markpline.bsky.social
Erstwhile polymath and polyglot. Militantly Autistic. Vocally antifascist and anti-imperialist since the Johnson administration. Feminist. LGBTQIA+ ally. he/him
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TACO
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How long before France starts supporting a one-state solution? No, the other state.
States can and do squander their right to exist.
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The Dems have been part of the problem since 1992 and will ultimately fall when the Musk/Miller regime falls.
In the democratic successor state to follow, the overton window should be allowed to cover the entire political spectrum, and we should have a pluralistic, parliamentary system.
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too late, though. the Dems have been controlled by neoliberals since 1992. neoliberals are corporate fascists, by definition. corporate fascists are fascists. fascists are not antifascists.
if we're lucky, this regime will fall the way the iron curtain fell.
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We call justices "conservative" so that we don't have to call them fascist. We need to stop normalizing that shit. All five "conservative" justices are card-carrying fascists.
And yeah, the successor state to the US will need a new Constitution, drafted from scratch.
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Why would anybody fantasize that Trump is running the government? He couldn't run a lemonade stand. Musk and Miller are running the government. (By their policies shall ye know them...)
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The Dems were never your friends. Not since 1992.
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Fuck that. What happens when the AI hallucinates?
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Well yeah. The point of all the firings of federal employees is that they're going to be "replaced" by AI. Can't wait for the AI air traffic controllers to be deployed.
"Alexa, what's a good runway for me this morning?"
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what's he saying about ligibitiqua rights?
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are they selling the plane or gifting it?
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When the fascist governments of the Eastern Bloc countries fell (starting in about 1989, a bit earlier in Poland), it was because up to 6% of the population was on the streets for weeks and months. That would be something like 20 million Americans. It can happen, but it's gonna need a serious spark.
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"Next three years" is irrelevant. We're stuck with this regime until it falls (however, whenever) because they have no reason to allow free and fair elections.
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Such people are not allowed to be known nationally. Otherwise, we'd already have our Lech Walesa.
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Conlangs.
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If it quacks like a duck...
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The Iron Curtain fell because up to 6% of the entire population of Eastern Bloc nations were on the streets, over weeks & months.
So I guess I'll not worry too much about less federal law enforcement until this regime falls. The rule of law no longer applies, and these agencies are out of control.
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And if the rule of law still applied, something could be done about that. But it doesn't, so it can't, until the regime falls.
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Lord save us from the fucking pseudointellectuals.
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Exactly.
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Yes, since 1992. Many of us have been saying so all along, and Dems have generally told us to STFU. So here we are.
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This is moronic. Can you control your grip on reality? Apparently not.
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These bans are being proposed by the party that says it loves freedom *this much*, right? Keep the government out of rugged individuals' lives?
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She's a South American gang member. She said herself that that's how it works.
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Really? You're asking how a white supremacist could ever be ... a white supremacist? In this ethnic/racial love fest of a country we have?
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I think their pretense was that they were "keeping the family together" when they deported the non-citizen parents.
But yeah, that's pretty thin. And ALL deportations would be subject to due process if the rule of law still applied (which it doesn't).
This is all just gestapo stuff.
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Right. I didn't really mean "basis", I meant "pretense". And I agree that at some point, they're not even going to bother with pretense.
At least I'm old and won't have a whole lifetime destroyed if they send me to the death camps.
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I was looking at Ghost in case I wanted to have an anonymous account. But at this point, they'll happily send me to a concentration camp on the basis of my past social media footprint anyway, once they really get their pogrom into full swing. So I'll prolly just start a new Wordpress blog.
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She thinks she's Liam Neeson?
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Oh, that's easy. If you're a white newborn and your parents are unwoke cishet citizens and speak American, you're a citizen. Otherwise you have no right to be here and will be sent to the concentration camps.
What.
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blocked the faux-progressive gatekeeper.
"Show us on the doll where you were raped as a prison inmate."
BTW you're now my ::checks notes:: "liberal friend".
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k bye
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I wasn't joking about prison rape. I was assuming he'd be consensually popular.
I note that your mind went immediately to rape, though. That's fucking pathetic, right?
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I wish they would reinforce The Way Things Work in their public statements. "She's innocent, and this will become obvious if this goes to trial" would have been adequate, even in terms of optics. I think.
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Why would a lawyer frame it like that, saying she's going to prove her innocence? The prosecutors have to prove her guilt, right? Or have I always been confused about how that's supposed to work...
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thanks!
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Thanks. That's what I thought, but I worried that I'm naive as a non-lawyer (that I might start normalizing the fascism like so many others). I always thought warrantless = bad, but recently learned that Border Patrol can apparently legally detain people at the border for any reason (or no reason).
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*unvaccinated autistic kids
or
*autistic kids who are unvaccinated
or
*unvaccinated kids who are autistic
(for the same reason that you're not a person with female or a woman with heterosexuality (or whatever))
Thanks. #ActuallyAutistic
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😂
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Apart from anything else, did ICE have a warrant for the arrest of the immigrant Dugan perfectly legally released from her own courthouse?
Does ICE theoretically need a warrant for that? (Not that they are ever going to care about legality of their own actions.)
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In 5...4...3...2...1...
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He'll be okay. He'll be very popular in prison.
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I maybe I was unclear. I was saying that China should easily be able to import enough pork from EU, Canada, Brazil and Chile to meet their demand after cutting off pork imports from the US.
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Maybe multiple deals with the same country? Still no reason to believe the claim, but they've left it slightly more spinnable.
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Arresting judges changes nothing at this point, because the federal judiciary has no way to enforce rulings and contempt findings.
I think the "not all is lost as long as we still have the courts" mindset is denialist. We don't still have the courts. We lost them when Bondi and Noem were confirmed.
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The EU is the largest exporter of pork worldwide anyway. Along with Canada, Brazil and Chile, I'm pretty sure they can pick up the slack.
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Corporate fascism.