technicalsquirrel.bsky.social
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The "states rights" crowd sure is stone-silent on this one!
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These were almost certainly selected as Trump friendlies by a spineless general officer.
Doesn't really make it better.
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The only people who think he's an asshole are people who expect participation trophies for losing an argument.
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Stancil is always in the right. Sometimes he fucks up his sense of timing and proportion. But this is not one of those times.
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I hope you're mocking what you're quoting here. It's getting harder to tell irony from earnestness these days.
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God I am tired of these assholes. He knows it's bullshit. Who is this even for.
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There are some who will cheer for a spectacle just because spectacles are fun.
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Yes but don't forget to say "I didn't leave the left, they left me". And then go be what you always were.
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It's goddamn heartbreaking, is what it is.
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The conclusion here shouldn't be "and so they won't do it", but rather "and this is how Russia gets what it paid for".
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Significant chance that Steven Miller didn't read that far.
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Ah. So that's why they chose the Marines.
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yeah
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If Newsom didn't mobilize the CNG, then who did?
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Oh no, let's not add this bullshit to everything else that's going on.
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As it should be.
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You can find historical precedent in anything if you look hard enough. Assuming it's predictive is a fool's game.
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There is a reason the regime has been consciously using the language of invasion, infiltration, and describing immigrants as "military-age males with cartel ties".
This country will tolerate a lot of murder if you convince people the targets are terrorists.
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I'm suggesting that it may look different from the cases of "dictator orders military to fire on civilians and then falls".
Maybe it looks like "military police believe they're being attacked and we have a different situation".
And maybe some chaos agents are working to create that situation.
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It won't look like Lt. Calley ordering fire on civilians.
It will be a masked Proud Boy popping off some shots and the National Guard (many who are cops) thinking, we're justified in defending ourselves.
I'm telling you, don't sleep on the me-too militias and agents-provocateurs.
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lol what
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You need to understand that in some areas, the day job of half the NG is some sort of police or other thing that flies the black-and-blue flag.
Remember the militarization of police? It's not all tac vests and surplus MRAPs.
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Depends which units get activated.
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What if it's not the California National Guard? What if they bring in another state under 502(f) as Trump did in DC for the George Floyd protests?
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When I served in the NG it was probably about half cops and firemen.
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What they'll do is strip entire states of electoral votes. They will provoke California into some state of noncompliance, then declare them to be "basically in rebellion against the US" and expel their reps, etc.
I've expected this for a long time, and it seems to be kicking into gear as of today.
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The word you're looking for is "apartheid state".
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I mean... Serbia very notably got its shit bombed for being a genocidal ethnostate?
Brianna Wu's character arc has taken a very strange and dumb turn.
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This is... kind of a disservice to Phang's point about human beings being disappeared into foreign prisons on fraudulent charges?
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She's not distracted or confused. She knows she's lying for clicks and donations.
Progressives and leftists will platform any and every Nazi who trashes Dems.
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Apparently progressives love Steve Bannon now! What a world
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Kat, which Dem said they were thinking of allying with Elon Musk? Be specific and provide sources other than vibes, please.
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And never stop kicking.
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I have deep concerns about this, because I feel these funds are better spent on massive numbers of 155mm artillery shells, which is a proven superior way of protecting hospitals.
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You can't defy someone who has no authority!
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Every single thing you do online or on the phone goes through a data center, and it's been that way since the 1990s at least.
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I had forgotten the name Michael Tracey entirely until I read this.
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Oh that's her grift, I was wondering when it would show itself.
Dems sure love to make money knifing Dems!
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Definitely a tantrum. He didn't get what he wants. But now I wonder if the bill contains something that threatens Musk or his interests.
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The Dems are rotten with fair-weather-friends and Republican plants. It's just the anteroom to book deals and TV guest appearances.
Starting to come around the idea that this party is simply sliding irrecoverably to destruction or fascist collaboration. If insiders won't stop it, can anyone?
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You have now become the joke.
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His principles are exactly "America good, big government bad, elites silly". Shouldn't surprise anyone.
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He's the designated contrarian this week. It won't last.
In 2024 he will clear his throat and say "while a third Trump term is troubling in several significant ways, this pales in comparison with the threat of AOC, a socialist who was elevated solely because of her gender and ethnicity".
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Oh my god, bluesky truly is the home of people who can't detect a joke.