Negative.
I am a meat popsicle.
The way Doug LaMalfa is remembered by the country at large was in no one’s hands except Doug LaMalfa’s.
If you don’t want people to celebrate when you die, you should probably try not being utterly morally bankrupt and siding with a fascist autocracy.
I try and never hope for another human being’s death. Fortunately, pieces of shit aren’t human.
Goebbels-lite needs a short drop and a sudden stop.
Thank you!
All events that deserve and need support.
Have you ever been shelled? Or fired upon by a member of an enemy army who’s trying his level best to kill you?
I have. It’s not an experience I’m anxious to repeat. I think you’re drastically under-estimating the average person’s aversion to physical violence and the lengths the vast majority of people will go through to avoid ever being in proximity to it.
Successful rebellions start with demonstrations and build. The escalation of protest and response is necessary to build the kind of commitment a sustainable campaign of violence will require. You can’t just conjure a willingness to run into gunfire for people who haven’t been trained to do so, and thinking that you can just jump past the slow brewing of rage you need in the general population is idealist at best and naive at worst.
On the one hand, you’re correct on all counts.
On the other, you’re the only person in this entire discussion framing things in terms of open revolt. Collective action is NOT that, and presupposing the necessity of armed conflict could needlessly get innocents killed.
I’d much rather show up for a protest and have to deal with tear gas than show up expecting to assault the city and give them an excuse to meet us with tanks instead.
Edit - not to mention that a wave of people stripping the country bare of supplies and equipment as they move towards the capitol is going to do absolute wonders for the public perception of any rebellion. You’ll have Mr and Mrs Public screaming for it to be put down, hard.
Who provides shelter to a million people converging on a city?
Do you know what winters in the US are like? How do you keep those people warm enough to continue protesting in 10° (-12°C) weather? You can’t just say “people will have to figure that out for themselves”, people will literally freeze to death if you do that.
A cold winter was instrumental in defeating the Nazis in Russia, wasn’t it? Everyday civilians are not trained soldiers, are not accustomed to spending long periods in freezing cold, and for the most part don’t own the proper equipment that would even make such a thing possible.
Are you going to equip them? Feed them?
These things don’t just come together overnight or without a huge amount of planning and logistics. The fact that you think it’s as easy as “driving to the capitol and staying there” just goes to show how little you’ve actually thought about this.
Edit - just for context, there are roughly 115,000 hotel rooms in the DC Metro Area. Even with illegal double occupancy, that’s 800,000 people living on the streets, underequipped, in winter.
Next nationwide 50501 protest is a national walk-out on Jan 20th.
We’ll see you there, right?
If only there was an appropriately named “Big Party” happening somewhere important to the country sometime this year…
Next nationwide 50501 protest is Jan 20th.
I have no doubt that, in addition to the spontaneous protests on Saturday, there are many more demonstrations whose planning has been kicked into high gear by the events of this weekend.
Of course they are, and that will just feed the narrative / give them an excuse to put more troops on the streets / allow them to swoop in and place all such daycares “temporarily” under government control “for protection” / give added fuel to the eventual argument for martial law.
If it was about drugs, Orange Hitler wouldn’t have pardoned Balsonaro. It’s about oil and enriching his corporate money fountain.
Shirley admitting his reporting is “satire” when pressed about a video he made claiming the war in Ukraine was a fraud:
I’m sure if the Guardian were to really put their heads together they’d be able to come up with at least a couple plausible explanations why people in power didn’t want to go after the guy who was providing people in power with underage girls.
Hmmm…it’s a puzzler for sure.
PapapapapapapapapapapaPAPAPAPA
PAPA OO MOW MOW PAPA OO MOW MA MOW
Sounds an awful lot like we need to act before they do.
The tree of liberty, and all that.
By comparison, the cost to eradicate world hunger by 2030 would be $93 billion a year, and I can guarantee not a penny of those trillions will EVER help a poor person.
And?
Please point me to a single comment I’ve made on any post in the last 24 hours that indicates, in any way, that I don’t consider the arbitrary abduction of the head of a foreign government to be a serious breach of international law.
You cannot.
What I won’t let slide without argument are false equivalencies, half-truths, or misrepresentations of law.
When horrible shit happens is the time for more accuracy and specificity, not less.
I, personally, would drive to the wreckage and take a huge dump on it before going on the celebration bender of a lifetime if another country had the balls to wipe Mar A Lago off the map.
Are you seriously trying to say that by not acknowledging fascists humanity, it’s MY FAULT if they then act inhumanely?
Those are some convoluted hoops to jump through just to do some victim blaming.
If you side with fascists, and utterly forsake common moral decency, you are no longer worthy of having your humanity considered when society comes for you. Sorry, shouldn’t have voluntarily placed yourself in opposition to all moral and ethical standards.