miffedinparticular.bsky.social
Environmental scientist with some phil-bio interest. Liberal democracy supporter. It's a long way to Alderaan.
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If search engines are really too suspect for even this, then here’s what I’d propose: Go to some local political meeting on your municipality/county website (you could also probably find this info at the muni building) like a commission or school board meeting. Ask around there.
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It means that people inside the US (whether legally or not) have the same 4th amendment protections as citizens.
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No. That’s not how the constitution works. Once you enter the US you are under the US’s jurisdiction and are granted the same rights and responsibilities as everyone else.
Shaughnessy v. United States
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I’ve been waiting for a chance to re-use this hyperspecific meme.
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Yeah, can they at least make a Death Star or something this time?
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I’m sorry to say that he does not accurately represent American politics at the moment.
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I really hope you’re right and some small part of me wants to agree. Simultaneously, what of the Republican Party? Can they be said to be losing in similar fashion?
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We used to make fun of c-suite boomers who couldn’t rotate a PDF but now a zoomer has all of our social security numbers and he needs an LLM to convert an excel to PDF.
Jesus Christ alive.
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Wannabes have…the former president of South Korea being the most recent example. Trump in 2021 was at least waylaid as was Hitler during the Bier Hall Putsch.
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rule number one about building a movement is Be Fucking Approachable and that means Being Legible and frankly the flag is 10,000x more legible to the normies than just about any other symbol
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There's been a lot of robber baron ass kissing (and plotting more fiscally reckless giveaways to them that we’ll all pay for) and defending pardons of cop-beaters—but that's not what Western Pennsylvanians want. (2/2)
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Congresspeople should not get themselves arrested. That’s just not where they’re useful. They’re useful as figureheads and most importantly as votes.
Let someone else do that if it comes to it.
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I see only one aligned political organization big enough to take this task on no matter how it may play out in the coming days, weeks, months, and years.
We have unity of vision—the removal of the treasonous men who have worked their ways into our highest offices.
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Hard disagree. There’s a reason WaPo (Jeff Bezos) published this—to fracture resistance.
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I do local work and honestly I rarely know what to assign people. There’s door knocking and campaigns or local committees *should* have lists available when it’s that time. Otherwise, run yourself and the committee might be able to help. Local campaigns might also need treasurers/managers.
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I don’t have good answers, much less ones that make one feel good, but Dems will not have a media presence because the media is owned by billionaires.
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I share in large part with this sentiment.
Simultaneously, if, as many of those suddenly in my mentions seem to suggest, Dems act like Republicans have, then they guarantee that the republic is dead. Perhaps it is.
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I think you grossly misjudge my attitude, but ok.
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He’s the minority leader. They’re the minority party. There isn’t much they can do apart from sue, which they are doing.
As Trump violates the constitution there’s only one formal body that can stop him—the military. (He can pull a Jackson and ignore SCOTUS.)
What’s Jeffries to do?
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Will, this just isn’t true
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If they aren’t functioning, then the money in your account will be worthless anyway.
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I guess if they agreed without coercion AND were given appropriate representation, I don’t particularly oppose it. Neither of these will happen under DJT.
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My estimate is somewhere late spring/early summer. People become more mobile and agitated, and who knows, maybe he’ll time an invasion for after the spring mud.
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Partially because the algorithms don’t propagate it. But the leftists are far too easy to bamboozle with social media feeds.
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Y’know, I never seriously thought about this consequence of the formation of the federal banking system.