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[-] PhAzE@lemmy.ca 17 points 6 hours ago

So military control of blue states is normal now? Might be time to stand up against this 🤔

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 11 points 7 hours ago

He might be able to get away with it in DC, which has always had second-rate status in America, with nobody watching out for them. He won't be able to do that in states with hostile governors who are not only NOT afraid of him, they are itching for a fight.

[-] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 39 points 10 hours ago

That's just his way of saying "Stop talking about the Epstein files!"

[-] prole 14 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

What the fuck are you even talking about? This is a fascist takeover of blue cities, this is not a distraction from anything Jesus Christ

Do people truly not understand just how bad this is? Read a fucking history book

[-] Ileftreddit@lemmy.world 7 points 5 hours ago

Well it certainly has stopped the chatter about Epstein, fascist takeovers tend to supplant other news

[-] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 19 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

This is the next step in his facsist takeover. Losing your democracy is not a distraction.

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 hours ago

The Epstein Files seem to be an excellent distraction from the facists takeover however.

[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 15 points 9 hours ago

Or, it is a genuine threat and consolidation of power.

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 14 points 9 hours ago
[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 53 points 19 hours ago
[-] brown567@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Fasciculi Epsteinis divulgandi sunt

Cato the Elder

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 hours ago

"What's all this, then??"

[-] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 31 points 19 hours ago

See, this is the part where I expect the non-Americans to get very loud about us not doing anything.

And I expect they will receive silence from Americans.

Because as soon as that distance from DC to anywhere starts getting smaller, it will be anything but silent offline.

[-] rozodru@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

The problem is there's no counter-leadership to the regime. Not even a grass roots level. People in general need someone to rally behind, even a small focused group, and on the left that doesn't exist. The closest you might possibly have to have is the California Governor. Bernie isn't it, AOC isn't it.

The other problem is the American people have been conditioned to essentially "not have time nor the resources, financially" for it. Healthcare tied to employment, Right to work states, Cost of living, etc, etc, etc. This of course is by design. It's hard for a nation to revolt if it means their family won't be eating next week. It's hard for the average person to justify it. Carry on and hope it works out in the end.

And it's clearly evident right now that Republicans won't play by the rules. Law, they've decided, doesn't apply to them and they can simply ignore it. So you need a Leader who is willing to play the same game and currently no one on the Democrat side is willing to do that. They insist on continuing to use a system they believe in which is now painfully evident to be broken.

The US people need a Leader who is strong enough to rally millions behind them and is also willing to throw down.

[-] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 hours ago

So what's your reason for not doing anything.

[-] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 8 hours ago

LOL what?

Are you saying Americans will rise up once Trump imposes martial law in the next place?

Sure, sure. I'm certain thats the line Americans will not allow him to cross.

[-] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 9 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

No. I'm saying that the distance makes it pretty damn difficult to do anything outside our own locale. And DC is small compared to his other targets.

DC has a population of ~700,000. Chicago has a population of ~2,700,00. LA has a population of ~3,800,000. NYC has a population of ~8,500,000.

And those are just the city boundaries, not the areas around them.

A guy threw a sandwich at a cop yesterday. He was out numbered. He probably knew he was going to get arrested. But he did it anyway. In the bigger cities? People have far less patience than he did.

You won't hear squat about resistance efforts anywhere. OPSEC is a thing people are well aware of.

[-] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 19 points 18 hours ago

NonAmerican here.

When are you freeing folks from death camps?

[-] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 7 points 9 hours ago

Well, if you have an idea how to do that before we get rid of this regime, I'm all ears.

[-] Typotyper@sh.itjust.works 7 points 9 hours ago

If millions of you start behaving the same in a passive aggressive way then people will have to react. Drive the speed limit. Everywhere and bottleneck the roads like the French farmers do Bottleneck parking lots. Bottleneck any area that has a lot of semi trucks. Take longer at intersections to go and stop for those yellows. Take longer to fill your car with gas. Take longer to unpack your groceries at the check out. Pedestrians take longer to cross and exit the crosswalks closer to the green. But things on Amazon and return them. Buy things at box stores and return them.

If millions of you do this roads and streets will back up and be congested. Maybe take a day a week and do it by something that’s important to MAGA people. Pick politicians and get to the airport before that are due in. Strangle the roads for them. Make them wait and idle in frustration.

[-] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

The problem with the US is that the people that want to stop this, mostly live in more concentrated cities and college towns.

The places that the red hats frequent are hours of driving from these places, and the few places they are concentrated, there are so few lefties that it’d be impossible to slow anything down. There are a 100 million of us, but we’re mostly concentrated along the coasts and urban centers.

If we could get our farmers to not worship the shitheads in charge, it would be a different situation.

[-] Typotyper@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

If you grid lock a city for a day or really slow down a portion of a state for a week ripples will be made in the economy. Regardless of Red or blue, economic ripples are not good. When countries stated slowing selling off US treasuries Trump was forced to react.

You don’t need all the cars on the road to drive 50 in a 55. 30% spread out or smaller concentrated groups will have a huge effect on traffic

If people want to protest and hurt the government, then they need to do something other than talking.

https://nypost.com/2023/09/01/activist-stunts-like-d-c-traffic-jam-hurt-the-climate-cause/

https://tasks.illustrativemathematics.org/content-standards/HSN/Q/A/tasks/84

[-] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Are you asking how to abolish encampments and prisons? Because Americans did so perfectly well on 2021-01-06. Why they don't seem to do so for ICE says everything about the bigotry that Americans wish to persist.

[-] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 6 points 6 hours ago

Wait, what? What are you trying to compare there?

A whole bunch of criminals were pardoned or not even charged because the current regime implementing the concentration camps had sympathizers and pardoned them themselves.

[-] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Are you saying you won't get pardoned for freeing legal migrants and tourists from illegal encampments even if the empire will pick another fascist?

Every day folks suffer in these death camps, is another day Americans show their complicity for dehumanization.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 126 points 23 hours ago
[-] kylie_kraft@lemmy.world 105 points 1 day ago

Ghislaine Maxwell just got work release

[-] hddsx@lemmy.ca 45 points 21 hours ago

The funniest thing is, I’m not sure what work she does other than sex trafficking

[-] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 27 points 20 hours ago
[-] teamevil@lemmy.world 8 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

U/MaxwellHill suddenly posting pro pedo arguments outta the blue

[-] parody@lemmings.world 8 points 19 hours ago

Ghislainez Spezwell

[-] Tempus_Fugit@midwest.social 9 points 21 hours ago

Mossad agent.

[-] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 70 points 23 hours ago

Any body else thinking this Nazi wants to be a king?

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 hours ago

Don't worry,

[-] andrewta@lemmy.world 20 points 23 hours ago

Naaaaahhhhh couldn’t be

[-] MorksEgg@lemmy.world 28 points 21 hours ago

Of course he will. This is just a the lithmus test to see how far he can push the envelope and seeing what new laws need to be instituted or changed to get his desired outcome. If he doesn't get much push back from DC, he'll move on to a larger city, new state. Not New York or California, too big, too soon. But maybe something smaller like New Mexico, where you can add on the border as an issue. I'm not familiar with New Mexico any of their cities having immigration problems? You're hardly ever hear anything about New Mexico, they must be pretty chill down there.

And I understand a DC provides certain specific powers that he doesn't have in other states.They've already overturned a few of his decisions, but it doesn't seem to slow him I'm down much anyway. So I got a feeling they're only going to keep escalating.

[-] Substance_P@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Sounds like you may be onto something.

New Mexico governor declares state of emergency in rural county afflicted by crime, drug use

[-] TwinTitans@lemmy.world 56 points 23 hours ago

Where the files Epstein Donald?

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 hours ago

I hear you, but also:
Literal Dictator shit happening here. This is worth paying attention to.

If Trump starts ordering the military to shoot you and your family I doubt you'd appreciate people saying "but what about the Epstein Files?"

The Epstein Files aren't news. They aren't going to change anyone's opinion. They are the distraction here.

[-] killea@lemmy.world 32 points 21 hours ago

Ah, so laying clear obvious groundwork for martial law. I can't wait for another slew of news articles somehow soft-balling this whole issue.

[-] kikutwo@lemmy.world 45 points 23 hours ago

Gestapo expansion. First step.

I thought we were on step 17. Maybe I got the version that breaks the steps up into baby steps.

[-] parody@lemmings.world 4 points 19 hours ago

Makes the fascism slightly easier to digest

Slightly

[-] Bort@sh.itjust.works 30 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

The march of fascism continues.

[-] StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world 15 points 22 hours ago

Imagine how many world conflicts might actually have been caused because someone didn't want people to know they fucked 14 year olds...

[-] obrien_must_suffer@lemmy.world 8 points 20 hours ago

State's rights until it isn't.

[-] TangledHyphae@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

"Washington D.C. is not a state; it is a federal district, officially the District of Columbia. Its creation and governance are directly established by the U.S. Constitution, which designates it as the seat of the United States government."

[-] obrien_must_suffer@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

Correct, but I was hypothesizing that when they try to do the same things in other cities as suggested in other comments, all the people that were vocal about state;s rights on other topics will likely be silent.

[-] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 6 points 20 hours ago

see ya in Philly, Trumpy.

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