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things will look like by the end of the year, if not just by july.

He went into Target as an asshole to show strength I shop there he arrested citizens there don't piss off women that way.

How long will rumps murder spree be allowed to continue?

They always underestimate We the People. ✊🏼✊🏿✊🏽

"...with a promise of dozens of additional cities as the terrors expand.."

We know how hiding ends. That at least we learned from history class.

I anticipated that if they couldn't get someone to do it for them, they'd do it themselves. Like in the star war show

Yea, their window on that is closing for sure.

Yep. Plus they gang-murdered a white guy who devoted himself to caring for Veterans and did it on video after taking his gun. One of the big emotional hooks on the Right is that they revere Vets/Soldiers and Vets/Soldiers respect them. Another ofc is the 2A. So Pretti is hard to stomach and spin.

seems like they've gone with plan C, 'charlie bit my finger. charlie bit me. ouch charlie. that really hurt'.

Their only response to seeing brute force fail is “They clearly weren’t strong enough, UNLIKE US”

Worse these are not barely english speaking brown skins unalived. As the we see one was a mother of small children who made a wrong turn and the other 2A self protected ICU nurse at the VA. So the argument about immigration dissipates into abuse of power and intimidation.

One right here.

and fight back smart. Not handing them a reason to be more violent. The violence is always unjustified, and they lose ground with every attack.

The simple truth is that, unlike the Iranian regime, they do not have the stomach to murder even 0.038% of their population to put down an uprising. That'd be 126,000 Americans.

im absolutely baffled that the threat of deterrence has worked as well as it has at this scale

These people didn't learn that lesson in two decades of fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, I wouldn't expect them to learn it now

"What? People are actually willing to risk death for their right to free speech?? Imagine that!"

Republicans are garbage people.

You could read the lack of fear/anxiety as complacency, if the hostility/outrage weren't so high

Threaten ME with martyrdom ? Go ahead !

It makes total sense - fear and anxiety occur when there's uncertainty. Anger is the dominant emotion when you know who's to blame.

Narcissists and sociopaths tend to assume everyone acts and thinks like they do, that’s why “every accusation is a confession” keeps being true with them. So when they point a gun at someone they expect them to react like they would, cowed obedience.

What if we spent the last 25 years doing counter insurgency warfare and intentionally tool all of the wrong lessons while staffing a sub-par project 100k goon squad...

Bully mentality. I idea what to do when their intimidation doesn't work.

Like Umberto Eco put it, this is the reason fascist governments will always eventually fail - they are temperamentally incapable of accurately assessing their enemies strength

They also seem stunned that the white people of Minnesota are out in force over their black, brown, and yellow neighbors being brutalized.

Oh, 1000%

"Invading Russia in winter will definitely work this time"

It's the different between killing individuals and murdering groups of people. The thing is that, if the administration was much more violent, it would've succeeded.

As do their heretofore apolitical friends, relatives and colleagues.

This.

We are not at the point of an insurgency but they have clearly forgotten the wisdom that if you have ten insurgents and you kill two, you now have twenty insurgents. Killing people makes them mad.

The MAGA regime has obviously not bothered to look what happens when you press the kinder Americans too hard. As when the South attacked the North or Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, rousing people in the US is not a safe or sane thing to do.

If you want a red-light example of that, check out the updated version of Project 2025 as it relates to the family. It tells women not to go to college or take jobs after high school because their responsibility in life is to marry a male and give birth to "as many children as God sends them."

Oui.

Trump hasn't figured out the same principle works with countries too, see, e.g. Ukraine, Greenland/Denmark.

They’re playing out The Grinch Who Stole Christmas but writing it in blood

Sorry, I don’t mean to spam you with replies but you keep posting back to back bangers 🤷‍♂️

I used to ask "Gender Criticals" how many trans folk they were willing to jail & kill & how many cis women they were willing to have harassed, beaten & arrested to get what they want & if they understood it still wouldn't work. Humans want to be human & will never stop trying to be seen as human.

a century, unless you are Ramesses II holding absolute power for 66 years and basically the only guy in history to both hold absolute power that long and not absolutely stuff it up, takes tremendous political and cultural stability well beyond the confines of COIN policy.

I believe the term of art is "exterminate the brutes."

The undoing of every Fascist movement is that their requirement of their enemies to be both weak and strong renders them totally unable to accurately assess their opponent's abilities. i.e. Leftists are a bunch of weak effeminate pansies who are also somehow going to destroy Western Civilization.

Still waiting on my checks. They must be "in the mail".

There were 7 million people at the October No Kings march. Who has 1b handy to just disappear into crowds like that?

Obviously weren't expecting their agents to be so stupid as to execute, just, whoever they felt like either. Probably thought they might exercise a little discretion for some absurd reason.

Which is silly for anyone aware of history. The resistance knows they are going to win because they always do.

Exactly.

He underestimated Minnesotans.

They don't understand the country as it is because their heads are permanently lodged up their a$$es.

I think they really believed they had "normie white folks" sewn up on their side.

"Oh, dontcha know!" Narrator: ICE did not, in fact, know.

Well, it’s like attacking lefse and lutefisk. But that’s not quite as appealing, so apple pie will do!

That’s the secret of Minnesotans, which Marge Gunderson gets so right—they seem nice and affable, but there’s a core of steel and a strong moral compass. The affability is a way to grease social dynamics, not a sign of weakness.

And day by day, losing his mental faculties to boot.

Kent State!

I'm just saying that everything we're seeing is in the playbook we read, beat-by-beat. We should be prepared for that next step. Preparedness is exactly how we render it ineffective, if and when it happens.

the goons, maybe ... but thiel et al made these plans

Its like they forgot the 1 leason from the war on terror. If you have 10 opposition forces and you kill 1 of them how many opposition forces do you have left? The answer is 20.

Nobody expects the Minnesota coalition!

It truly is anarchism in action, whether the people doing it realize it or not

It's had the opposite effect. More people want to film, protest, and help their neighbors.

They also helpfully polarized us against (non-medical) masks.

it's easy to tell the people of Texas that "Minnesota is being overrun with violent illegulz!" but it's hard to tell the people of Minnesota that when it's not true.

Precisely this

This does not usually happen to my notifications (not complaining, I'll mute it when I need to)

Well when you've self-poisoned on the whole "paid agitators" thing it *is* hard to believe there's a real resistance

And honestly it's easy to see why given that every single business moron and titan of industry has immediately gone into full ass kiss mode at the merest hint of things but being fully awesome for them personally

Notice that Zuckerberg is allowing all content on his platforms-especially Instagram & Threads. He’s already backed away from censorship.

We are sinking TIKTOK. Closing our shops, emptying carts. We are leaving TikTok en masse. The plan is to make these CEOs hemorrhage.

@georgemonbiot.bsky.social

the regime isn't the brightest.

Yeah just look at these assclowns. They’re just astounded that the normies aren’t having it and think there must be some diabolical machinations afoot.

Most prescient lines from This is America: This a celly/ That's a tool

The administration was right that the networks would avoid it if they could. Once the phone videos were circulating online it was impossible to stop.

They don't understand that people can think differently than them. They don't understand empathy or actual values. Their accusations that "no one would care about something unless it benefitted them" were self reports. It's apolitical to say that MAGA is composed of the worst of us.

This came out of that big NYT article interviewing like 40+ FBI people about Kash Patel the one guy who was like "I tried to explain that 'Antifa' wasn't an organization, it was an ideology, and their protests were 1A protected, and then they fired me"

Idiots. I‘ve never felt more protective of my community than when ICE was active here (Chicago). You’re attacking our homes. They don‘t understand how not-sociopath humans feel.

Kinda figure they underestimated how many of every type of person who doesn't like them there are including nearly all the types under the sun

Reminding politicians that the power they may have been helped to by corporations and oligarchs is inherently vested in the goddamn people. Fuck the bastards.

Turns out these are midwestern white normal people.

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