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Nuclear weapons policy, history, culture, and other things to help you sleep. Comms Director and Sr Fellow, @councilonstrategicrisks.org. Teaching and such at Harvard Extension.
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2/ "While the effects of over-militarized policing and nuclear weapons play out on much different scales, it’s essential to see the connections between the two and how they operate in the cultural milieu. "
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It’s very difficult for me to put myself in the shoes of the journalists covering this situation on the ground without mentioning routinely to a national audience the relative calm surrounding most of LA.
It simply should never be the case that a city is described as rioting when it is not.
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Be smart, be peaceful, be openly yourself in your neighborhoods and your communities.
Don't spend energy putting put the biases of conservative media ahead of what you know is right. And especially don't do it to discredit the people out there already facing unjustified bullets.
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So yes I'm again dragging everyone to realize that we're in a moment where a wide consensus is saying "ICE must be kicked out of the communities they're terrorizing"
while a ton of energy is being spent to inject "oh but the optics look bad to the minority political base, we mustn't do that"
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There is no protest tactic against this kind of state oppression that will meet with the approval of Fox viewers. There is no set of flags or chants — or people — that is A-okay for resistance.
There is truth, though, about who is making threats and who is suffering injury. And people can see it.
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Honestly surprised this flies even at CSIS. It drips of motivating reasoning and an incurious approach to, well, strategic and international studies.
I couldn't tell you better the ups/downs of (x tech)aaS than this, but I sure as hell can tell you the strategic problems it is glazing.
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Still super cool!
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And on net, and considering social algos/reach, which thing will turn off more people from signing on:
- an imperfect optic featuring various symbols and some scenes of violence
- the cynical tsk-tsking the people who are already standing up and facing the bullets for using imperfect tactics
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We do need the big wide coalition, as you said. But if Americans are so fickle as to not see solidarity unless it fits all of their priors, we're not going to get there anyway.
Personally I give real people more credit to hold nuance when the violence shows up in the way it has.
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That's not what's happening here! The problem for some folks seems to be NOT that they're anti-Mexico, or immigrants, or that neighborhood of LA -- usually the opposite!
Instead, people worry it *could* be used rhetorically, cynically, and illegitimately. That's cowardly. Stand behind principle.
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I think that's the trick -- what does it mean to fly the flag of Ukraine? Israel? Palestine? Mexico? Panama? Puerto Rico? Old Glory? CBF?
People bring their own politics to the symbol, and sometimes it's a big problem because the viewer opposes some position.
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Yeah good optics are worthwhile. But it's beyond clear the state has shocking violence in mind, and the examples are multiplying hourly.
Let's not fall in on ourselves because the deeply antagonized protests in a city of like 10,000,000 people aren't perfectly tidy. Stand up for what's right.
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... not to mention the hundreds (!) of mostly local (and personal) cases of families being broken up, coworkers being abducted, and more "regular folks" getting beat up along the way?
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- DHS needs to leave LA.
- State violence needs to be investigated and indivs prosecuted.
- Military deployments need to be investigated toward impeachment for oathbreaking.
Anything that doesn't meet these low bars is inadmissable for anyone wanting to hold office in an actual democracy.
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Or inverse: ICE is showing up for war, starting trouble, and doing it masked.
- who are they?
- where are they from?
- why are they hiding their faces?
- are these legitimate officers?
They know what they're doing is wrong, maybe illegal. The easiest "the people vs. oppressors" optic ever.
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I think the most salient piece of advice I've heard is to be your upright self in these flare ups. Be the neighbors defending the restaurant. Be the students who live around the corner. Stand up and be yourself, if you're safely able to.
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Been asking around on what the right tactic against these provocations is, and nobody really knows since this is not how things are supposed to work.
Obviously don't get goaded into something dangerous. But also obviously defend your community and neighbors.
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It's no joke!! Hope you got the paxlovid quickly
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One chance for this in a generation.
No poll-watching, no running to the right. Conviction and leadership for things worth fighting for, or a horrific defeat lasting multiple generations.
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6 months ago, today, tomorrow, all this time must be focused on repairing democracy by means of excising those who are actively destroying it.
It's not just a partisan stance to take for votes! It's literally the only path to saving any of the things that are be destroyed today.
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Getting back Congress and then bickering with the inevitable 20 reps who feel vulnerable to right wing backlash, or getting stymied by SCOTUS and letting it slide to "the voters" in x years isn't just inept / depressing, it makes any *actually realized* repairs completely non credible, home & abroad
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This means spending all of your time building that for years! To get it done and start a repair that anybody will actually believe, they need to march in with both conviction and years-long momentum, not eke by with triangulation on right wing talking points.
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This is why the Democratic party can't just sit around with their fingers to the wind!!
Getting that done, with *these* headwinds and in these courts, will require a focused political base and an unquestionably broad mandate.