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Trump reacts to dead service members by boasting he got a 'great deal' for their lives
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Normally this would end a Presidency within days of making remarks like that.
Nothing about this is normal.
Don't let them normalize this shit.
Join the next general strike or you'll be the next victim he can brag about or blame you for being a terrorist.
Even black mirror author ran out of ideas, and the onion articles seems like ordinary life now.
Yeah Trump has amiably shown what political commentators have said for decades, the US-system is too easily exploited by the executive concentrating power and removing the safeguards other countries have in their setups.
He still had vets and current military vote for him. After. He called them suckers and losers.
That info didn't make it into their NewsMax/Facebook filter bubble. Even if it did manage to slip through via a relative or a coworker, it would have been too late, "fake news" or about those other people.
Exactly. People really underestimate the conservative ~~news~~ bubble.
If you still support someone after they call you a sucker and loser, they might be right about you being a sucker....
One atrocity can dissolve a government. But one atrocity every day can keep even the most hated and incompetent leader in power for a long time. While we‘re busy processing what has happened yesterday he already committed another unforgivable crime. And it goes on and on and on. He simply overwhelms the people with atrocities to the point everyone fights their own battle and debates which of the many crimes is worse and needs to be addressed.
That's been his style of political discourse forthis entire run. It's a neverending fountain of shit with some of it sticking to the wall.
The head of the snake, and whatnot...
I'll join the general strike that lasts for more than a day
I mean, join the one that lasts a day, too.
They shouldn’t call them that. It’s just a walk out. Maybe it’s OK to call it a dress rehearsal or practice run but the point would be to test community support mechanisms and get the word out, not to “put the corpos on notice” or lend virtue to someone’s extra personal day. The truth is it’s not much of a stress test if it’s just 1 day. Also it’s crying wolf. General strikes should damage the economy and an extra snow day just doesn’t. It fails that goal even if it feels nice to say they participated in a “general strike.”
But the more insidious problem is one of logistics, tactics, and reserves.
With protests, there’s often rotating participation so overall support/resource/attention burnout isn’t a brick wall issue. People generally know how many protest days they have to give up front and using them up just means they’ll need to be replaced by another protestor. The point is showing up if you can.
But “1-day general strikes” steal actual person-days from the real general strike (a protracted war of attrition between workers and the economy where the workers hurt themselves to hurt their enemy). Meaning, it actually helps corporations not just by dis-carding useable cards in our deck prematurely_and_ revealing to the opponent our possible hands, it also subtracts drawable cards from our reserves since each of those person-days eventually must be borne by mutual support networks later on.
“1-day General Strikes” are not general strikes!
People are strengthened by working together and organizing community action at any scale, not weakened.
No.
Organized community action that accomplishes nothing emboldens fascists who increasingly realize you pose no threat to them.
Sure, but if the only "working together" is to just whine "I don't like this", that's not really worth the effort is it?
Strength for the people is only really useful when it's used to act.
I agree, but they should be active days, to get people plugged in, motivated, and should not be confused with general strike especially since a bunch of people already mistake general strikes as “boycotting work.” But everything I read says that’s a mistake, because those people end up scabs since they were allowed to think it was another paid holiday.
Maybe local labor unions (who broadly supported the general strike) and community organizations know more about the situation and appropriate response there than either of us 🤷♂️
Yeah those old heads are the ones whose stuff I’ve been reading. But general strike vets are not the ones spinning up these 1-day strikes AFAIK. Feel free to share though.
Most I’ve seen are college students sharing motivational posters Grok made them for the 1-day general strike they wanted to have the Friday before spring break. They’re hyper localized and largely meaningless campus-level social events, not adding stable nodes to the resistance network. (But I’m sure there are others more mindful than that.)
My complaint is simply that my peers don’t try harder to understand the fucking assignment, or ask the experienced, before they Leroy Jenkins.
Can you point to more than a single instance where when a controversy ended a presidency?
It was already normalized.
Surely another protest and a strongly worded letter will set him right.
People over there should skip the "maybe he'll blame me as a terrorist" fear, he's doing that anyway, and just jump right to the action of clean-up. French-style.
The only way to stop it from normalizing is by stopping it from happening. People can't negate the normalizing process by sheer will.
Resist and unsubscribe, if everyone did what they could, might be more effective.
Also, go tax exempt.
people keep saying that. "this isn't normal". yes it is fucking normal. you're just privileged enough you never noticed those in power treating people like this before now. well, now the popular vote just happened to be someone who cares as little for white liberals as he does for minorities. this is what life has always been like for us. time to buckle up and put on your big boy trousers, because if the civil rights movement taught POC anything, it's that shit don't get better without violence.
"this isn't normal" my ass. lol. lmao even.
What's not normal is that this guy doesn't pretend to care about the people he gets killed. It's fairly normal otherwise, but there is an aesthetic difference, and since America is full of aesthetes the difference seems very large indeed.
In other words, we're in the "so rude, no lube" era.
Nowhere is this made more apparent than in Schumer's statement about the war. He is basically saying "I would've gotten on board with bombing Iran, but you have to shmooze me first!".