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The community dedicated to boycotting the US until they stop fascism, restore full democracy and start following international law.
Americans have a moral obligation to resist Donald Trump and project 2025 at every turn.
America is a flawed democracy currently being ruled by oligarchs. Stop the backslide! Dont let America become the next Hungary.
America needs to challenge the court rulings of citizens united v. fec and shelby county v. holder, protect the media, implement independent district drawing, and the single transferable vote so they don't end up having people stay home in life-changing elections because they cannot vote for their favourite candidate.
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So an unelected figurehead of the federal government has come to my state, had a senator I voted for arrested over asking a question which is his civic duty to ask, and has now made threats at removal of my elected govenor as well as an elected mayor of one of the cities here.
At which point would these actions be considered tyrannical enough to provide a decent argument for a use of the 2nd amendment in court?
That's a bridge that we're just going to have to cross once they completely take over. We need them to have as much power as possible before we make a move. Also for the love of God don't read, don't protest, don't act. Just wait.
Your sarcasm isn't blatant enough unfortunately.
The 2nd amendment just says the government can't take away your guns. It doesn't say anything about it being okay for you to use them against the government.
I mean, hell, police kill people all the time, but the courts treat having a gun on your person as a reason the cops had to shoot you. So they can't take away the gun, but they can take away your life for having it.
Basically you can use it as a security blanket to rock yourself to sleep at night, but get anywhere near the gestapo with it and you die a "terrorist."
2nd amendment held up in court the moment first legal citizen was detained by ice.
They’re really targeting California as a whole now. The state that supported the union so much over history. Republicans must really feel jealous that it is the richest state.
california needs to fucking secede and newsom needs to sack up and put the money where his mouth is.
You threaten to withhold federal taxes. Shit continues, You fucking do it. Once they know your threats are empty, the game is fucking over.
Whoever told you that, is your enemy
Now something must be done
It has always been this way. If you were a Hunter S. Thompson reader. You knew this way back. If you read about the real American history. You would know that the military was and has been used against Americans by terrible leaders. Just look at the Veteran Camps during the great depression. Requesting their war payments. Patton was sent in to clear them out. America has always been like this. It's never been a good place for most people. Where I grew up. The sheriffs office committed a mass murder against striking coal miners in the 1800's. This country is not a good place. Never has been.
No it hasn't "always been this way". Abuses like this are unusual and indicate the sorry state of the current regime. Dismissing it as normal is sloppy and irresponsible.
Did you not read my whole comment? Union busting has been a thing carried out by police and sheriffs all over this country. We have never had a good nation. Not until the New Deal was created. And now all of that is being wiped away.
Im really excited for the next election when the Dems force us to vote between Newsom and whatever mentally unstable nazi the republicans find, and we lose every branch again...
Because a sizable part of the population is apparently still too fucking stupid to realize that's still a no-brainer decision to make.
Yeah, our countrymen are dipshits, but let's not undersell how complicit the Dems are by constantly choosing to run candidates that their voting base feels they have to vote for begrudgingly.
And let's not pretend like the decision isn't between unregulated capitalism, and fascism. Yes one is the better choice, but I mean Jesus Christ it's like trying to decide if you want to die by injection in 10 years or being boiled alive today, you die either way.
Hard to win elections when your voting base can't be excited about you. Hence why gop is winning, it's easier for a fascist to appeal to a dipshit than it is for a capitalist to appeal to a voter with the ability to think for themselves.
That's a far too progressive stance for the Democrats. Maybe we should try Hillary again?
Senator Alex Padilla (D-Ca), interrupted and arrested while asking questions of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem related to ICE. She's the former South Dakota governor who spent $5 million of her state's COVID money on a tourism campaign. You might remember the dept of Homeland Security was created (along with the term "homeland") by George "Dubya" Bush after 9/11, as "not a whole new agency" but a reorganization of parts of existing agencies, to coordinate their work (to protect Freedom™). Their budget this year is $107 billion. Sound like a whole lotta coordinatin' goin' on.
Ooooooooo corruption :(
Apart from the obvious "arresting a senator for asking questions" thing, is whatever's happening on this picture standard procedure for arresting an unarmed, unthreatening person in the US? It looks like they're arresting a terrorist or a dangerous suspect
No normally. I think they throw a knee on the neck for 9 to 10 minutes.
Got to do it for the officer's safety, asshole!
Have you thought about the blue lives?!
not 100% standard. but yeah, pretty standard. If its a rich white dude, generally the arrests are a lot gentler.
Since the 2001 Patriot Act, the USA trashed their last gram of freedom.
So when they turn to the camera guy at the end they repeatedly keep saying you're not allowed to record due to FBI rights. That is something I've never heard before.
Unless they are trying to refer to something from the Patriot act the FBI has the same rights as everyone else.
That is because it is made up bullshit that all ~~Nazis~~ law enforcement say to justify suppressing media.
The dumb woman talking said “liberate the city from socialists”. Doesn’t it bother Americans that a person in her position, is so fucking dumb she doesn’t even know what socialism is?
It reminds me of Putin saying they’ll save Ukraine from nazis.
It reminds me of Putin saying they’ll save Ukraine from nazis.
that's because it's written in the same ink.
For those like me who didn’t know what exactly this was about, here’s a video of the incident:
Thank you.
What the actual fuck.
I watched this on a few sources. One had better audio than the others, and you could hear one of the "deputies" muttering quietly to the others that they were being filmed. I wonder how much more escalated and violent this might have been if they hadn't had that realization that they were being recorded.....
More of us than them, imagine what we can do together. Give them the boot!
Maybe now that they're getting arrested too, the Dems will actually do something.
Maybe.
Narrator: "They did not."
Yes, it is. All those white men had the freedom to push that Mexican guy to the ground and handcuff him. See, that's real freedom, according to the Ten Commandments. It's why we should put the Ten Commandments in every schoolroom, so people know what they say, and how they say DEI is bad. It's right next to the Commandments about how oil belongs to America and the KJV is the only valid translation.
Every one of those officers needs to face serious consequences. If they can’t go after trump, go after all these toadies who are willing to play stormtrooper
Newsom has been aggressively rounding up homeless people for months, and threatening cities who protect them.
Do not go thinking he is one of the good guys.
There's a difference between thinking he's "one of the good guys" and getting glad he's one of the few people in power standing up to trump, or at least threatening to.
People like him certainly should be held accountable for their bullshit. But bringing it up everytime someone is greatful he's standing up to fascists only helps the fascists.
"liberate this city from the social & burdensome leadership" sure sounds like an attempt to take over a city by a federal employee.
Moff Noem anyone