Bad shit happens when the military comes into to a volatile situation. This reminds me of a story from the 1992 riots in Los Angeles, to which some Marines deployed. I knew one of them and he told this story I also saw elsewhere — absent his telling it I would have assumed it was apocryphal. /1
The best place to get coverage of the protests in LA is from video from individuals on the scene. The totalitarian government is lying about them and the traditional media is largely unreliable — complicit or fatuously both-sidesey.
Let’s be very clear: Los Angeles is the perfect place for this to play out for the Trumpists. The Trumpists hate California and hate Los Angeles and a vast amount of their base feels the same — even the Trumpists here, who wallow in hating the place they live. /1 RE:
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Fucking Bitch Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social)
The administration gets closer to using the military to crush civilian dissent. Expect deaths, disappearances, and lawless detentions. [contains ...
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The administration gets closer to using the military to crush civilian dissent. Expect deaths, disappearances, and lawless detentions. RE:
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Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social)
Tom Homan: We are making Los Angeles safer. Mayor Bass should be thanking us. She says they are going to mobilize—guess what? We are already mob...
The Trump administration would love to use war-style brutality and violence to attack all protestors. About 35% of the country would cheer it. Remind me why I should feel any community, any common humanity, any need to connect with those people. RE:
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Joel S. (@joelhs.bsky.social)
Pretty clearly setting the stage to use the Insurrection Act to crack down on domestic protests within the US.
Some people condemn professional trolls who share child sexual abuse material. We prefer to take a vaguely amused, aloof stance that treats them as “characters” and denotes our contempt for people with beliefs or values. Tomorrow in the NYT.
Blood libel is the classic antisemitic monstrously false claim that Jews use the blood of Christian children, and has been an excuse for pogroms and persecution for more than a thousand years. Cynical, dishonest, and dishonorable people try to redefine it as “criticizing Israel’s policies.” RE:
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Joel S. (@joelhs.bsky.social)
I seem to be of the minority opinion that it's bad for our historical understanding when people use "blood libel" to mean "well-documented exposé ...
Or at least the sticky-futoned creeps, waifu-pillowed shut-ins, unemployed tiki marchers, restraining order collectors, and incel reply-guys who make up Twitter these days have spoken. RE:
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Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social)
Looks like Musk has found a name for his new political party: The America Party
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We don’t need to back off the American Gestapo and we don’t need to respect its agents. People exercising state violence are not entitled to anonymity. Nor are the people directing the state violence. RE:
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Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
MIKE JOHNSON: From the people who mandated mask wearing for years, it's absurd. They need to back off ICE & respect our agents Q: So you're ok w/a...
Well, I mean, in a way he’s following him https://lionsmane.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:s6j27rxb3ic2rxw73ixgqv2p&cid=bafkreigpcjyl4qskrfsh3yrrce2hjpki3ivaoiy2szfxge3biwofkadoz4