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That would be a huge shift I’d be surprised to see.
What the Dems say publicly and how they vote haven’t really been aligned. We had a bunch vote yea on a resolution thanking ICE for defending us.
Lots of talking and very little walking from the Dems so far.
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They should have been doing this since Jan 20th. All the nominations and passed CRs are embarrassing. Some even voted for Perdue after it was really obvious where we were.
A bunch of them even voted Yea on a bill thanking ICE for protecting the homeland.
They are really hard to watch.
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With everything he has done, this was the tipping issue?
Genocide, concentration camps, destruction of our science and health establishments, sexual assault, felonies.
But now he wasn’t invited to the picnic.
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So parasols are going to be the 2025 hot fashion item?
Can't be too careful about sun exposure.
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Non-violent doesn't mean peaceful and rule abiding.
One of our goals in these police confrontations should be making them look more heavy handed than they already do.
We need to put them in dilemmas where they need to choose looking foolish or looking abusive.
That's how we get videos like that.
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They always feel they are exceptional.
Yes, a barricade can become a weapon. It obeys those who control it.
He wants to throw a weapon between the cops and the crowd and have them arm wrestle for it.
It will be interesting who is in the hand surgeon offices on Monday morning.
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What a sad day. I got to see him play Pet Sounds on its 50th Anniversary Tour and it’s one of my favorite concert moments.
Hope he finally is at peace from his struggles.
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4/4 Interact with them. Make them realize the humanity on the other side of this and keep it in their field of view. Steal away their ability to feel like a liberator from the mobs, make them feel and look like the oppressors they are.
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3/4 Have signs/banners advertising, "Hate your job? Call the GI Rights Hotline.".
Have some fun and have a dance party in front of them.
If you can find ways to get glitter, chalk, etc on their uniforms "accidentally" - they will have to spend extra time cleaning that crap. Plus they look silly.
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2/4 If you know guardsmen who are doing this, make sure they see you protest. Get in their face. Make sure people you know in the guard know you don't support what they are doing.
Make jokes of them. Try to get them to play catch with beach balls. They won't, but it may make good photos.
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1/4 We must learn what the guard is and how to fight them. These are local people with day jobs. About half may not like doing what they are. They are going to be living in tents, floors or "transitory barracks" and eating crap food. Their job is to look intimidating.
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Better look than every armchair quarterback on the internet saying it’s not a good look.
Don’t like it? Get off your ass and do better.
That’s what I thought.
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It doesn't need to even be that far. Get a bit out of Chicagoland past the burbs and most of the state is red.
They can tell you some hellish stories about things going on in the city. They haven't been there in 20 years and it's only an hour away. They could drive in for lunch and see.
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What are they actually doing? I've seen photos of them standing around. But what authority do they actually have? Have they been deputized? Can they make arrests? Can they fire on people?
This is a first in America, we'd like to know the rules or lack thereof.
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As a veteran I would be so ashamed to see our son in that background.
Hopefully he never has to go that route. We don't really encourage that career path.
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"apply to a 1-sqaure-mile area in downtown".
So everywhere else in the city is ok.
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The entire military without many restrictions on them could barely hold on to Kabul. How will they hold LA County? And NYC? And Chicago/Milwaukee? Minneapolis?
They are either flattening cities or insane. They could never keep it all occupied. Its expensive to deploy the army, even here.
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I didn’t see anything about Chicago until this afternoon and by then it was too late to get out there.
Saturday is looking like it may be large everywhere.
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Laugtivism.
Make protests funny. Throw beach balls.. wherever ;-). Get them overreacting on video.
Don't be angry. Look like you are having fun and winning. Make Trump piñatas. Bands. Give cops job fair flyers and ask them if they want a new career.
Who wants to cover people with signs?
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Hard to see from the pics, but I hope they display name and rank.
Also how are they "securing"? Are they going to open fire? Can they arrest? Will they chase us through the streets? Shoot non-lethal rounds? Should we all be keeping helmets and homemade shields in our cars just in case?
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Although we scheduled protests in response, the major city ones should have been all day parties.
It would be great to see the juxtaposition of nationwide street parties vs a drab under attended military parade.
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I keep seeing this picture. Rarely when I served in the 90s did we get hotels. Sometimes we got “transitory barracks” which were more like GI hostels.
I slept like this on school gym floors.
Not that I want to stand up for the regime, but this looks like normal army life to me.
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Make banners for the GI Rights Hotline
See if anyone they know from back home will join
And as a vet I think it would suck to have to clean pretty glitter off my gear daily. Just saying.
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So are we.
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Hey @repschneider.bsky.social and @duckworth.senate.gov can we get a soundbite?
Two words. Let’s see you do it.
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Are there any vets surprised by those pictures? That looks like normal military. I spent nights like that on school gym floors. MREs and water are easy.
But they are miserable and the protesters can definitely target that.
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Not just kindness. Fun.
We saw how they are living.
Make the protest fun. Have people in their 20s dancing. Have banners for the GI hotline.
Make the whole protest about how much fun they could be having if they weren’t sleeping on the floor of a govt building and beating people.
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Why hasn’t it been?
EOs aren’t laws. They are just as easy to say “no” to.
Unless a great opportunity for malicious compliance presents itself they should all be saying no to everything.
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A fitness event, followed by dealing with civilians all day and a parade at night.
God there must be some pissed E-4s in there.
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Is he planning on flattening all our major cities then?
Although the US military is strong, I doubt their ability to maintain control of that many disparate urban centers simultaneously. Especially with current DoD leadership.
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Bonus points if you find people they know from back home that would be willing to come to your party.
These are mostly 18-25 year olds ripped from their daily lives to do this crap. They are the moron who at work who can’t work weekends because of guard duty.
Treat them like that, not enforcers.
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Another reason why the protestors outside need to look like they are having fun.
Make banners for the GI Rights Hotline and have a dance party with 18-25 year olds right there. People their likely age. Having fun instead of sleeping in bro-piles on the floor.
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Or better yet - Make flyers for the GI Hotline. Maybe put some personal messages on there too.
Get a lot of them.
Have a bunch "blow" their direction every 30 minutes or so.
And I hope all the dancing I've been seeing is going on right in front of these guys. If not, it should be.
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Anyone holding signs referencing the "GI Rights Hotline 1-877-447-4487"
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Didn’t see a lot?
But some. He saw some.
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Then the Dems need to steal their word.
Redefine “family values”.
Claim we are the party of family values.
Not a comparison to them.
Just take it like an ICE agent takes kids and redefine it.
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Hey @governor.ca.gov and Gov Gretchen Whitmer- how is the ROI of complying in advance working out?
@govpritzker.illinois.gov has a better position than you against Trump and hasn’t licked a boot yet.