They love it, it’s the best job they ever had. They get to do what they’ve always wanted–have power over people, order them around, and beat the shit out of them as much as they want, knowing they won’t be held accountable.
Anyone that statement doesn’t apply to, has either quit already or never considered taking a job like that in the first place.
Record them everywhere they go, record everything they do, report everything they do, everything they say, every lie they tell. It’s all evidence. Let everyone see it and hear it and know about it. That’s important not only for right now so everyone knows, but also in case we can ever have trials.
There’s nothing about Meet the Press or Graham in this article so I don’t why you’re talking about them. The article is reporting on the lies and slander the regime’s government officials are standing behind a podium and stating as official facts. People need to know they can’t trust them or believe what they say.
So you think we should shut up about it, ignore it? No, we need to call it out every time. It is news every time.
Exactly. Ignore naysayers–their agenda is to sit on their fat asses and support fascism by discouraging its enemies.
Protests help immensely. We see we aren’t alone, we realize how many people feel the same as we do and join them. Strength in numbers. Not just in protests but in all the other work. Observe, film, document. Boycott bootlicker companies. Do not feed the oligarchs, do not comply.
Encourage and support each other, aid those being oppressed. Everyone can contribute however they can contribute, each action or dollar small in itself but a major force taken as a whole. Large numbers showing up in the open enables the smaller numbers working behind the scenes.
It’s planned in advance–they decide that they want the funding to pass and decide who will take the heat and vote for it–those in safe re-election districts, and just enough of them for it to pass. That way the rest of them can say “who me? I voted against it!” But except for maybe a few who really were opposed, the rest of them all agreed to pass the bill.
Yep, the only reason I say they’ll more likely just threaten him with it to make him “voluntarily” step down is that his followers would rebel against Vance if he outright power ousts him with the 25th.
But I think he (actually they, the whole cadre that are running things) will go ahead and actually invoke it if trump refuses to cooperate. It’ll just take more work–either a propaganda effort of video clips, rumors, leaks of “doctor reports” and “off-camera incidents”, etc. to convince his cult that he really is unable to continue, or more likely something might just “unfortunately happen” to him. They just have to make sure the magats don’t smell a rat and turn on them.
Oh, and the reason to wait until beginning of next year is so Vance will be able to run for two more full terms.
I predict Vance, et. al. will be doing an effective 25nd Amendment move after the midterms–not needing to actually invoke it but threatening trump with it if he doesn’t play along with their plans. There are lots of ways to manipulate him with both carrots and sticks. Assuming repubs keep their majority in Congress, (see the next paragraph), trump will conveniently have a health crisis that forces him to “retire” next year. Of course he might go ahead and have one without help anyway, but this is assuming he doesn’t.
The wild card is how the midterms will go, which I can’t predict. Will they be free and fair “normal” elections? I seriously doubt it. Lots of red states have one or two blue House seats. Repub-majority red states have been working on stacking election boards and judges ever since 2020 and they’re ready. They’ll make sure those blue House seats turn red, no redistricting is even needed, just manipulation of the voting process–purging the voter rolls on the front end and not counting as many ballots as needed on the back end.
Looks good, just need to work on a few minor things:
All of the ascenders and descenders (lines that extend above and below) need to be longer, especially on the f, d and the p. Also make sure the line on the right side of the a is clear and noticeable, it looks a lot like an o because you can hardly see that line. Overall the round parts of letters like a, d, g, p, etc are a little too wide/fat, so that combined with the vertical line parts being too short makes them look too similar to an o.
That may sound like a lot of criticism, but overall it does look very good. It just takes a lot of words to try and describe these small issues.
You’re advocating for a general strike? Great! Except … then why are you disparaging the very people this thread is about who are doing exactly that, why are you saying “those efforts are useless” to: “Unions, faith groups and local leaders urge residents not to work, shop or go to school after killing of Renee Good”. That is a general strike. Even though it’s just one day per week for now.
I know what your next reply will because I’ve seen it many times. You’ll say it’s not enough, that everyone has to strike every day all at once or it’s useless. Nope. That’s never going to happen and isn’t how it happened in places where protests and strikes were effective. It doesn’t have to be everyone every single day, though the more the better. It has to be enough that they can’t be ignored or shut down.
Will enough happen here? I really don’t know because there is so much propaganda flooding the zone to suppress information, to scare and to dissuade people, and you’re contributing to that. If you really do want to help, maybe at least just stop contributing to that.
Protesting isn’t effective until it is. Maybe it never will be or maybe the tide will turn or who knows what. We only know doing nothing accomplishes nothing. There are plenty of cases on video of people in Minneapolis preventing ICE from taking people when a crowd showed up yelling, recording, and blowing whistles, where ICE turned around and left. Sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn’t.
Now since you know so much about what doesn’t work, tell me what should people be doing and what you have done to help make whatever that is happen? I’m tired of every time people try to take action and there’s a post about it on here, you all come swarming out of the woodwork to repeat your same old talking points saying it’s useless and no one should bother. What is your agenda?
Either actually start doing something you think will be effective or shut up about it. Stop trying to dissuade the people who are actually doing something, whether you think they’re effective or not.
They literally said what I quoted and what I responded to: That sociologists say not to bother (who? which?) and that if people do one thing they think they’re done and stop (not at all in my experience).
Which sociologists say “not to bother”? Is it 9 out of 10 of them, like in a toothpaste commercial?
And why do you think people who participate in these things only do it once and stop? Generally the people who participate in one thing are the same people who continue participating in more things. Movements rarely spring full-force into existence at once, they build as more people are affected and/or become aware. Awareness is definitely starting to grow as even oblivious parts of the county are now starting to hear stuff getting through their bubbles that doesn’t match the propaganda from their usual feeding trough.
TBH this post reads like a copy of the typical “your efforts are useless so don’t bother” propaganda that every. single. post advocating activism gets–there are at least 5 times as many posts lie this trying to dissuade people from taking action as posts advocating action. Gee I wonder whose interests that helps?
If you want to argue about what works best and encourage more effective activities, go ahead and do that instead of just complaining about people who are doing something instead of nothing.
I sometimes wonder where we’d be today if Obama hadn’t made that joke or been given the Nobel Prize. That abominable thing might never have entered politics, might never even have entered the conscious awareness of most people of the world.
The university apparently quibbled with Plato’s reference the the “Myth of Androgyne,” in which Aristophanes describes three genders.
I suppose next they’ll be banned from teaching German.
Agree, and I made that point already. The only thing worse than a Daily Mail story is an AI interpretive dance of a Daily Mail story.
The ones this article links to appear to be non-AI, though that doesn’t mean Daily Mail is a good place to get news. I read similar info on some major media news site in the US, again them not being AI is not necessarily a guarantee of unbiased info. Let me look in my history for a link. - (edit: I’m not finding anything in my history from a major US media source, so I guess what I read was probably also the Daily Mall.)
This sounds exactly an AI generated slopicle, with all the typical phrasing and re-wording you expect. It basically takes lines straight from the refenced articles and slightly rewords and/or adds little interpretative phrases to them.
Folks, we need to start learning to recognize this kind of crap and not be fooled by it. For example:
Hindustan Times simple statement: “A neighbor further told the Daily Mail that she spotted Jonathan Ross’s wife Patrixia pacing around the driveway on Wednesday afternoon.”
This: “She was spotted looking frantic as she walked back and forth in the driveway, according to the Hindustan Times, suggesting a woman suddenly grappling with the reality that her husband had been involved in a lethal force incident during his shift.” <-- (oh please! no reporter writes shit like that, “… suggesting a woman suddenly grappling with the reality that…”)
Daily Mall simple statement: > “She also shared photos of baking recipes from a Spanish-language cookbook.”
This: > She appears to enjoy cooking, having previously shared photos of baking recipes from a Spanish-language cookbook on social media.
And what is this?: “Shortly after the shooting, Patrixia and the children were never seen at home again.” That doesn’t even make sense! No human would say that.
I’ve just watched the first third of this (original source linked by squirrel) video.
tl;dw This is a great idea: Cory Doctorow explains how
all the countries the US trades with were forced, in their trade agreements with the US under threat of losing the US market, to pass their own digital copyright anti-circumvention laws so that US big tech companies can seek rent and collect the personal data of citizens of those countries with impunity, and
Now that trump has imposed all these tariffs on them and violated the agreements anyway, there is no longer any reason for them to to keep those laws on the books, laws which only hurt their own people and help US tech companies. He explains retaliatory tariffs only hurt their own people, that the best response is for other countries to stop protecting US oligarch and repeal those laws, which will help their own entrepreneurs and citizens, and withhold billions in rent to the US oligarchs.
And that’s just the first third of the video, but I stopped to post this before watching the rest. edit update: yeah the whole video is worth watching.
Icehole: “Wait, the people here stand up for themselves, wtf?. I was told they would cower in fear and run away, but they film us and blow those damn whistles. I was told no one would say anything when we beat the shit out of people and shoot them. Also, it’s cold. I wanna go to a nice warm red state where they hate the same people we do and cheer us on when we fuck 'em up.”