Idk why I'm asking this, but I'm genuinely curious why you think reservations exist?
I believe the most obvious is they benefit (or at least believe they will benefit) from that outcome.
Except this is also how the "democracy" that is modern day Russia was created. Everything that's happened in the U.S. since ~2012 that has been driving us to the brink of collapse by furthering the divide between left and right has been eerily similar.
Psychological Inoculation and Astroturfing: Preparing for exploitation of U.S. secession movements
A lot of people don't know this, bc it's not exactly clear what they were doing there, but coincidentally the Heritage Foundation also seemed to play a role in the creation of the first free market in the earliest days of post-soviet Russia.
This is the beginning. He wants an excuse to declare martial law.
He's still holding back and being strategic at this point, once he establishes a permanent military branch to oversee California that's when shit really hits the fan.
Getting all blue states and jurisdictions to start withholding federal taxes until we have a federal government who is actually representing us again, is a much better plan than telling a bunch of civilians to go fight the military. You are literally sending people to be slaughtered and kick off a second civil war, but I'm pretty sure you're probably fully aware of that.
Again where is the actual show of support from the rest of America? This should not be California's fight, it should be all of us fighting as America against authoritarianism.
Where are the people telling their local government they need to following the example Glendale just set for the rest of us.
When you're left with no other alternative, then yes. Why not try to form a coalition of Americans that will stand together against Trump before we dissolve into a second civil war where individual blue states are going against the entire U.S. government?
How about some support from other blue states and jurisdictions? Where are the calls for blue states senators and representatives to vocally stand with California, where are the mayors and city councils willing to follow Glendale's example?
Sending people into a suicide mission without actually backing them up, is like supporting a war you're not fighting in (yet). When it's your turn, you will hope that others will stand with you instead of remotely egging you on to be David against Goliath.
I'm not arguing it's the core of science, I'm arguing it shouldn't be dismissed completely bc these people want to weaponize it.
Science should always include healthy skepticism and debate. If not, you've basically just reinvented religion.
If you've worked in science, there is a good chance you've met somebody like that. There are unfortunately many people that seem to have a pathological inability to acknowledge when they're wrong or accept that they made a mistake.
If you have worked in science and believe you've never encountered that attitude you're either very lucky or you're that guy.
Bruh, seriously...
Yep, and it wasn't even the military, it was just a local police force. I believe they killed 11 people and around 5 children. The 40th anniversary just passed.
If a single police force using weapons from 40 years ago could do something like that without a second thought, I hope people consider what the outcome would realistically be today, when encouraging people in California to strap themselves and head into a suicide mission against police, federal agencies, national guard, military, Palantir, and private military companies like Blackwater under a president who has already told them "he who serves his country, commits no crime."
Frustrate and impede, just don't help them advance their agenda by giving them the physical escalation they're hoping for.
An "insurrection" under Trump will not be handled the way an actual insurrection was when Trump instigated it under Biden. This has been planned for a long time.
Richard Blumenthal Reveals Trump 'Martial Law' Fear
I hope more Americans at city and state levels will start joining cities like Glendale.
It's complicated. This pretty clearly targeting our "progressive" sheriff who the governor believes was installed by George Soros (I'm not joking).
The state already sued and took her to court to make her drop the city's sanctuary policy that is a result of a federal consent decree. They lost in court, so they made this new law to try and force her instead.
It's been a wild few months
Then after all that we still had the 10 inmates who escaped after being let out of her overcrowded and underfunded jail by a jail employee. This is also being blamed on "progressive policies" (Even though the reason it was overcrowded was bc the governor established a permanent police force in the city and filled the jails with people who were pulled over for things like window tint level and then arrested on unrelated charges.)
Because they are state police, they have never been bound by city rules, and they can do whatever they want. They have already been working with ICE this whole time. The governor has even released an EO that brought on 5 state agencies to already work with ICE that ranges from the National Guard to the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (I'm not joking)
Still, he couldn't just leave the city law enforcement alone, bc he couldn't stand not having full control.