The important part is the “and domestic” bit. Active duty troops are oath bound to engage Trump the same way they do any other enemy of the United States. Their decision not to this far is a breach of their duty.
Better late than never though - do your job already, troops!
Sometimes you need a guillotine.
I mean, there are probably at least dozens of people named “Jesus Christ” today. The name is only a fraction of the character… what he did or didn’t do is pretty damn important in the context of religious mythology. I don’t think anyone really cares if scholars agree that there was a dude named Jesus Christ in the timeframe / region of interest if he was just an average Joe. …or even a way-above-average Joe: his fame boils down to doing magic. Not tricks, but actual magic. So, what do scholars say about a guy named Jesus Christ who can make fish and bread appear out of thin air, perform alchemy on water to turn it into wine, or press the pause button on water displacement?
Historically, complying with Nazis does not actually yield the promised safety. Arm up, and shoot first.
We don’t have the spine for a civil war. Closest thing we’ll feasibly see are a few targeted political assassinations. Things will get kinda noisy after that in a bickering kind of way, but most of us won’t even remember it by the following Monday. It’ll fizzle out.
Listening to an NCLEX review lecture as I’m scrolling… They’re talking about addiction, and gave the whole “I can quit anytime I want” example of denial… AS I was scrolling past this post.
That was uncanny.
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Yeah generally you think of satire as being an exaggerated version of something that’s happening… a lot of ‘satire’ on Tump isn’t exaggerated at all, it’s shit he would absolutely plausibly do; we just don’t have an actual record of him doing it.
It’d be like putting an article out about me eating pizza for dinner, and calling it satire because you don’t actually know what I ate for dinner. But I would 100% nom a pizza if there was one infront of me.
At time. …but really, this shit is pure gold from start to finish!
On a long hike, pushed the whole ‘stop and set up camp’ thing way too late, so it’s already dark as I’m starting to pitch the tent. Start feeling really uneasy like I’m being watched, so I do a quick sweep of my surroundings with my flashlight - and sure as shit two reflective eyes become visible for half a second before the critter that owns them gets spooked by light and runs off. Couldn’t see the actual animal, just the eyes, but now I’m borderline shitting myself with fear, so I get in the semi-pitched-but-fuck-it tent and lay down listening for footsteps or something.
Never did hear footsteps, but about 20 mins later that little shit let out an incredibly loud and absolutely blood curdling scream… like, women getting actively murdered whilst screaming into a megaphone, kind of scream… right outside the tent.
Then nothing for the remainder of the night.
I get home and start searching the web for what the actual fuck that was: 99% sure I was being stalked by a cougar.
and you will pay for your part in it.
I mean, here’s hoping, but real accountability is a fucking unicorn nowadays.
Pure anecdote, but my personal experience suggests that reading vs listening do not activate the same part of the brain. With textbooks specifically, reading assignments never seemed to do me much good - I’d read a page, really giving it my attention, but then make it to the end of the page and realize I have no idea what it was talking about like 3 paragraphs ago.
Enter the age of digital textbooks and text-to-speech software - fucking godsend for me, even when it’s the shitty Microsoft Sam style voice. Listening to the material instead of reading increased retention quite a bit.
Taking it up another notch, doing them both simultaneously was the clear winner. If I listen to a reading assignment while following along visually reading the text, it’s like a one-and-done and ready to take the test at the end of the semester with no further studying.
I discovered this superpower near the end of highschool, and it has absolutely carried me through everything since - if you think you might be an auditory learner, give it a shot!
By all means, behaving like a Nazi should be a major mortal liability. ICE agents are enemies not just to the United States, but to humanity as a whole. They should live in fear; and may that fear be actualized sooner than later.
Vigilante justice could be a good option.
At the last hospital I worked at, a nurse was badly injured on the job for something totally out of her control. Probably shouldn’t give more details than that so I don’t dox her or myself.
Instead of giving her worker’s comp and helping her recover, the hospital fired her over some completely unrelated frivolous bullshit (along the lines of "a patient overheard you using profanity while talking to a co-worker). This was also like a couple months away from her becoming vested in their retirement program.
I’m just a tech, but it was abundantly clear that giving my time to that company would be an incredibly risky move - fuuuuck that. I put my notice in the next day.
I hope she sued the absolute fuck out of them.
The animosity between generations is a lot like the animosity between races or most other us-vs-them bullshit in that it’s manufactured to keep potential allies fighting against each other.
This is ultimately a class war - everything else is a distraction.
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Feels backwards, but you’ll never fuck it up again.
On one hand, yes… but on the other, I think that’s part of why they’re so successful. We constantly give Trump and people like Trump the village idiot pass - we don’t take them seriously because we wave off their malice as just stupidity.
If Trump actually behaved competently, he’d have been in prison ages ago.
…it’s the fucking Darth Jar Jar theory, but it’s happening in real time.
Oh he was trained. This shit wasn’t a fluke. We’ve reached “Nazis patrolling our streets, executing civilians on the president’s orders” stage of US collapse. This will continue until people start shooting back.
The Party told you to ignore the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
There was a pretty extensive study through the 1930s and 1940s on how up best handle a Nazi. They identified many useful tools… leaf blowers did not make the cut.