davidmluebke.bsky.social
Historian of the Reformation, early modern world, social movements, uprisings. Helped create the permanent exhibition at Holocaust Museum in DC, ages ago. Union activist. Amateur cook and photographer. Opinions are my own, RT ≠ endorsement. 💙🌊
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For those not following the drama earlier, it's for sharing this piece advocating for nonviolence (but not being judgy about how targeted people respond either). And saying some things about governmental/ institutional violence.
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Historical data are not your friend
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If you went into Target and asked the teenager selling you a bottle of shampoo to represent 200+ clients in a complicated class action lawsuit, and they said yes, you would wind up with an experience akin to Pamela Jo Bondi being our nation's Attorney General.
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This deliberate provocation is part of the loophole Project 2025 to move America into martial law.
If protests can get portrayed as aggressive, Felon47 uses the Insurrection Act.
If not, they abuse protesters and get to martial law slower with a 3-step process: bsky.app/profile/lent...
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No resident of Portland is surprised by this.
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Before or after the regime nationalizes his companies?
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Because this was never really about saving money or finding waste; it was always only ever about replacing professionals with MAGA hacks.
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He speaks like a pre-old person
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I shudder to think what Johnson would consider "serious"
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Or can it really be that Trump believes all this bullshit about "white genocide" in South Africa, has no concept of his job as President of the United States, and thinks nothing of wrecking yet another alliance to score a point with his fellow wingnuts?
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Which raises the awkward question: what does Trump have in mind? Is he planning some kind of attack on South Africa? Given the extreme unlikelihood of that scenario, what then? A propaganda sop to the domestic far right worth such atrocious insults of a visiting foreign dignitary?
#OrangeExcrement
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Or the "Gleiwitz Incident," a manufactured false-flag attack by SS men dressed in Polish uniforms against a radio tower in the Upper Silesian town of Gliwice/Gleiwitz, which Hitler used as a casus belli for his preordained and unprovoked invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939.
#FalseFlag
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One thinks here of the tsunami of bullshit about "weapons of mass destruction" that poured forth from the administration of George W. Bush in advance our preordained and unprovoked war of aggression against Iraq in 2003.
#IraqWar
#Propaganda