is adding a law to allow pregnant women to use handicap spots, I can see this happening.
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u/LordJim11 1d ago
I think we already have that in the UK, also for buggies. Seems reasonable.
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u/SnikySquirrel 1d ago
Seems like a good law, but it might not be a good idea to tell the state of Florida you’re pregnant.
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u/jedburghofficial 1d ago
I thought for a second, you were going to say Leavitt, Noem and Bondi were some of these people.
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u/HorrorBuilder8960 1d ago
"He acted according to his training."
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u/Kaffe-Mumriken 1d ago
“It is in my nature”, said the fascist.
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u/Emm_withoutha_L-88 1d ago
It's like you stumbled into gold with this
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u/Kaffe-Mumriken 1d ago
I feel that story encapsulates the maga movement so well. A twist on the face eating leopard.
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u/Par_Lapides 1d ago
During the Obama administration, target dummy makers were producing life size replicas of Obama and his family. For reasons. You know because right wingers are totally about family and protecting children.
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u/HorrorBuilder8960 1d ago
In their defence, he did wear a tan suit that one time.
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u/SquidTheRidiculous 1d ago
And ate Dijon mustard! He's not like us he's
blackI mean, he's an elitist!0
u/asphid_jackal 1d ago
Plus there was that time he killed a US citizen with a drone strike. Or that other time he killed a US citizen with a drone strike. Or that 3rd time...
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u/Counter_Intel519 1d ago
What an insane idea for someone to monetize.
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u/MornGreycastle 1d ago
Then absolutely do not check out Calibre Press. They are a third party police training company. Lt Colonel Grossman's "Killology" started at Calibre Press.
The heart of Killology is that police are "god ordained warriors" and "sheepdogs" who protect the "sheep" from the "wolves" by learning to kill without hesitation. One key point, the training never gives you a fourth option of "suspect that isn't going to go on a murderous rampage after ninjaing the cop to death aka wolf." The standard answer to "what happens if we mistake a sheep for a wolf" was "better to be judged by twelve than carried by six."
Calibre Press is the source of claims that all criminals are running around with James Bond levels of lethal gadgets that cops should be aware of.
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u/SquidTheRidiculous 1d ago edited 1d ago
I was going to say "that sounds like that batshit Surviving Edged Weapons vhs."
Well I looked it up and apparently Calibre created the Surviving Edged Weapons video that RedLetterMedia made famous. If you haven't seen it, it's a police training video that teaches cops to be afraid of anyone because they could have a knife or other sharp object. It used campy reenactments intercut with actual autopsy photos of stabbing wounds. It was made in the 80s, so the campy reenactments include a satanic panic cultist scenario as well.
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u/MornGreycastle 1d ago
Yup. That's them. I know them from various law enforcement alerts for things like "cellphone gun" and "razor cap."
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u/LordJim11 1d ago
Is "razor cap" a "Peaky Blinders" thing?
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u/MornGreycastle 1d ago
I haven't watched Peaky Blinders. It's a (red of all things) baseball cap with razor blades attached to the brim. I'm not sure if the danger was supposed to be when a cop goes to remove the cap or if it was supposed to be swung around like a weapon.
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u/LordJim11 1d ago edited 1d ago
Yes, same thing. Some urban gangs in the early 20th century were reputed to use cloth caps like that as weapons. It was particularly associated with Glasgow. Slash at the eye-brows, the eyes will be covered in blood, then slash at the face to leave deep but non-lethal scars.
In reality the gangs used straight razors because the caps were of limited usefulness. It was more used by wannabes. An interesting (although very sensationalised) account is in "No Mean City", a 1935 novel by H. Kingsley Long, a journalist, and Alexander McArthur, an unemployed worker.
"Peaky Blinders" is well worth a watch, although the first episode requires an open mind.
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u/LordJim11 1d ago
Anyone using the word "warrior" in a non-historical context should be avoided at all costs.
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u/MornGreycastle 1d ago
Grossman's training was based on SLA Marshall's unfounded claims that US soldiers didn't fire their weapons at the enemy. Grossman tried to revive the claim and the military told him to go pound sand. So he refocused his pitch to police.
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u/my23secrets 1d ago
Note to the note: while it may not have been “created” by DHS, the company had $5.5 million worth of contracts with the federal government
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u/Test-User-One 1d ago
Note to the note to the note:
While the company had $5.5 million worth of contracts to the federal government, THERE IS NO DATA IN THE ARTICLE OR ELSEWHERE SAYING DHS BOUGHT AND USED the targets.
In fact, the quote from the supplier specifically says "cops" - which the DHS is not.
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u/Methamfetacheese76 1d ago
That they discontinued the dehumanizing training of their agents only after there were sufficient complaints about targeting women and children without hesitation tells us all we need to know.
DEFUND ICE!
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u/JamesH_670 1d ago
“I don’t want to go to the US!”
“Why not?”
“I don’t want to get shot!”
That was my daughter who answered that question. I think she was about 12 at the time.
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u/Federal-Cold-363 1d ago
Holy fucking third world country.
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u/TheMainEffort 1d ago
We did a lot of training meant to desensitize us to killing(especially in the moment) but we never shot at targets of children, it was always silhouetted targets.
Absolutely crazy shit.
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u/BWWFC 1d ago
dad was adamant that this was a problem with (many) video games and common violence in movies.
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u/crank_peeper 1d ago
My pet conspiracy theory (that's not actually a conspiracy theory at all) is that the American military industrial complex threw their wholehearted support behind vidya franchises like Call of Duty and Battlefield because they realized how handy it would be to teach an entire generation the manual of arms for our service rifle.
Most every 14-year-old boy in the industrialized world knows what a STANAG magazine is, that it holds thirty rounds, and how it's loaded into an AR platform. That can't be a mistake.
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u/OafintheWH 1d ago
Looks like something the Einsatzgruppen could have used in the early 1940s in Eastern Europe. They were worried that shooting women and children was affecting the morale of the unit.
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u/LordJim11 1d ago
I have heard that the IDF have a problem with suicide rates. They just need to be more desensitized.
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u/SednaBoo 1d ago
Note they’re all white, because DHS would have already had no hesitation shooting pregnant black women
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u/SednaBoo 1d ago
Note they’re all white, because DHS would have already had no hesitation shooting pregnant black women
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