Here we go. Buckle up and arm yourselves.
The Confederacy was in a state of rebellion too. He’s equated standing up to ICE with the Confederate’s bombing of Ft. Sumter.
ELI5, If Republicans in general don’t want federal control, they want de-regulation, then why they are supporting federal control of California?
They are only against federal control when it’s them who are being controlled. They are fine with it happening to other people. It’s how they can claim to be pro freedom out of one side of their mouth and anti-freedom with the other. Laws for thee, none for me.
Right to freedoms of assembly and expression.
They need to chill.
And listen.
“Why won’t these fascists just chill and talk things out?!?!!?”
Yeah… not exactly their style.
So the trump administration is fully admitting that the insurrection attempting to block the certification of the Presidential election 2021 on Jan 6 was open rebellion?
Holly shit. I hadn’t seen that last image you posted before. I didn’t realize the Jan 6 insurrectionist brought flexcuffs. That is quite disturbing. Who the fuck were they planing to kidnap or take hostage with those flexcuffs?
They were probably associated with the ones that built the gallows outside on the lawn. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jan-6-gallows-construction-new-video/
I know this is sarcasm but, sadly, they don’t. I have talked to a few of them. Some either say it is patriot8c and others said it didn’t happen.
You can’t win
others said it didn’t happen.
Who is it they acknowledge trump pardoned when he got into office? If it didn’t happen, then there as no one to pardon. Yet trump came out and gleefully pardoned the lot of them. If it was “antifa” that did it, why did trump pardon antifa?
Keep in mind I’m not questioning you on this but them, and I know the mind of a MAGAt is finely tuned to support cognitive dissonance.
They admit no such thing.
“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” - Frank Wilhoit (not the political scientist who passed away in 2010, a younger one who is alive still).
Can California please just withhold taxes already and put this country out of its misery?
They can’t, you pay taxes directly to the government.
Yep. Totally true. You are born, and the taxes are automatically deducted from your existence. There is no way for a state to change the amount paid, or to whom the taxes are paid. Absolutely impossible.
I’m all for CA residents paying their federal taxes to the state, but that’s going to require a lot of faith that the state will protect them from the feds.
There are plenty of ways around that, but it requires actual rebellion.
You know if you shatter a spark plug, those little bits will 100% break a car window when thrown?
Great documentary!
Isn’t this the same as saying *the government is working against the will of it’s populace"
So is the red line crossed yet or is the goal post once again some indeterminate point in the future.
History won’t tell the beginning of the Trump regime at that indeterminate point. It began when he rode down that piss yellow escalator.
" In addition, the Secretary of Defense may employ any other members of the regular Armed Forces as necessary to augment and support the protection of Federal functions and property in any number determined appropriate in his discretion." 100% illegal according to Posse Comitatus Act.
Deploying Marines, Space Force, Navy Army or Airforce in the US against the US is prohibited
Minor nitpick: national guard soldiers under title 32 is totally fine (the George Floyd protests), however that requires the state governor’s approval. Trump bypassed that by putting them on title 10 orders which is active duty. Those are typically only for training or overseas deployment, and not for actual deployment within the US (though I think the south border mission may be an exception).
So, he’s already violating the law, but also putting provisions to use active duty soldiers as well which is double against the law.
National guard is specifically exempt when State controlled.it’s a question of nationalization now.
I wonder now what my ex-housemate thinks of Trump. He is one of those centrist types who thinks excessive power from one side needs to be counteracted by the other, but mostly pay lip service to the right. He dislikes the right in his country which ruled for 13 years and voted centre left, but supports Trump and right wing parties in Europe because of too much immigration in the West. But at the same time, he supports Palestine. My ex-housemate means well for the most part, but he is one of those men who are vulnerable to disinformation.
He dislikes the right in his country which ruled for 13 years and voted centre left, but supports Trump and right wing parties in Europe because of too much immigration in the West
If feels like you’re burying the lede here.
“In his country” suggests he’s an immigrant. This means he too, is an immigrant right? How does he resolve this hypocrisy? Or when he says “too much immigration in the West” is he just a racist and is referring to people with different color skin?
“In his country” suggests he’s an immigrant. This means he too, is an immigrant right? How does he resolve this hypocrisy?
Duh, because he’s one of the good immigrants.
To be fair, there are two different kinds of immigration: legal and illegal. Some (not all, but some) immigrants who came via the proper legal channels resent those who didn’t, and of those who feel that way, some feel that way for selfish “screw you, I got mine” reasons and others feel that way for genuine reasons, such as the fact that supporting illegal immigration is, to a certain extent, supporting the human trafficking and drug trafficking that goes hand-in-hand with it. Borders do serve a purpose and believing that illegal immigration should be curtailed isn’t necessarily a hypocritical position for an immigrant.
HOWEVER, that isn’t to say that ICE is the answer.
Or the person you’re replying to, talking about an EX-house mate is the the immigrant. You’re reading suggestions that aren’t there.
There are two possible scenarios for who is the immigrant. Both of them make the ex-housemate look like an asshole.
The other that you’re referring to would mean the housemate was complaining about OP, as OP was the immigrant that he says there is too much of. I mean its possible, but I wouldn’t expect OP to then say “My ex-housemate means well for the most part”.
Microwave dispersal cannons can be blocked by a large poster covered in aluminum foil. Just be sure to attach it to a wood stake.
Sound cannons are loud enough to work through strong ear protection, but sound waves are still air pressure pulses. You can disrupt the flow of the pulse with a solid enough curved shield.
If necessary, storm matchs have their own oxidizer. You can light it and wind won’t put it out. Styrofoam and gasoline is sticky. Use that information however you want
Do not use a belt to stop blood flow. Get some proper tournequtes (I don’t remember how to spell it). Slide it on, and turn it until the bleed stops. If you think it’s too tight, turn it some more.
Edit: most military vehicles are diesel fueled. They are pretty thirsty, so be sure to share water with them. Right in the fuel tank is good enough.
microwave canons
I did not know about these, but some quick searches suggest that they pose a major threat to people’s eyesight as they can boil your retina before you really feel anything when used at a low strength.
Messed up these are used at protests, fuck these fascists.
Eh, from what I’ve watched “low strength” is still quick enough to trigger people to scatter.
Remember, it obeys r squared, so if they use it and want it to be effective at distance, they can’t reduce the strength a lot.
Do not use a belt to stop blood flow. Get some proper tournequtes (I don’t remember how to spell it). Slide it on, and turn it until the bleed stops. If you think it’s too tight, turn it some more.
If you’re worried about blood loss, there are some online resources for how to do first aid. I think https://www.stopthebleed.org/training/ was recommended last time this came up.
I read you need to be careful with tourniquets, because they’re quite painful and if used inappropriately can cause long term damage. Used appropriately they can save a life, but you don’t want them to be the first tool you reach for.
Long-term damage is only really a danger after a couple hours in a proper tourniquet. Something makeshift in order to survive to a hospital is always fine. It’s like CPR: breaking ribs is a small cost to pay for survival.
That’s a fair point, and thank you for linking stop the bleed
If you curve the aluminium foil somehow, you can actually refelct it back. They did tests on youtube where they used a flipped riot shield and it work.
Sounds like you could make a curved protest sign with plywood and then hide some foil between the plywood and a paper/cardboard layer for a fairly inconspicuous shield that can block and even reflect both microwave and sound cannons.
Old spark plugs are really handy for craft projects since you can break them and make pretty mosaics
Sound cannons are actually pretty weird, in that they don’t work like you’d imagine them to work. They produce sound when multiple beams of ultrasound collide with an object, so if they’re pointed at you, you’re the one producing the sound that hurts you. That’s why they’re so effective.
Some people online have done some tests, and thin cardboard appears to be the best way to stop them. Put the thin cardboard before you, and it stops most of the sound. It can be the cardboard from a poster, if you have one.
Ear protection headphones (for workshops) also help, and their effectiveness is enhanced further by wearing small earplugs inside. Active noise cancelling headphones don’t help and can even be counter productive, so don’t use those.
To be a little more pedantic, they send ultrasound frequencies and they “degrade” into regular audible sound waves when they collide with something (combination of harmonic effects and destructive / constructive interference). The reason they send ultrasound instead of using regular directional speakers is because it’s smaller wavelength is easier to aim so much more of the energy moves forwards, so you don’t hear much noise coming from the source itself.
That’s why they work for “crowd control”. A strong enough regular speaker would bother the operator too much.
The noise cancelling part was particularly fascinating. Not only was it ineffective, it amplified the sound. I think its because noise cancelling circuitry relies on the ability to create a signal frequency that cancels out the initial waveform. That’s all well and good, but I think the sound cannons use separate speakers out of phase. Since the noise cancelling headphones produce a signal in phase with the first frequency detected, the microsecond slight delay causes it to be added to a subsequent phase boosting the power.
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Would hearing protection that electronically filters sound be able to cancel out sonic cannons?
You cannot electronically filter out sound. That’s not what they do. They just emit the same sound they hear in the opposing phase. This is risky with sonic weapons.
Calling it…Trump declares California to be in rebellion and suspends their votes in the electoral college and congress in the next elections.
This doesn’t read as just California. It’s the whole country.
Only the blue parts
The red states will also switch to only allow men to vote. They are chomping at the bit to end the 19th.
No, they are hell bent on returning to the 19th century. But with oil this time.
The guys and gals in the red states are doing everything they can to be unattractive to potential partners. It is a novel way to Darwin oneself out of the gene pool, I must say.
So much other stuff will happen before then
3 months ago https://lemmy.world/comment/15443605
Which would only intensify the situation and draw other states into the conflict.
In addition, the Secretary of Defense may employ any other members of the regular Armed Forces as necessary to augment and support the protection of Federal functions and property in any number determined appropriate in his discretion.
Oh this ia what they want. They are chomping at designating leftists as enemies of the state.
The government in general is crumbling and it’s corrupt “leaders” will need to ramp up authoritarianism as the constituents begin to question it’s legitimacy.
They’ll make use of dissenters by putting them in work camps, easing the need for cheap labor, and allowing the remaining population a chance at hiding from their duty to protect constitutional rights by continuing to provide material comforts.
Always have been Abbie Hoffman is a decent example. Plus like the whole McCarthy thing.
