One of the reasons police like to kettle protestors is that it's much harder to put down protests if the protestors aren't all in one place. They don't have the manpower to cope with scattered protests, let alone the manpower to storm every polling place. - ThreadSky

weirwoodtreehug.bsky.social • 3 days ago

One of the reasons police like to kettle protestors is that it's much harder to put down protests if the protestors aren't all in one place. They don't have the manpower to cope with scattered protests, let alone the manpower to storm every polling place.

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nonsense-opinions.bsky.social•3 days ago

They can't defend everywhere, yes. That does not mean they can't disrupt enough places. Those are two very different problems.

weirwoodtreehug.bsky.social•3 days ago

So, you agree that Trump can't just cancel the midterms? Because that was the subject of the post.

nonsense-opinions.bsky.social•3 days ago

No, it was "prevent elections." Violent disruption would be sufficient to prevent elections. American poll workers are not going to be willing to risk police violence to hold elections without a ton of cultural preparation between now and then.

weirwoodtreehug.bsky.social•3 days ago

Where have you been? Poll workers are already doing their jobs in the face of violence. It's the university administrators and big law senior partners who are too scared to face fascist's wrath. Poll workers are brave.

nonsense-opinions.bsky.social•3 days ago

They certainly are, violence backed by a barely accountable to unaccountable civil authority depending on location is a different matter than sporadic paramilitary violence. If there is cultural preparation beforehand, if they are not blindsided by the possibility, I have every confidence in them.

nonsense-opinions.bsky.social•3 days ago

Without that? Without a prepared population at their backs? They will be few enough that they can be carted off regardless of their willingness to fight.

To be clear, I don't think that path is likely to end well for the enemy.

nonsense-opinions.bsky.social•3 days ago

* Not in sufficient numbers to actually hold elections, to be clear.

credle.bsky.social•3 days ago

Do you want to be the only police precinct or military unit that took the obviously immoral, unconstitutional, and illegal orders to assault and detain government and community leaders in your district or state while everyone else saw those orders and decided to 'pretend they didnt get the email?'

nonsense-opinions.bsky.social•3 days ago

Well, when you probably aren't going to face lasting consequences, the conservative martyr-industrial-complex will kick you up to a millionaire, and the orders are coming after a dozen years of increasingly deranged anti-election propaganda? I think those odds are worth hedging against.

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