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Senior Lecturer at ANU who writes about – and sometimes sings – ballads about executions, disasters, military conflicts & politics from the 16th to the 19th century. Personal website: unamcilvenna.com
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Agreed, just be aware the framework for martial law has been set up in the attached EO likely to commence ~23 July. (This post was in response to Swalwell's msnbc interview comment that we were approaching a dictatorship & touched on Noem's unwillingness to be truthful) bsky.app/profile/brow...
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Just before the previous clip, the skater kid was practically taunting the Border Patrol agents by dancing around their munitions shots.
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It’s one of the few films that improves upon the book IMO
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I was utterly besotted 😭
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Yeah, I grew up in the Troubles in Northern Ireland: I’m very familiar with what so-called ‘less lethal’ artillery, like rubber bullets, can do to the human body. It’s why I’m so opposed to these euphemisms.
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How can something be ‘less lethal’? Something is lethal or it is not lethal.
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Now they are using flash bangs and tear gas
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LAPD is now joining the fray. They are firing rounds of less lethals