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[–] [email protected] 100 points 4 days ago (6 children)

These people are TOAST! If the Wanted to ACTUALLY Peacefully Protest they SHOULD have just BROKEN the CAPITOL WINDOWS, BEATEN CAPITOL POLICE, POOPED ON THE CAPITOL WALLS and USED WEAPONS!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

Maybe even shit on a desk?

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 4 days ago (2 children)

OoooooooooK. So, who wants to start a betting pool on which day this week we get martial law? Price is Right rules?

Imma say Tuesday.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 4 days ago (2 children)

This is basically a declaration of it.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 days ago (2 children)

OK, so I'll put you down for Monday?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

I’ll take Wednesday for the over

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Do you happen to be open on Sundays?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Like, today?

It's a bold strategy Cotton, let's see if it pays off.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

I expect that declaration to be on his birthday parade when he gives his night of the long knives speech.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

He 100% wants it before his birthday

[–] [email protected] 69 points 4 days ago (3 children)

To me, this looks like yet another sign that the current regime is striving for tyranny. That, in turn, would probably mean civil war, unless US citizens are willing to accept the end of democracy.

At least, that's how it looks to me, a European. Do you feel the same way?

I mean, it's pretty obvious that the US government doesn't care about the law. And then, to top it all off, there's this ridiculous military parade for Drump's birthday ... only someone with dictator ambitions would do something like that.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Yeah, the LA "riots" where super tame by riot AND LA standards. Like, they didn't even have to bust out the water cannons. A skateboarder tanked some tear gas and flipped them off. It's not like a bunch of people stormed the capitol building or something. This is the flimsiest excuse ever for martial law, so I have to assume it's another step towards tyranny.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Apparently storming the capitol building is cool with this administration though

[–] adarza 12 points 4 days ago

that's been done before. maybe next time a different nearby building of a similar color could be chosen.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Yes, it's frightening.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 days ago (2 children)

To me this has been pretty obvious since they started following the Project 2025 manifesto line by line

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Yes, I see it the same way. But it seems that implementation is now imminent, and I fear that resistance will be necessary, because soon it will probably be too late.

I'm from Germany, and the actions of the US government remind me eerily of the rise of the Nazis in my home country back then - almost as if history were repeating itself.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago

I assure you, we're thinking the same stuff.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

Honestly, it could be seen on the distant horizon as far back as the Bush administration

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

From the ground, it feels like a lot of Americans are willing to trade their democracy for the illusion of peace.

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

Remember! They wouldn't do this if they didn't think they had to - this government action comes from a place of weakness, not strength.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

No it comes from long experience of knowing they will get away with it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Then why didn't they do it before? Or sooner?

There's a reason they delayed doing this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Because they've been slowly sounding out how much they could get away with for a long time: pushing the envelope a little bit further, seeing what the response is, and then pushing it some more then they see they can get away with it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is likely a part of the Authoritarian plan, as opposed to a response to loss of control.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's not about a loss of control, it's about maintaining control to prevent a loss of control. They don't want another BLM summer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I still think that they have been looking for an excuse, in order to change the paradigm in a fundamental way.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

If you choose to go out to help, sharpie the number of a local legal non profit helpline on your arm and leave your phone at home. Bring a sharpie to write the number on others arms. Mask up. Solidarity and safety, my friends.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago

Breaking into the capital, causing physical damage, attacking police officers, stealing U.S. government property. That's defending democracy.

Standing outside a federal detention center where people are being illegally held. That rebellion.

Welcome to trump's America, peace I'd was, slavery is freedom.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The funny consequences about labeling everything as an act of rebellion is that everything suddenly becomes an act of rebellion. The door opens and now we have to deal with rebels everywhere.

ICE cant be everywhere getting everyone because there is a fucking rebellion, so that means there are captured rebels in court, on trail, with jurors ... when the rebels start getting found not guilty by their local courts they are no longer rebels ... what are they? Revolutionists.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Nah, they just label the jurors rebels and send them to CECOT

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 days ago

Welcome to the rebellion.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 days ago (1 children)

And what's a riot? Well you see, if a shopping cart is on fire then that's a riot. If the police show up in riot gear then that's a riot. If people stand up for their rights then that's a riot.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago

If people are in zoot suits, that’s a riot.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago

People peacefully assembling to exercise their Constitutional rights, and the guy who planned, led, and launched an actual Insurrection which obviously attacked hundreds of cops wants to claim THAT'S a rebellion.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Get ready for another Kent State massacre x1000

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Well, my reading of 10 U.S. Code § 12406 argues that he's full of shit. This is a law written in case of invasion.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

You’re so wrong. Well technically absolutely correct. However since might makes it right… you’re wrong since no one is standing up to stop it.

National protest. Shut down the Interstates. Hit them where it counts. Stocks and cash

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Hopefully the protestors can get organized enough to not be crushed. Good luck, stay safe.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago

Oh cool, they’re arresting the the GOP, police and ICE?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

feeling like fascist martial law. who could have seen it coming. i bet brandon would have stopped it. not socialists though, socialism is evil. 🙄

[–] chrisbtoo 8 points 4 days ago

What? The "land of the free"? Whoever told you that is your enemy.

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