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Ran product management and UX. Now I write a blog and attempt fiction. I try not to be a jerk. #WFWA, Princeton Comp Lit/Columbia MBA, happily married. If you repost my comments to incite a dogpile, or DM me without acquaintance, I block you.
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And let's not even mention Italian strikes
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Blocking you. Absolutely no value, use or good in what you say here
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The BBC is being extraordinarily irresponsible in taking ICE's reports as the truth, and making no effort (as far as I've seen) to speak to local Los Angeles and California officials
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But that hasn't happened yet and can't be polled for and is therefore just speculation!
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In SF we had and are having huge protests. The mayor had 100+ people detained. But he's managing it without the National Guard and Marines being called, and it's much less chaotic and more focused. There is a role for law. Very, very, very tricky time right now.
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Like I said, they sometimes overstep as do all police forces. But at this point, the Democratic leadership is treading a careful line in fighting Trump and also preventing illegal mayhem.
Without police action, we're right into military rule. Weird, but true.
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...people who identify as "anarchists," etc., replace the more issues-based protestors, and cause damage for the joy of breaking things. That's far fewer people than the authentic protestors, but it happens and the police have to deal with it to allow the authentic protestors to keep going
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The LAPD has to clear the streets, because otherwise it's a pretext for Trump to send in more troops. TBH, yes, the LAPD sometimes oversteps in their methods. But in this case, the local authorities had to act to keep the military out.
It's also true that in these protests, as the night wears on,
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Sorry for my fervor, but I live in California, have family in LA, and have been following this hour by hour. In my opinion, California's leadership is doing more than almost any other Democratic officials in the country.
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To blame this on California's Democratic leadership, when the LAPD and the governor are speaking up, and the Attorney General has filed suit, is absurd. I'm no fan of Newsom, but what was he going to do, tell the National Guard to stand down against orders from the President?
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FFS sake the Democrats have been decrying violence like the Four Horsemen are coming
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Among other things, yes. Like what Newsom is doing for California right now. Trump and his Project 2025 cohort have built and now run a media machine. We need a narrative war, as I heard someone on Instagram say.
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You are my hero. If George Washington had agreed to become king, I'd be a duchess (seriously, Dames of Cincinnatus). You are my American hero.
Thank you for speaking up.
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More public speaking
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Why thank you!
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Thank you!
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It isn’t just the Democrats, there is something in the culture of this site that results in elected Democratic Members of Congress who get in ICE’s face in person in LA and take part in the demonstrations there getting 50 reposts while David’s utter nonsense gets thousands
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Absolute and resolute loathing. I agree.
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Marching on the streets of San Francisco!
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We would tell kids in kindergarten, "I know she spit at you, but no hitting. Talk to the teacher and they will figure it out."
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Reminder: More than 70% of Israelis want Netanyahu to resign and his coalition has polled terribly since before October 7, which is why he will do everything possible to avoid facing the voters. He knows that if he does, he probably loses.
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From now on, you could just say, "Because voting"
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Meanwhile in San Francisco the mayor arrested a whole bunch of protestors without any help whatsoever
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Absolutely disgusting
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my big point in all of this is not “these things are impossible” but that even the most ambitious authoritarians have to contend with institutional constraints, questionable internal support and loyalty, and the decision-making of ordinary people within and outside the government
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You think? I mean, I wouldn't be surprised, but also looks like it was maybe already broken and they are just taking out the windshield?
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Congratulations!