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D.Douglas Woods,BA²MS, Ambidexterous, Author, Biologist, Bisexual, Cancer Researcher, CNY, Disabled, Eclectic, Folklorist, immunocompromised/RA/JIA/ILD, Mac Morgan, Mom, Polyfaithed, Polyhistor, Polytheist, Pyrrhonist,Widowed23Oct23 from cancer.
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We have untrained morons in charge of security, and we have a president who is either a foreign asset or acts exactly as a foreign asset would. We cannot keep visitors to the USA safe from terrorism, and we are reaping what we sow. I'm sorry, it's not safe here for us.
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I'd expect Trump to cheat at that point.
America is under occupation from a government elected by a minority of her citizens in an increasingly questionable looking election, with the world's richest man saying he alone is responsible for the results. Our data is hacked, our laws are lies. Avoid us
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GOP are the empty niche at Battle of Saratoga Monument.
[Four heroes saved the day, and there are 4 niches in the monument to celebrate them, N,S,E,W
One niche lacks a statue because while Benedict Arnold was a hero *that day*, turning traitor changes how anything you ever did should be seen.]
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Non-violent protest works when the people protesting have value to the people being protested (or have value to the media and can be sold to the public as having value.)
When the situations being protested are created by a man in an end of life syphilis delirium, all bets are off.
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You are correct.
Non-violent protest only works when the people protesting non-violently are considered to have value by those being protested. Your factory workers, your nannies, "The Help."
Both Gandhi and MLK pointed this out repeatedly, btw.
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Stonewall wasn't exactly a peaceful protest, either.
Trump is still super mad that no one will sell him 23 Wall Street, and the building is scarred from the 1920 bombing.
THEY INTENTIONALLY never replaced that facade because people *died.*
Don't tell me burning a cop car is *violence.*
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I still think it should be entrance of the gladiators...
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The same one people call a pimp but we'd call a human trafficker and predator... stealing girls out of tribal villages and selling them to miners in Dawson City or calling them the entertainment in his brothels.
He tried to move back to Bavaria but the country refused because he was a draft dodger.
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Of course Trump finds that terrifying. Have you seen him dance?
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When the National Guard arrests people they'll call a leaf blower a deadly weapon.
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Go look at how they got onto the roads. LAPD invited them after LAPD closed it. I suspect it was because highways are federal property, but the National Guard couldn't get there in their little soldier trucks.
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The FatbackShirts
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There was, indeed.
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as soon as his tanks are ensconced around the White House
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The LAPD shut it down and told the protesters it was so they could protest there... so they could hit an arrest quota. Most people knew it was a trap, bc the National Guard can clear any highway with a blue sign as a federal highway...
The overpass and exits and entrances are not safe, either.
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Don't forget blocking traffic after LAPD closed the road and gave the okay to enter the highway... total escalatory behavior.
All that petitioning the government for a redress of grievances crap is totally verboten, where on Earth did they get the idea that was okay, some obscure amendment?
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And he's bringing a crapload into DC under the pretense of a celebration.
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The highway was a trap from the moment LAPD closed it. RULE #? of protesting: Never go into an alley, a limited access road or plaza or fence, especially if the cops say it is acceptable... its a limited exit zone to cage and arrest you. Judges will toss the arrest, but injuries occur.
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I think there is only one thing that will save us... Never before have so many wished so hard for someone to die of natural causes.
I still think no one has told him that a death in office will mean an autopsy that's public record. No burial in his backyard, everyone will know about the syphilis.
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Even if permitted onto the road, stay off. In LA, the cops shut down the highway, then used it to set a pincer move to arrest the people for disrupting traffic.
a good judge will throw the arrests out, but that won't erase injuries.
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My sense is that what is happening in LA is about moving the Overton Window.
If he can normalize threatening to use Marines, federalizing the Guard without gubernatorial approval, and misusing federal powers in response to minor protests, he sets expectations for what he "can" do during major ones.
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I still think he's too addled to know what he's doing, his current handler is to blame for most things. Not sure who it is, but they are not smart.
I feel this military parade, which any sane president would find extra cringe, is just a charade to bring weapons in.
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It's that Overton Window thing. If you don't compare the shifts, you don't perceive a change.
So people really needed to go "how will I know when he's gone too far."
Since a military parade is my own second plane moment, I'm getting agitated. Only dictators march like an occupation force.
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Earlier in Trump's reign, I kept telling people to write down what would be their 2nd plane moment, the thing where they *knew* it's not accidental, but Trump's doing it on purpose out of authoritarianism, not incompetence. Without a note to keep it in mind, we all will never know when it is here.
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I'd prefer we just tossed them out for having the idea that a person who votes for them is a win, no matter how expendable they are treated otherwise, but the GOP is currently profit driven to keep people uninformed. uneducated, sick and angry.
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I believe life is inherently valuable, but the GOP does not. Because they no longer value the lives of workers, it is acceptable to them to keep people dumb knowing that the undereducated are more likely to vote GOP.
if a form of dead peasant insurance existed, it is not acceptable.
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Because unsafe neighborhoods, etc, would be less profitable for the government, dead peasant insurance gives the government a reason (profit) to improve quality of life. It gives everyone a value even if the government doesn't believe life is inherently valuable.
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But since the dead peasant insurance would be paid by the government, their pay-in would go up the riskier your life was, meaning the government would lose more money from unsafe neighborhoods, Cancer clusters, food deserts, etc.
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SovCits, for example, think dead peasant insurance makes so much sense that they believe every American essentially already has it. We don't, but if we did, the government would have life insurance on you, as a peasant, based on how long you could work. if you died early, insurance would recoup.
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Right now, if you aren't going to pay into the system, the right wing would rather you died. This is why you gut health and safety people.
The solution, since the right wing can't learn to think like humans, might be dead peasant insurance.
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As an example, the USA was actively hurt by COVID denialism, a vaccine that cost a few bucks might cost the population over $100,000 per day in the ICU... right wing elites were profiting from ICU stays.
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The idea that if parents didn't understand it, it was bad was embraced by right-wing elites as a selling point, but these sort of foundational math concepts actually help people better understand scale, growth, basic statistics, etc. A populace who knows these things is harder to lie to.
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The reason they were removed was because they were felt to not teach a skill that was "usable" and because parents didn't understand them. Parents, not educators, were part of the push. Common core math, which would teach multiple ways to solve a problem, was similarly attacked...
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For people with math anxiety, learning a new set of symbols and using letters is refreshing, and, unlike algebra, they aren't temporary stand-ins for numbers. The skills they teach cross every course, breaking facts down into a simple format and evaluating them is a vital skill.
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You be amazed how many people think that when an algorithm delivers them only one side, it is because there is only one side... Especially people who rely on one source for all info and don't even know why it is bad to use only one source.
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I'm not fully on board with that. Media silos are real. For some, they didn't think they were voting for this because they were too dumb, too gullible, too sick, or too exhausted to know to read otherwise.
A good way to handle the situation is to ask why they think they were able to be duped...
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Bernie Sanders could be standing in front of the dictator's firing squad, and he'd still be concerned about the rise of authoritarianism.
It is really hard for some to know when it's not rising, but it is here. Similarly, when a group you're used to defending turns bad, or a bad one gets worse.
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I don't see anyone as uneducated. I know some folks with nothing but a GED who are more educated than most, and folks who allegedly have advanced degrees that are not educated enough to make them less prone to manipulation than your average non-degree holder. (If I was unclear.)