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Trump Threatens to Use Insurrection Act Against Demonstrators in Minnesota (truthout.org)

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On Thursday morning, President Donald Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act, a federal law that allows presidents to deploy the U.S. military domestically under certain circumstances, purportedly to help enforce local law enforcement amid civil unrest. Trump baselessly claimed that military presence is necessary in Minnesota’s Twin Cities to quell protests against his administration’…

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[–] agentant@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago

It never WAS a democracy. The American people have never had any real choice or voice in regard to policy. You're forced to pick between electing "representatives" from two parties who are funded by the same billionaires and hold the same interests. Whether Democrat or Republican, they fundamentally still uphold the same neoliberal policies. The only difference is now they're giving up the veil of democracy.