Lil Mike needs some knee pads and jaw ointment for the work he’s doing.

  • TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca
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    Honestly, I fully expect people to continue to invest their time and effort into ineffective hope and action.

    Epstein files? Dud, their base was never going to care.

    People resigning? By all means, tell them what positions were problematic and leave them open to replace with loyalists. In this regard, at least people have begun circulating CIA guides for people trying to subvert regimes, so at least it has not continued to the same degree as when Trump’s second term began.

    Midterms? Turns out the January 6th guy is going to try to compromise them (never mind that he has persistently ignored congress and gone over them, that right now it is the weakest branch of government). I can’t even comprehend how people are falling on the impeachment line and sinker he’s laying out for them to bite on when he has fully compromised the federal agencies that would be in charge of such an investigation, never mind that he has already been impeached and it lead to nothing. Meanwhile, they continue to take no effective action, because permitting illegal unconstitutional acts peacefully is somehow better than allowing them to commit the same acts but with somewhat less bullshit excuses even when it doesn’t matter how bullshit the excuses has been so far.

    Protests? Not really that effective when you hold them in like-minded societies. They would need to start happening in the red states where people are living within their bubbles to pop them out of them, but you wouldn’t have oligarchs financing the fleets of buses and logistics necessary to begin moving them never mind that the reception would not be even the same as the sort of reception they’ve been exploiting for their MAGA crowds. Protests against abusers just tend to egg them on when not only do they pose no actual resistance, but they can get away with literal murder.

    If Europe had gone up against the USSR, they’d be a lot more cooked than Europe and Ukraine working to stop Russia’s advance. Stop being a schizo-nation that holds “indivisibility” above all else, US, because you no longer hold the same values throughout your territory. Maybe next time don’t ignore the canary of the FCC’s Fairness Doctrine as it is butchered to death.

    Don’t get me wrong, I have little hope for opposition, if any. I can count the governors taking the threat seriously and for what it is with a single hand, never mind that they are essentially acting independently and with questionable support from the state authorities they should supposedly have authority over.

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      because you no longer hold the same values throughout your territory.

      We have never held the same values through the territories. The Constitution is a series of compromises to keep the farmland and urban centers sort of happy. Stark moral differences have been in our blood since day 1; the expansion of slave states (ignoring the native genocide for now) lead to the annexation of Texas and the American Civil War. Nobody is ever held accountable, slavers and secessionists and fascists are allowed to hold political power because the entire house of cards that is the United States is and has always been barely held together through a shared willful ignorance.

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        Don’t let propaganda confuse you. The US was built on genocide and has since been responsible for more deaths than any other nation.

        Just our sanctions alone are estimate to have killed 500k people a year for the last 50 years. That is 25 Million people dead just because the US doesn’t like other nation’s policies.