• derfaucet ( derfaucet@beehaw.org ) 
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    4 days ago

    I know everyone has given up on their congresspeople, but please tell them again you do not want this going on and we need to defund this.

    Do not use violence against these guys. I’m pretty sure that’s the administration’s plan. As soon as a patriotic citizen fires upon the Gestapo, martial law will be declared and elections will be suspended

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        They’ll happily pass emergency powers acts and give more money to Homeland Security in order to oppress and intern more people if they think they can get away with it.

        We need to tell them they cannot get away with it

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            How is it you fail to see the pattern. Republican presidents consistently bring war, recession, repeal of environmental protections, the creation and ramping up of fascist arms of government and massive deficits.

            Democrats lead to scandalous blowjobs, tan suits and the trans!!!

            • im not sure if voting works the way you think it works anymore with how f’d our government is. I mean, maybe it does, and I’m definitely voting, im just not sure its gonna make any difference. I actually kind of assume it won’t based on all the evidence i’ve seen.

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                It will still be f’d, but we will be demanding things like healthcare and defunding the police

                Pretty sure if Republicans hold onto every branch of govt we’ll be demanding due process, access to drinking water and not charging into WWIII.

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                    While agree ultimately it is us vs billionaires, the official WWIII that may very well lead to tens of millions of deaths, starvation and the sinking of our future due to climate system destruction

                    You underestimate how bad things can get.

                    Ever play hearts of Iron?

                    Newt Gingrich and Musk were tasked by Hegseth to envision the future of war. Hegseth seems to believe he’s leading a holy war.

                    Trump faces sentencing in new York as soon as he’s not president anymore. He was convicted of enough business fraud to land in jail

                    Musk has major manufacturing facilities in China Germany and the US and he owns SpaceX. He has 9 years to take TSLA to $9 trillion in market cap in order to cash in on the $1 trillion bonus deal Tesla shareholders agreed to. TSLA is at like $1.5 trillion market cap now. WWII made BMW, Mercedes Bens, Porsche, GM, Ford and others previously unknown superpowers. I suspect Musk sees this as his chance

                    Stealing Venezuela and the data center chip hoarding would be a good idea if Taiwan and the Middle East were about to be destroyed.

                    Tanking the economy via Smoot Hawley style tarrifs is a good way to get people on board with war and increase military enrollment numbers

                    Our most senior war strategists were just fired. Dozens of top generals have been fired over the past couple years.

                    These are bad indicators. The actual levers we have over the military is congress and yes, anti-billionaire protest too. But one without the other will not work.

                    There are a hell of a lot of Russians who want Putin and his allies dead. See Hypernormalization (released in 2016) by Adam Curtis to understand how Putin stays in power

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        Homeland Security still has many tens of billions of dollars in their coffers and Trump already successfully deployed the Marines to LA without legal ramifications.

        If Hegseth and Trump have their way, the next time the Marines are deployed against US citizens they won’t just be picking up trash on the park