The gaslighting here - using the term "insurrectionists". No, dimbulb donnie, those are the terrorists YOU pardoned.
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Where's the fucking Epstein files?
Trump could get on the mic and say he raped a bunch of kids and his cult would approve and value his honesty. A handful of right wing commentators are already testing the waters with "there's a difference between older kids and really young ones" kind of talk.
He literally went on The View and said he'd totally bang Ivanka.
Megyn Kelly talking about barely legal 15 year olds (not legal) who could pass for much younger.
Totally normal thing to be saying.
More like Megyn R. Kelly, amirite....
What is with the Sasha Riley stuff? I keep seeing murmurings of it, but nothing verifiable.
This is what the "don't react" people don't understand.
If he's gonna declare martial law and take over blue states to cancel their elections; it doesn't matter if we react or not, they're doing it anyways.
ICE is murdering people left and right, and trump is using the fact that protesters are being shot and killed as justification.
People think MLK strategy alone will work, but he was very vocal that it wouldn't have without Malcolm making the only other option violence. Passisive resistance doesn't work when the other option for the abusuers is "just keep abusing me bro, it's cool".
Passive resistance only works when the only two options are:
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Shit gets better peacefully
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Shit gets better violently
We can't let them the have the option of:
- Shit stays the same
They want this escalation, violence just make more violence. Portalad shows how pacific protests are efficient.
Portalad shows how pacific protests are efficient.
I agree with you on a lot of comments, but I disagree pretty strongly here. I do say that we shouldn't escalate to outright violence unless and until there is no other option. I say that because:
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Violence is a ratchet. It will permanently increase the violence. Yes, violence is already being perpetrated, but more innocent people will be killed faster, which will (following this philosophy) increase the justified violent resistance which will increase the state violence, and so on. It's inexorable accelerationism.
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Violence is a very uneven playing field. Yes, Americans have guns, but the state has sooo much more gunpower. This is not a counter-FAFO. Any violence by protesters can and likely will be returned 50x. The administration doesn't even see people as humans beyond PR concerns. Regular people will disproportionately suffer.
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Declaration of martial law or the Insurrection Act will also accelerate violence, and lead to other decay of rule of law, including increased use of concentration camps, edicts that erode or outright suspend the First Amendment (pending totally objective Supreme Court review (...)), suspension of elections, and further abuse of immigrants (yes, it can get much much worse). I'm pretty sure imagining this is Stephen Miller's animating motivation. Speaking of which...
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Stephen Miller certainly has thought many steps ahead to total fascist takeover, and it's clear he needs a casus belli to move to the next step. We don't even have a clear leader, much less one with the training and planning to counterbalance a real fascist with (as I believe Miller has) full control of state power. Do we know what the step after martial law is? Is someone preparing to counter all the next post-1933 steps that are certain to follow? Or are we just reacting? What's the longer strategy?
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The game board and rules are constantly changing. Sometimes the hardest but the smartest thing to do is wait for conditions to improve. Trump's health is objectively bad, he may die on his own tomorrow, losing the "charismatic" figurehead, and also losing the demented, easily-manipulated nexus point for all of the other evil working behind the scenes. Vance can't be Trump and once he's on the throne, his ego will be too big for Stephen Miller. There's a reason why Miller and his white supremacist squads are rushing here - this is the most opportune moment. So why should we rush to give it to them?
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It has worked in other cities already. Portland responded and won by nonviolent resistance. Yes, it may have gone differently if there was a cold-blooded murder like Renee Good. But we choose between (a) resisting escalation and following our model for thwarting martial law that has already worked, or (b) escalating and giving the Trump admin a model they now know will work for martial law in every other city (just kill some citizens and get everyone pissed off enough to declare it). The rational choice is (a).
I know the morally justified, most emotionally satisfying thing right now is to give as we are getting. But that doesn't make it strategically wise.
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Yes, they increase violence, we do nothing, they increase violence... A ratchet literally works when one side does nothing and the other keeps doing shit.
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Violence is happening regardless, doing nothing won't stop it. It's uneven because only one side is doing it, like... It's "uneven" when one side acts and one doesn't.
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They're gonna do it even if we don't react.
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No, he doesnt. Because any idiot should be able to tell by now if they don't get the reaction they want, they'll just fucking lie. Megan Good didn't attack anyone, but they're saying she did and used that as justification to kill her.
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Because we're letting them do whatever they want.
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"Won"... two people got shot a week ago and ICE is still there abusing power, are you experiencing such learned helplessness that a week without a extrajudicial killing on the streets in one city means we "won"?
Edit:
To be clear, I'm not advocating for Mad Max shit.
The threat of a visibly armed populace is enough to melt ICE.
Hell, you can't even really find videos of how they react to armed protestors, because ICE just leaves when they see guns out.
They're out looking for the easiest possible targets. So take a lesson from people who have dealt with this for fucking decades and stay dangerous so you stay safe
