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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When they announce changes of policy or practice, characterize the statements (do not quote or play clip).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.
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For best results, California should very quickly pass a law like Washington just did, to prevent out-of-state military from being deployed without permission, and then refuse the request to deploy California's National Guard. Then, he can deploy them himself with only his orders standing.
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This is an attack by the regime on the morale and allegiance of the National Guard.
Gavin must, for their sake, order them to protect the civilians from the federal agents.
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This is an attack by the regime on the morale and allegiance of the National Guard.
Gavin must, for their sake, order them to protect the civilians from the federal agents.
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The federal forces are going to have military equipment and use military tactics on civilians, with the National Guard as, at best, witnesses to atrocity.
Tyrants use atrocity to create cohesion, as participants have to convict themselves before they can turn against the regime.
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It's a story that plays out in authority structures at every scale. Every HR department has a Snowball. Sometimes Chambers of Commerce are Squealer in public and the dogs in private. Sometimes the union bosses invite the farmers to dinner, and then a change happens and they look just the same.
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My favorite example of "far left" (to give people perspective on what is 'far') is to present open borders as opt-in imperialism: anywhere that 3/4 of the people say they are American, there is America, and we'll get them some Liberty and Justice right quick.
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It's not the system they worry about, it's the culture - a trickle can be made to conform.
They say they worry about the system because they think that will convince liberals, who actually do worry about systems.
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I find it to be a false premise of a genre: young adults should be reading the best literature available, not still baby-stepping to it.
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They're gonna say ICE was trapped and feared for their lives.
They were never in danger.
If they wanted to leave, they could have released their victims and everyone would have helped them leave.
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It would double the weight of some signs, you could make flipboard signs that you can pivot over the top to reveal a second message. I recommend:
DUTY
TO
REFUSE
ORDERS
For the confrontations - a sudden change of presentation that can make some question whose plan it is and their part in it.
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So yeah, moving tanks to DC was positioning for martial law after all.
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Heel regime
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I'm starting to think all the federal agencies should be constituted from the state agencies. I'm not sure how the transfer of talent should work (don't want them sending the assholes just to get them out of the state), but I'm thinking the authority mechanisms need to be more broadly distributed.
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If we have another election without first having mass Impeachments, I'll be very happy to have been wrong about our situation 😁
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I bet that if enough Senators vote to convict P&VP, before the vote ends there'll be a vote of no confidence in the House, a new Speaker selected (to immediately become President).
They might choose the same guy again, but it wouldn't surprise me if they look outside the House - the field is open.
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It is probably not one-and-done - it likely takes prompt after prompt before he gets to something he can start whittling and refilling to get to the point of sharing it.
But I've not seen it, cannot guess his standards - certainly it could be just 2-3 prompts a week.
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The message that unites this nation is Liberty and Justice for All.
Convenient that it is also the message that fights fascism and inspires respect from other nations. If we can't get a political party to support that message, I bet it'll make a great message around which to unite a new one.
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Seems simple:
When they hurt people or threaten to hurt people, cover the victims.
When they announce real changes, such as policy, practice, position, characterize their statements (do not quote, do not play the clip).
All else is trash-talk and should be ignored - at most briefly characterized.
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Freedom of the Press requires that the press be free from the influence of business owners. News outlets should not be investment opportunities, they should be publicly funded worker co-ops wherein there is no privileged position that decides 'the message' of the product.
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I'm pretty sure the self-awareness of my ignorance disqualifies me. This administration requires the belligerently, unflinchingly ignorant.