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(From the musical Rent)
How do you document real life
When real life is getting more
Like fiction each day
Headlines -- bread-lines
Blow my mind
And now this deadline
"Eviction -- or pay"
Rent!
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Israel deepens assault on Gaza, ordering deadly strikes and blocking aid
Nick Schifrin: There are few options. And since the war restarted, over 500,000 have been again displaced. Israel says its strategy has been not only military maneuvers, but seizing and holding territory.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
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Westworld (The Original Sound Track Album)
1986 U.S. Reissue
Another one of my beloved childhood movies, endlessly played on WSBK TV38 in Boston on Saturday and Sunday afternoons in the #80s .
Yule Brenner is incredible in it, and everything about it makes it a perfect movie, including the music. A great score by Fred Karlin.
I’m sure it was probably pretty good, but I’ve never seen a second of the HBO series.
#vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcollection #art #music #1970s #70smusic
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David Brooks calling for a general strike or nonviolent civil disobedience
was not on my bingo card.
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Opinion | What’s Happening Is Not Normal. America Needs an Uprising That Is Not Normal.
It will take a concerted effort by every sector of our society to respond to Trumpism’s threat.David Brooks (The New York Times)
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rich white guys like David Brooks may be mad now, but all they want is a return to the old status quo, not really understanding or caring that the status old quo was what created the perfect conditions for Trump to seize power of the US government. He can quote Marx all he wants, he still doesn't seem to me to be at all interested in how we came to this point of total constitutional crisis that we are in now.
The conditions that let Trump consolidate power of the US government is all related to, the roll-back of Roe v. Wade, the militarization of the police, the climate crisis, and the various US-backed genocides going on right now. All of these things are related by the same cause. So if there are to be wildcat strikes and mass civil disobediance against Trump's despotism, the movement **must** demand redress of all of those issues at once, or it will ultimately affect no change at all.
one problem at a time please, in the appropriate order
@codinghorror @cdarwin no, that is absolutely a recipe for disaster. I cannot stress this enough.
All problems are RELATED. They ALL must be solved at once.
"All problems are RELATED. They ALL must be solved at once by getting to the root of the problem."
I think this is correct in the sense that it's people power and numbers that
is our only hope, and you have to include all of the fights to include all of
the people.
Neither was the Wall Street Journal calling for impeachment.
𝑻𝒓𝒖𝒎𝒑 𝑾𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝑩𝒆 𝑰𝒎𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒅 𝑨𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏
𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐥𝐥-𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐫, 𝐧𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐫 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐭.
…A future Trump impeachment seemed all but guaranteed by last Wednesday morning. It seems only slightly less likely now. It may even be desirable to restore America’s standing with creditors and trade partners.…
wsj.com/opinion/trump-wants-to… (THEY TOOK DOWN THE PAYWALL FOR THIS ONE)
@cdarwin
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The General Strike
The General strike -the people united shall never be stopped. If we strike together we can make true real change. Sign the strike card today.The General Strike
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Independent Petroleum Group Updates On Strating Projects As Part Of Regional Expansion Plan - EUROPE SAYS
Independent Petroleum Group KSCP is a Kuwait-based company that primarily operates, together with its subsidiaries, in the petroleum industry sector. TheEUROPE SAYS
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Hugz & xXx
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FUCK THIS TIMELINE
where Krystol is demanding Democrats apologize to people like me and fucking Brooks is calling for an uprising.
have lost so many and so much, because i got blackballed and ostracized for calling this moment 23 YEARS AGO WHEN BUSH CREATED THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY.
if you want to destroy your tyrants, start supporting & defending us Cassandras. raise our voices with yours, and make it impossible to disappear us ―because they already are doing so.
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so like, is HE gonna offer an apology? Maybe do some introspection and listen to what the people who said that then are saying now?????
Or……….
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The minute I heard "Homeland" I thought "more like 'fatherland'
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@Asbestos Yup. The minute that stuck I thought to myself "Probably just a matter of time now "
Choosing that word is evidence of a tin ear that is bone deep. Seeing those terms figuratively crawl out from under mental rocks is evidence that the people of their ilk who recognize the connotations have let slip the dogs of derp. Fascist derp.
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I feel like this is an archetype of pundit now - the conservative Very Serious Person who was super into the second Iraq War and most other things that made the last 25 years worse... but is also Very Grossed Out by Trump.
Because of this, that genre of very serious person now has like nowhere to go ideologically except to a place of vaguely agreeing with the leftists who still hate them for being wrong for decades and causing disasters.
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I was an intern in Arlen Specter's office in DC when DHS was created. My main task was a report on the intelligence failures leading to 9/11. DHS addressed precisely 0 issues that allowed that attack. Those 3 months showed me how disconnected from reality the government is.
I presented my findings, basically that the group that got the plane at Dulles that hit the Pentagon was the only one that we had enough that we should have caught them. The Senator told my boss I was wrong and to rewrite the report to say we should have been able to stop all of them. I quit and never looked back.
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Yup. When the planes struck the towers, I told my mom that the world had just changed. I couldn't seen exactly how things would play out, but I knew that unscrupulous men seize moments of crisis to advance their agendas. I was also aware of a rising fascist movement in the form of sovereign citizen types, especially in the inland Pacific Northwest.
I remember thinking that the name of the DHS was very dystopian in an Orwellian sense.
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Same here. I knew immediately it would change everything and not for the better. Hated the very name of the DHS for that reason.
@tintinaujapon @christymarx @bruce
No kidding. That name gave me a chill. "Homeland" is way too much like "Fatherland". It's "blood and soil" aesthetics, and that is never to be trusted.
I also like to point out how immigration used to be handled by the "Immigration and Naturalization Service" -- the name implied helping immigrants.
"Immigration and Customs Enforcement" flips the emphasis to stopping immigrants. 
Names -> Culture -> Recruiting. It matters.
It definitely reminded me of Nazi Germany's exhortations of the Fatherland.
@Barbramon1 @bruce I'm old enough to remember when shotguns in an airport were a never-see kinda thing.
And when you could bring a whole-ass cordless drill in your carry-on.
I don't know how to slack the ratchet. But I do know that flying was safe for decades before all this and I believe, firmly, the only thing they really had to do was put a lock on the Goddamn cockpit door (and, hey, turns out even that is no guarantee if the pilot decides to take a planeload of folks with him to Valhalla).
as a Cassandra.... yes.
in case you haven't read this:
the-sentinel-intelligence.com/…
You're Not a Fearmonger. You Have Sentinel Intelligence.
Some of us can hear the future.Jessica (The Sentinel-Intelligence)
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"The essense of being a leftist js being dismissed as unserious for being correct too quickly."
- @NathanTankus on bsky
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That's when so much of this shit started to unravel.
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When the Patriot Act came out, it became very clear to some of us that our own government was exploiting 9/11 so heavily, they may as well have been the terrorists responsible-- even if they weren't, I hold them culpable.
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Yesterday remembered Michael Ratner, the human rights lawyer who defended many, but most famously ppl in Gitmo. And here’s a link where it mentions stuff about government kidnapping ppl from the streets and detained them without charge or cause.
(This is from when he passed away, in 2016)
middleeasteye.net/opinion/mich…
Michael Ratner: The Jewish lawyer who fought for Muslims and the US constitution
We need more people who will stand for justice no matter what the consequences. We need more Ratners to keep the flame burningMiddle East Eye
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"if you want to destroy your tyrants, start supporting & defending us Cassandras. raise our voices with yours, and make it impossible to disappear us ―because they already are doing so."
All the desperate middle class liberal wp should be using privilege on this instead of whatever it is they're doing.
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hoooooooly shit
some of these fuckers finally admitting we were right
wow
actually surprised
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@moira
I believe nothing those guys say.
Surely they thought that persecuting Arab Americans was just fine all those years they spent committing genocide in the Middle East.
They should have never been rehabilitated by the corporate Democrats.
They're simply wanting back in human society.
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What if the US had, instead of threatening to invade a sovereign nation because they didn't like the idea of others being able to judge if they'd committed war crimes, said, "great, we'll also arrest any suspected war criminals of other nations' militaries". Think of how safe, stable and *different* that would have made the world.
It's difficult to see how there could then have been US citizens whose job it was to torture people, and US drone pilots drinking away images of dead kids
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We're gonna rock down to Atlantic Avenue!
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Parker Brothers in Arms
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#Dgar will be tooting telepathically today.
If you think of a funny joke, that was me.
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Well, that joke was funny, but get your mind out of the gutter!
And try and keep them clean. There are kids out there, OK?
"Microscopy: Impact of disinfectant on bacteria."
Me: I don't know if I can watch. It's too violent.
(where I am as of late)
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Ants make and use disinfectants. It's a good video.
youtube.com/watch?v=v9yxYGwCeh…
Why BACTERIA hate DISINFECTANTS - What happens under the Microscope?
What happens when spiral-shaped bacteria meet hand disinfectant under the microscope? In this video, I test the effects of a disinfectant on fast-moving mic...YouTube
Oh the video linked isn't the one about ants. It's the bacteria one. I read about disinfectANTs in a book ...
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There's a pawn shop on a corner on Pittsburgh's Pennsylvania Avenue
And I walk up and down 'neath the clock
By the pawnshop on a corner on Pittsburgh's Pennsylvania Avenue
But I ain't got a thing left to hock
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Our House
In the middle of our fully owned combination
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Trump and America need a quick decision in the NY civil fraud case - what's the hold-up, judges? -
Gov. Kathy Hochul’s people vehemently deny charges that she’s abusing her power over New York’s courts to blackmail President Donald Trump, but then what isEUROPE SAYS
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Reminds me a great conversation I had with twin deaf brothers about 50 years ago. By moonlight.
The moon was so full, they could read my lips.
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I'd like to be
Close to the sea
In the middle of Marvin Gardens in the shade
#Beatles
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Baby, You Can Drive My Car
But when your done, move it to Free Parking
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🗣KILMAR IS ALIVE!
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It’s a GOOD thing as Martha would say.
And it’s a good thing for the administration that he is alive. …..
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Shocked but happy that he is alive. Here's hoping he gets home to his family soon, as well as the chance to tell his story.
Also, this is proof that pressure works. When someone actually does something, the needle moves. This needs to be a lesson to the Schumers of the world: good can be done, things can be changed, but only when you put forth the effort and courage necessary to make it so.
Lots to be done, but this is a heartening start.
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@Linux the wife spoke to him and i’ve seen photographs of the guy.
he had hair and was obviously forced-shaved. van Hollen would NOT allow getting a photo op with Kilmar in gulag fatigues.
that piece of shit Bukele post pics from different angles.
am going to take at face value that the wife spoke to him and identified him by their conversation.
6 fingers is not normal, the last I knew.
Furthermore, the reports I read said the Senator was going to pass on the message, and not that the wife actually spoke with him.
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Bob liked to play his poker
Pinochle whist and euchre
But shootin dice was his favorite game
He got throw’d in jail with nobody to go his bail
The judge done said that he refused to the fine
He’s in the jailhouse now
He’s in the jailhouse now
Well, I told him once or twice to
stop playin cards and shootin dice
He’s in the jailhouse now --can't pass GO cannot collect $200
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Congress, girl, you in danger.
The Members of Congress (Senators and Representatives) in the US are in real danger of being killed or disappeared. It’s standard in authoritarian takeovers.
The current Representatives and Senators must act now to protect themselves (and the country and Constitution).
Did you know:
In 1993, Yeltsin ordered the russian military to shell the parliament, killing dozens, and reformed the government to put more power in the presidency?
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In 1992, Fujimori dissolved the Peruvian legislature and sent soldiers to occupy legislative buildings, arresting many in them (and causing others to flee)?
In 2007, three Congresspeople from El Salvador we’re found dead in Guatemala, and the four police officers arrested for their deaths were later killed in prison themselves?
In 2021, Min Aung Hlaing dissolved the Myanmar legislature and arrested most civilian leaders, some of whom are still missing?
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In 2021-now, Saied dissolved the Tunsian legislature entirely?
Well, now you do.
There are many other examples of world leaders destroying the legislature, and destroying legislators, as they work to consolidate their power.
The US Congress must take action, now, as a matter of self-preservation, in addition to the defense of the country, the American people and the US Constitution.
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Most of the US Congress were in the building when Trump incited the storming of the Capitol. It should be a very visceral threat for them.
Only this time, instead of failing to send the National Guard, he will be sending the Army to assist.
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Exactly. With such a wealth of evidence, it's hard to see them yield so readily. And we don't even have to look further back than the Columbia vs Harvard comparison. One capitulated and one didn't, and they're both suffering. At least Columbia seems like they are starting to push back a little. Better late than never?
I can't say what I would do in their position. But I will say that leaders at any level have a certain responsibility that comes with that job. Surrendering without even making an attempt to resist isn't what we as a society need, and like you said, on an individual level it isn't going to pay off with this guy or his henchmen.
@AngelaPreston I agree with you, clearly.
Good point that leadership[ carries with it responsibilities. And I also get how genuinely concerning and frightening defiance feels and is.
A rabid dog cannot be negotiated with, no matter how much we wish we could negotiate and get safety from such negotiations.
Compliance and defiance don't guarantee safety, yet even as defiance seems more likely to have one prevail or survive long-term, making it through today can feel impossible.
Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) on Threads
Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski says the quiet part out loud: “We are all afraid… I am oftentimes very anxious about using my voice because retaliation is real.”Threads
there is every reason to believe the fear Murkowski is speaking of is direct threats, not threats directly from potus (yet).
For example: vanityfair.com/news/story/trum…
To have the gop leaders themselves disclose and draw attention to this is very good. The direct threat from the admin I was focusing on in my 3 post thread is in _addition_ to maga's direct threats.
Amazing and terrible that there a multiple levels of peril in play.
“They’re Scared Shitless”: The Threat of Political Violence Informing Trump’s Grip on Congress
With the president smashing norm after norm, even lawmakers within his party have feared for their personal safety, and at least one has told confidants that it has swayed his decision-making.Gabriel Sherman (Vanity Fair)
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I totally believe it's likely to happen here. A certain someone never forgets nor forgives real or perceived slights. Retribution is his lifeblood.
When I say things like this, though, to my friends and spouse, they categorically refuse to believe such a thing could happen here even though they loathe the man and his minions.
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@Bette they think there is no logic in a dictator liquidating the legislature? Interesting.
I partly researched and assembled the thread you replied to the first post of specifically to confirm my own suspicion that it is typical for autocratic backsliding to imperil legislators.
Sounds like maybe some people are simply in denial maybe?
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excellent point.
I wonder how we can all best use the preparation, warning, impact, and aftermath template the wiki mentions to try to help people get past the denial and/or normalcy bias and take action?
@yuhasz01 @Bette Good things are happening in video land, but TikTok is censoring and YouTube won't be far behind. I think spreading video is a great way to reach the nonreaders. It would help to use a federated video platform for safekeeping.
Videos to archive, spread:
youtube.com/@ParkrosePermacult…
It helps to tell people what's going on using small words and easy concepts. 40% of the US has low literacy (5th grade or less).
Parkrose Permaculture
Parkrose Permaculture is a family-run farmette on 1/4 acre in Portland, OR. Angela has more than 25 yrs experience in permaculture and specializes in perennial food crops, unusual fruit, beekeeping, duck/chicken-keeping, domestic skills, and unschoo…YouTube
@yuhasz01 @Bette Permaculture makes the point that Gen Z reports not finding out about the April 5 protest. Spreading information about available actions to that group is key. Fliers in bars and on poles that also spread on social media like TikTok and YouTube. All acts matter. Academics are being vanned and deported.
I don't know who the key influencers are there, but some will be turning toward democracy protection like TechDirt and Teen Vogue did.
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@yuhasz01 @Bette Nihilism and learned helplessness are real and huge obstacles.
I suggest AOC's approach of selling the solution, not just the problem.
A better world is possible. Everyone can have rights, process, healthcare, and a fair wage for their work.
Millions of people can say no and win.
They work for us and they are stealing our money instead.
Voting is something we need to fight very hard for.
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That's a reeaally tough thing to do. People tend not to act until their own normalcy is actively being threatened.
There would have to be some kind of scenario set up that literally makes people experience what it would be like to lose everything, for them to understand the gravity of the danger.
@TheEffekt @yuhasz01 @Bette Everyone knows an immigrant. Everyone knows someone on Social Security. Everyone knows someone who work(ed) for the federal government. Everyone knows a pregnant person. Everyone will see the effect of tariffs on prices and of DOGE on medicaid and other important services.
It's just that it's happening so fast and "conservative news" is slow to catch on.
Hubs and I are both on SS & Medicare, but LONG before this admin I've been advocating for both programs. Since Reagan times! Anyway, just to stir the pot, I said to my spouse "I wonder when the new admin will start disappearing Dem congresscritters." His response was immediate "Oh, for FFS, that's never going to happen!" Then he said that what I said was just like a MAGAt saying "Pizzagate is real."
Whatcha think?
hours ago a US citizen in Florida was taken/detained for entering Florida as an alien. Your spouse’s assessment that members of Congress will not be disappeared is optimistic to the point of reckless fantasy. I wish it weren't.
georgiarecorder.com/2025/04/17…
U.S.-born man from Georgia held for ICE under Florida’s new anti-immigration law • Georgia Recorder
Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez, a 20-year-old U.S. citizen, was being held in the Leon County Jail Thursday, charged with illegally entering Florida as an “unauthorized alien” — even as a supporter waved his U.S. birth certificate in court.Jackie Llanos (Georgia Recorder)
@Bette @TheEffekt @yuhasz01 He needs to read the news at feditrends.com . And maybe some history of Germany, and check the Project 2025 checklist.
It sounds extreme because it is. FFS Trump is giving billions to El Salvador and a rancher in TX to build new concentration camps. For citizens too he hopes.
He is defying the SCOTUS and other court orders and the rule of law. He hopes people don’t catch on until it is too late.
@Bette
Denial does sound likely, it's a lot more comforting.
Also wondering if we have lost cultural memory of what happens in a crisis? After WW2 the rich west experienced an unprecedented period of stability, peace and growth. The tools people need to cope with a world in crisis haven't been passed on for several generations.
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It feels like some people are incapable of learning beyond their own direct experience 😞
Or maybe they just think things always work out well in the end, because that's all they've ever known. They do not see the foundations upon which their life exists.
The silent generation sacrificed so much to protect their children from fascism, but in election after election it's the silent generation's children that are giving power to fascism.
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I can't answer for @Bette of course, but a few *have* answered me when confronted with the same question.
Usually something patriotic - "Democracy always wins" (and they refuse to hear all of the times that it hasn't). Or something about "hope and faith". These are people that are so terrified by reality that they absolutely refuse to see it.
Some of the people I engage with are elderly and don't see what they can possibly do about it *other* than hope. They are terrified, but don't know how to resolve it. They learned how to huddle in a corner and cut back from their Depression-era parents, so that's what they're doing.
People are suffering a trauma response daily; at some point they are going to change tactics because what they're doing isn't working. And basically all of us have been trained that "fight" should be the absolute last resort.
(I'm not a doctor, just someone that has processed trauma)
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@Bette I’m in a similar position. While friends and family agree with me politically and are horrified at what’s happening, they all refuse to believe things could / will get that bad. They have faith in our system, rule of law, etc.
But I’m over here screaming if that system worked it would have leapt into action by now! Who’s pushing back? Who’s stopping him? Literally no one. They’re already disappearing US citizens. People they don’t like are next.
@aburtch @Bette I think one can have faith in our system, and rule of law while _also_ knowing that taking out the legislature is standard practice in autocratic backsliding.
Interesting, and more than a little distressing, that people aren't grasping that in the struggle to maintain the rule of law, lawmakers will be targeted.
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@zloybryuzga suggesting that shelling Parliment is somehow pro democracy is weird and likely in violation of German law (as so in violation of this instance’s rules).
Muting you for a week. If you insist on being an apologist for violence I will report it and block you.
I would rather not do that, so please don’t make it my only option left. Thank you in advance.
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Sadam's Baath takeover:
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Murdered his own party and opposition alike until everyone in the chamber "got it"
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We have seen this type of power grab in other authoritarian governments.
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I very much hope US legislators have been talking to military commanders since the election result last year. I have seen no evidence at all of this. It seems like the obvious thing to do when the constitution is under such threat. The US officer's oath doesn't contain anything about obeying the president, that I know of.
I hope the absence of evidence is because of the conversations being clandestine, not evidence of absence.
#US #coup #constitution #fascism #tyranny
@eswag The US military swears an oath of allegiance to US Constitutions, not president, though they do swear to "…obey…orders of…President…and…orders of…officers appointed over me," which makes sense as…superior officers/commander in chief have reason to command soldiers to follow all _legal_ orders.
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@eswag UCMJ forbids soldier to follow illegal orders. "to be lawful…order must 1 have…valid military purpose 2 be clear, specific, & narrowly drawn…order must not conflict with…statutory…constitutional rights…)"
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@eswag no, perhaps you mistyped: "I note the officer's oath doesn't include obeying the president" is not true. It does.
The oath includes: "...I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me."
And yes, the oath does not include instruction on how to arrest violators of the Consitutition or the oaths others took.
Commanders in Chief do need to be able to command.
But their commands must be lawful for the soldier to obey the commands.
The Constitution is the highest law of the land, so nothing the President Commands can be lawful if it contravenes the Constitution.
@eswag my non-lawyer understanding is that if a military commander had reason to believe a potus was violating the law, and ordered an MP (normal soldiers don't really have arrest powers beyond citizen's arrest), then the MP would have to arrest the potus to both comply with a lawful order and possibly avoid becoming some sort of accomplice after the fact or maybe an obstructer of justice.
The military in the US has several laws forbidding them from domestic and civilian law enforcement.
@lyda and Speaker Johnson, like all the gop, is also in danger.
Saddam "Murdered his own party and opposition alike until everyone in the chamber 'got it'"
No one in Congress is safe from such things.
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