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They lack vision - they know their circumstance is bad, but can't tell which way they should run.
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The low-hanging fruit of sane immigration policy:
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It might not be legal to conduct citizen's arrests on ICE and regime members and render them to an ICC-compliant nation for pick-up, but it is a due process, so is infinitely more legitimate than what they are doing.
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To triangulate: the protest movement does not need martyrs, and we'll definitely get them even if we try our best not to, so don't go thinking you have to take what is dished so others won't.
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It would be wonderful just to have a single show that held its guests to any standard of credibility. Sure, some try to only have on credible guests, but efforts at correction died out in the late '90s, and it was a great public disservice. FOMO and Better Safe than Sorry sabotaged accountability.
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Mark the moment the waiting stopped: when the crowd stopped, wind blown, milling around the body in the floor and realizing no one was willing to take a bullet for this - when he knew all that remained was a display of weakness, then he told them that he loved them and that they would try again.
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To say impeachment is partisan is to say that the Framers intended that eventually a party would dominate and purge. I think it's safe to say that's not what they had in mind.
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I think they had this, as well as imminent escalation, in mind when they arranged to have tanks in DC for the occasion.
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They're fishing for civilian accomplices to mass murder - depressurizing the hold is a fine gas chamber, very discreet.
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He's auditioning for the role of Mengele.
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Being in a bubble leads to loss of perspective; excessive and prolonged loss of perspective leads to derangement. The necessity of more than one point-of-view to identifying distance is as relevant conceptually as it is geometrically - they now discern only direction, and so cannot assess relevance.
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Citizen's arrests and trafficking them into the custody of ICC might not be legal, but it is due process, and infinitely more legitimate than what they are doing.
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Our government drives the economy by giving net credit to producers and net tax debt to labor, but we could just as well give credit to consumers and debt to passive income. One of these models is a lot less inherently coercive than the other.
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Even if they had no further need for resources, they would still seek to extract opportunity from the economy so that their permission trumps all else. They can't store opportunity, and their high scores represent our squandered potential.
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Leave alone what they say and respond to why they said it.
"Jim is lying about Republicans to cover their thirst for power, and he's lying about protestors because he wants power over them. Jim's values are antithetical to Liberty and Justice for All because he wants to be exclusive about 'All'."
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You should stop pretending that they were ever authentically presenting their own values - at best, they present the argument they want you to have, leading you by your principled credulity, but more often it's just trash-talk fanservice to their base.
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Domestic entities are just as harmful with our information, bespoke exploitation and propaganda for their private gain at best - at worst, any list can become a hit list.
The only way to protect our privacy is to criminalize the indiscriminate collection, collation, or storage of personal data.
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A free press must be free from demands of shareholders.
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McCarthy's trip to Mar-a-Lago would never have mattered to our politics if not for the press eagerly reclaiming the teat of sensationalism.
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When they hurt people or threaten people, focus on the victims.
When they announce changes of policy or practice, characterize the statements (do not quote or play clip).
All else is best ignored - at most briefly characterized.
Do not repeat the fascist signals even to attack them. Stifle it.
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This should be the first of many federal agencies reconstituted by federating the state agencies.
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Newsom should arrest Homan and put him straight on a jet to the ICC.
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Might I interest you in the No Kings Party?
(I mean, it's not a thing yet, but the threat of making it a thing might scare the Democrats into acting right.)
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I was just thinking this should happen at protests - a peaceful way to demonstrate the capacity for organized maneuvers.
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They should be writing and filing impeachment articles for all the accomplices to illegal orders, not just the one on top.
They should be writing legislation to repair the harms caused, including restitution to the harmed, and reforms to prevent the abuses now revealed possible.
Demonstrate values
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I've imagined two good, though unlikely, excuses:
1) The paraders are hand-picked for willingness to kill protestors.
2) The paraders have their own most-excellent protests planned.
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In-group values subvert all others.
"Fairness in our group, of course; fairness in their group, certainly. Fairness between groups, ridiculous."
The self-determination of the out-group must ever give way.
At each new layer of in-group the traditions of the last are suborned, and authority accrues.
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We need to start having citizen's arrests of ICE and administration members followed by involuntary delivery to the International Criminal Court.
It's a taste of their own medicine while being infinitely more legitimate and in service to Liberty and Justice for All.
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When the official line is "Comply now, complain later," and complaints are systematically misprosecuted, you are in a police state, just one that, for now, finds it convenient to parade in the skin of Rule of Law.
Law is now only a weapon for the powerful to use against the powerless.
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Also, one party ran on 'The government is the problem', so they had a vested interest in sabotaging government services by, e.g., means testing.
Everything that faces voters is a demoralizing chore, while everything that faces business or foreign entities seems to run smooth and quiet.
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It doesn't specify whose rebellion: if the regime is conducting a rebellion against the Constitution, I guess that counts too. /s
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I've been working on a grand strategy board game, and trying to elucidate guiding principles for each part of grand strategy.
The Rule of Tactics: Knowing is half the battle; the other half is making them pay for every error.
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The Rule of Politics: There will always be opposition.
Corollary: When total victory becomes the goal, it ceases to be politics and becomes war (though it likely starts as rhetorical positioning for war).
Fascists want total victory, so they do not get to be in the club. Likewise theocrats, et al.
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When some Transformers love each other very much, they find a piece of machinery they like the look of and they gangbang it. Gestation occurs while continuing to perform its function - many young Transformers don't awaken until the system they're a part of is disrupted.
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Let's compromise: citizens' arrest and take him to the ICC.
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This is state terrorism against its own citizens.
This is an immoral sacrifice of America's values so the rage and hate of a few can devour the joy of the many.
This is an attack on the foundations of America, Liberty and Justice for All, a betrayal of all the sacrifices since the Boston Massacre.
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Apply something like Chess's ELO scoring based on Likes (with Likes weighted according to the score of the Liker) as a metric by which to order posts in feeds and replies. Allow people to purchase temporary boosts to their score, increasing the position of their content in feeds.
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This is where I find it using my desktop browser - I've not used the mobile version, and know not what horrors are there wrought.
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Turns out, they were just against bureaucracy - the want nothing between the people and the malarchs' whims.
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A bully trying to scare victims away from the treehouse the bully can't get into: "It's haunted! Heights cause cancer!"
Every part of our culture that tries to appeal to everyone is bad for our culture - mass-marketing doesn't express or promote the culture's values, it extracts and propagandizes.
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I bet that when the company shuts down all the cars brick.
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The principles that united us in the past are Liberty and Justice for All.
In-group adherents undermine the definition of 'All' to quietly append "of us, but not those nasty out-groups - they don't count as people".
Treat a member of the in-group like one of the out-group: dissonance, not empathy.
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The FBI wanted to check Georgia's central election computer for evidence of breach, but Georgia destroyed the system rather than let it be inspected.
Georgia then reformed its election systems, to no longer depend on a central, unsecured-but-connected computer.
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So, my answer is 'yes', but only because I remember that which others might have to look up (Georgia's all-important unsecured computer).
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Funny: it was just yesterday, with the events in LA and the National Guard deployment, that I realized the parade was definitely just an excuse to get tanks into DC prior to declaring martial law.
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It's also about using atrocity to build cohesion in service to tyranny: the participants must convict themselves before they can turn against the regime.
Even if the National guard doesn't actively participate, they will certainly bear witness to atrocities, and that will begin their self-loathing.
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Rebuilding is a pimp's paradise, as seen during Reconstruction.
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Sounds to me like the infighting is actually caused by their response to David Hogg.
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I'm quite concerned that Gavin's resistance is purely performative - he has levers to pull.