carpederpum.bsky.social
1967 - current
Translator, traveller, eater of good food and drinker of wine, ruiner of otherwise perfectly good parties with acoustic guitar version of Wonderwall.
Responsibilities include: opening the door for the cat, forgetting why I came into rooms
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They're just the propaganda wing of a handful of rich assholes and assholes corporations. Why are you still listening to their garbage?
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We need to figure out what to put on next year's ping-pong paddles. So far we've got BAD MAN and TRY TO BE NICER.
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I think it's about manufacturing a view of Shitler as the leader of the military in public imaginary. With 1 trillion spent on arms this next year, one thing is certain, there will be war, a major one, possibly another global conflict. Everyone is gearing up for it. Time to move to Borneo.
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They'd kill her in a second if she wasn't so famous. They're so full of themselves and the belief that they are special and untouchable they might just go ahead and do it anyway.
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If he could go ahead and take a few more --to show his devotion to the people-- that'd be great.
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I disagree with wearing a mask to hide your face. It provides cover for infiltrators (off-duty ICE/police, Proud Boys, etc.) who are there to give the cops an excuse to use violence and heavy-handed tactics. This has been exposed scores of times here where I live. Protesters got wise to it.
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Protest that can be ignored will be ignored. There has to be some (economic/political) pain. I think the destruction of property is acceptable in certain circumstances. Just make sure you don't harm any of the people being kidnapped. That would suck for everyone.
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It's also training for the good squads.
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Citizens can make a citizen's arrest if there is reasonable suspicion a felony has been committed and evidence of the felony. We can also report crimes to the police, and, in some jurisdictions, file a criminal complaint or affidavit with a magistrate or court.
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US immigration policy is not an accident of history or geopolitics, but a carefully thought out and planned policy that creates an underclass of cheap, exploitable labour that arrives ready to work and can be mistreated, underpaid, and arrested and/or deported as soon as they become inconvenient.
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Protest that can be ignored, will be ignored.
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I've lived under several systems (USA, Spain, Germany, Peru and others). It's no contest. Socialized medicine absolutely clobbers the rest. The US health insurance mafia system is the worst. #2 is a standard market situation where you pay what things cost. Your MRI cost $350 instead of $1-6K (USA).
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Ask yourself how shitty your campaign has to be to lose to Shitler. The Ds need to stop taking the laser-thin "center" between the Ds and Rs and give the millions and millions of disenfranchised voters something to vote FOR, because AGAINST is 100% covered. The Rs went with their populist candidate.
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I do not drink coffee or tea, but I will gladly eat corn dogs with you guys, but ONLY if there is mustard.
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A national emergency is coming, no doubt, something big like 9/11 that will require a "strong response". The 1-trillion-dollar defense budget requires war. But this is just a warm up, field testing the goon squads. The parade is to paint Shitler as the leader of the military in the public imaginary.
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We've seen this film play out many times in South and Central America. SPOILER: the left fails to organize until it's much too late. Meanwhile, the right-wing goon squads are already heavily armed, have loads of resources and well-organized.
We've got one hot minute to get our shit together. One.
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Today we go once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more into the fray—undaunted by the challenges that lie before us, united in purpose and resolve, in courage and conviction. Today, we make history. Today, we retake Bed Bath & Beyond. ARE YOU WITH ME?? VICTORY OR DEATH!!
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I agree. On the other hand, protest that can be ignored, will be ignored. So there has to be at least some measure of economic/political/social pain to have a chance of achieving the goals of the protests. Otherwise it really just serves to show other people they're not alone, to build momentum.
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Here where I live, the protesters themselves "arrest" protesters who use violence. And guess what? They've been exposed as off-duty cops on several occasions. Now the protests have become very peaceful. So the masked guy who wants to start a riot is very likely ICE, LAPD, Proud Boy, etc.
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Go ahead. Try to put 20 million people in prison, fuckface. FAFO.
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They're very well prepared for violence and know how to deal with it. Don't play their game. Creative/humorous disobedience is something they don't know how to deal with. There are so many tactics. Walking in circles through crosswalks for hours, for example, can bring a whole city to a halt.
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There are no checks and balances. We're on our own. Either we fix it or nobody does.
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Shitler will definite declare Marshall Law instead of martial law. Although he might declare Marital Law.