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Let’s also be real about who helped him buy it.
Twitter launched the Arab Spring — so the Saudis paid to kill Twitter. www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10...
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The symbolism is rich, robust, and deeply un-American. <end>
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And it ends at the White House not the Capitol. Symbolically it the route is troops called from the Barracks/General Staff to render obeisance to the King, while demonstrating how the King can call in troops to awe the cities. 9/
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The parade today by contrast moves west to east, outside to in. It starts at the Pentagon not Arlington National Cemetary. It follows the symbolic route of troops entering to quell or occupy the city, not leaving with love and thanks. 8/
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But the symbolizing is always that having called on and drawn a military from the Citizenry, the nation is returning the servicememebers to the citizenry, or sending them to rest, with its thanks. 7/
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And that (on the mourning route) we proceed from the people's thanks in their Hall past places of memory to places of eternal rest and thanks. 6/
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Among them: the military arises from the citizenry and serves the citizenry, that the citizens are thanking and welcoming the Army back to home and civic life (symbolically and often practically, these are demobilizing parades), 5/
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The Gulf War victory parade followed the mourning route, a break with tradition. But it still began symbolically at the seat of the People's branch of government and moved outward. Symbolically, this encodes many mutually reinforcing meetings. 4/
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Much more somber were the interment marches for the remains of Unknowns from WW1, 2, Korea and Vietnam. These began with the Unknown lying in state in the Capitol rotunda, moved down Constitution zace along the Mall, and over the Memorial Bridge to Arling Cemetary on the hill to the west. 3/
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The first mass parade, celebrating Union Victory in the Civil War, followed the Inaugural procession route outwards down Pennsylvania Ave. WW1 and WW2 victory parades followed the same route. 2/
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Guy impersonating cops. This is on you Mike Johnson.
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In the end there was no mass exodus from X. It became normalized like every other nightmare development of the past few years.
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i want you to practice saying it. “i am invoking my right to remain silent and will not answer questions without an attorney present.” say it out loud. it sounds so simple but when the moment comes, you forget. you’ll be stressed, scared, confused, & want to explain yourself. don’t. it won’t help.
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I've written a great deal abt this relationship between white conservatism, vigilantism, & police violence. This passage from my review of Richardson's Democracy Awakening summarizes what is in fact a DEFINING FEATURE of American history. buckscountybeacon.com/2024/03/heat...
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We haven't seen a regime like this since the Jim Crow state-level governments of the early-mid 20th century, which promoted both vigilante & state lawlessness & violence against civil rights agitators & Black Southerners more broadly. That is essentially what we're seeing from the GOP today.
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I would like to be wrong abt this. I would like for white conservatism to accept dissent & respect the rights & ideas of others. I would love to live in an actual democracy. Until we actually address the problem of chronic right wing lawlessness, however, all the rest is just wishful thinking.
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The water in the frog pot has boiled over and is sizzling on the stovetop
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Pay attention to which (if any) "law enforcement" figures or orgs publicly condemn the assassin and their methods. In a functional democracy, it would be every single one of them, and you'd be hearing it everywhere already. The question is how short of that mark things will end up falling.