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MnemonicBump

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  • metric rule

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  • I presume it would be the height of the stack if you printed everything out on paper and put the videos on... Tape? Disc?

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    :thumb-cop:

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  • PR mean Puerto Rico, in this case, and not "public relations"

  • his legacy is admirable

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  • Whaaaat? Is bleeding out not the cure for hemophilia?

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    Will they wake up before it's too late?

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  • I think, while Nazi comparisons are useful, it's really important for people to understand that American Fascism is its own thing. Prior to the Nazis and Fascists coming to power, the U.S. was successfully managing an apartheid state and conducting mass sterilizations and popularizing the ideas of eugenics.

    The U.S. was MASSIVELY influential on Nazi ideology, and American fascist really appreciated that and supported the Nazis in kind.

    American Fascism has grown and developed out of unique American socio-economic conditions (manifest destiny, slavery, the KKK, Jim Crow, militia movement, preppers, protestant work ethic, evangelicalism, etc.) independently from other flavors of fascism, and therefore doesn't map 1:1 perfectly to any other type of fascism.

    The fact that European varieties were actively suppressed for so long while the America variety was allowed to actively metastasize means that the kind of fascism that we're dealing with today is a far more advanced form and it's already off the map, so to speak.

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    Will they wake up before it's too late?

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  • That's a really elegant analogy. I'm going to use that in the future while trying to explain this concept to people. Thank you

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    Will they wake up before it's too late?

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  • Resistance at this stage doesn't look like the People™ taking to the streets and getting into fire fight with federal troops. That would be over and crushed in a matter of days. At this stage resistance is about building the necessary community connections to strengthen your position. Look into prefigurative politics and how they've factored into virtually every revolutionary project.

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    Will they wake up before it's too late?

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  • Yes. Through systems of organized and concerted prefiguration. Help your neighbors. Build networks. Make the state obsolete. Not only can you do your part all by yourself, it is essential to the rest of the movement that you do what you can.

  • The calls for a nationwide (US) shutdown this Friday (Jan 30) are growing louder

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  • No, it's not usually a food service thing. It's usually a manufacturing or an office thing. 4 day work week, ten hour days. 4x10s.

  • The calls for a nationwide (US) shutdown this Friday (Jan 30) are growing louder

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  • Not according to my Minnesota food service employer that requires that I work every weekend (Friday-Sunday) or else get fired. Also, a LOT of places here do 4x10s (or at least give you the option) so the weekend is kind of Friday-Sunday

  • Minnesota judge summons ICE leader to court, threatens contempt sanctions

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  • I mean, I agree with you. Things are probably going to get a lot worse before they can get better, and whatever "better" looks like will not be what it was before.

  • Minnesota judge summons ICE leader to court, threatens contempt sanctions

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  • Nothing. I have no faith in the system, and I would like to see the whole thing torn down and replaced. But since that not happening, I'd rather say and do things that give people hope rather than what I actually believe: Things will have to get much worse before they can get better

  • Minnesota judge summons ICE leader to court, threatens contempt sanctions

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  • Look, either you have faith in the system, and you believe this will help. Or you don't, and you know it won't. It doesn't change anything. What will happen will happen. The wheels are already in motion

  • Minnesota judge summons ICE leader to court, threatens contempt sanctions

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  • That's what I want to happen, but I'm afraid it will lead to A LOT more civil unrest, nationwide, which unfortunately means more people dying

  • Minnesota judge summons ICE leader to court, threatens contempt sanctions

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  • Sure, but that's definitely closer to jailing these fuckers than we've been so far, right? Progressing (middling as it is) is progress.

  • Minnesota judge summons ICE leader to court, threatens contempt sanctions

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  • Not saying that it is the end, just a step forward

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  • That is literally what it says he's going to do. That's what "hold in contempt..." means.

  • I'm tired of the "It's a distraction from the Epstein Files" line. No, Trump's a man who abuses others continuing to do so.

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  • Thank you so much for saying this. There doesn't have to be some kind of conspiracy. Trump is a bad man who hurts people and he is doing what he's always done: bad things that hurt people.

    Then "This is a distraction from the Epstein Files" feels SO 2018 Rachael Maddow. Like, yes, we know he's a pedo. He is also other things, some of which might actually be worse. But no, it literally doesn't matter.

    Here's this guy who is actively stripping people of their rights and bringing full-on American Flavored Fascist Authoritarianism™ and somehow people are still looking for the smoking gun?

  • US citizen says ICE took him at gunpoint in only underwear despite frigid cold and no warrant

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  • Armored door? No, that is absolutely not a thing in the U.S. I've never even heard of that outside of, like, some billionaire's private compound or something

    Edit: And it look like from a cursory search that they are OUTRAGEOUSLY expensive.

  • Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey says city ‘invaded’ by ICE as Pentagon reportedly readying active-duty soldiers for deployment

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  • We're no talking about the National Guard, we're talking about two 11th Airborne Infantry units who has specifically trained for arctic warfare. This is how the period of truly monstrous civil conflict that we all know is coming starts. This right here.

    And in terms of Democrats stepping up: Walz has already staged the Minnesota National Guard and have them at the ready to defend the protesters against ICE and U.S. Army