Based on Trump’s current approval rating (42%) I think 1/3 of Americans are lunatics. These people are not going away and cannot be put down. America’s sundown is unstoppable.
They are lunatics by very basic standards. Like do not shot protesters in the face. Do not invade other countries that did nothing to you. Do not threaten other countries that did nothing to you. Do not break doors without a warrant from a judge. Do not support a pedophile covering up his crimes.
1/3 of Americans support these lunacies - hence they are lunatics. And unfortunately they are too many. So America's sundown is inevitable.
From a technical standpoint, of course they can be put down. Just like you can be put down for obviously being a thought terrorist, you just said they are lunatics and now you are a potential threat to them.
See how easy it is to make you an enemy of the state that needs to be neutralized before you can become trouble?
As soon as those 42% become the majority they will start to think about to put the opposition down. Because that is what lunatics do.
You and I talk things out, others ask you what kind of American you are with an ar-15 aimed at your chest. Guess who wins that argument? It’s not one of us two. It’s the guy throwing our bodies in a ditch.
American law enforcement is already executing people protesting the lunatic behavior in plain sight and the vice president said they have full immunity doing so. You are no longer allowed to talk about reality, there is only one reality now, that of the president and his inner circle.
Once the military is deployed via the insurrection act you have people who are trained killers with absolute immunity on the streets that can easily rally up the opposition, and there will be no concentration camps or body’s piling up.
Yes, a US soldier can decline any unlawful order but what is unlawful is decided by the man that according to your Supreme Court has unlimited power. They were trained to kill terrorists and you are a terrorist now. They get a raise and a medal, why would they decline the order to kill what the government deemed valid targets and Terrorists?
Trump also has it easier than the nazis.
We live in the 21st century, the Nazis had a major logistics problem. People physically had to look at Jewish people getting starved and transported like cattle to the concentration camps in trains. The holocaust is very well documented because it all happened in plain sight.
The US troops made German citizens walk through the camps after they freed what was left of the poor Jewish souls surviving the nazi atrocities. Please watch it.
those civilians all knew what happened there and you can see it in their faces. They did do shit about people who were born in Germany and had the same passport getting slaughtered in the millions.
What makes you think your peers are different if their life and those of everyone they love is under constant threat via government ai surveillance and the military roaming the streets, kicking in the doors of your neighbors and friends and they never reappear?
and Russia shows how easy it is to let people disappear in those to hide casualties from the press and people at home.
You also got a pretty bunch of those containerized incinerators in every major US city after Covid bodies were piling up in hospitals and had to be disposed efficiently and out of sight from the press. You already have the holocaust infrastructure in place.
It doesn’t need to go in this direction, but seriously do you think this is an unrealistic scenario with everything you see happening in the US day by day?
Guess we will find out sooner than later. I really hope I’m wrong with everything, but be sure if push comes to shove, we Germans will return the favor and free the US from the fascists this time.
Keep your heads down and your spirit up, trump will pass one or the other way and hopefully we can go back to a saner version of shared reality than this nonsense we currently live in.
This is setting things up for a real conflict. Protesters, National Guard called by Walz, Troops coming in. I am absolutely certain the 1500 soldiers going in are hand-selected MAGA morons. Checkmate ... martial law declared!
In similar situations overseas the dictatorship's troops have sometimes been stopped by civilians blocking their path and putting flowers into their rifle barrels. It really depends on how far the dictatorship has managed to split the troops away from the civilians they're supposed to be protecting. The IRGC is an extreme example of that.
Though they've been seen and photographed in action locally, it's unclear how many are active, how many on standby, what plans are. So "deployed" is not that useful of a designation.
No, they don't. Ask any health official. We just had a high schooler die of meningitis 3 months ago, this kid was a star student, everybody loved him. 3 days later, DEAD. Why? Because his parents had "thought it best" to not give him the 2-shot meningitis vaccine. Vaccines are safe and proven. We in pharma, you know the actual people doing the medicine, spend billions to test them against giant cohorts to ensure safety and efficacy. Some rando on the internet feels they know better? Sit down please, you do not. Go get a medical degree ... you do not have the expertise to be credible on this, and neither does RFK.
I'm happy you have surgeons to consult. But surgery has nothing to do with pharmacology. That's like asking a cardiologist about your cancer. The specialization of therapeutic area, let alone profession, is intense.
We'll find out the hard way. I'm pretty public about our process so if my choices lead to adverse consequences I won't hide it: https://wiki.roshangeorge.dev/w/Pregnancy
This comment is not 100% open and shut correct. But it is the correct 95% starting point and only worth deviating from after a significant amount of diligent work. If one doesn't understand this, then one simply has not yet appreciated how much work it takes to form even a single informed opinion.
Also, wasn't revisiting the overall advice in the context of smaller ethnic and gender subgroups one of the things that many researchers were doing before the angry mob overran and burnt down our institutions?
I'm not sure that isn't the moderate position. Every one of them are certified criminals. They all need to stand trial. I pledge to do everything in my power to ensure that they do. So say we all.
See also the mind-boggling sign-on bonuses they get. They know ICE being the 8th most funded army in the world can't last forever. The left wasn't allowed to do a wealth transfer from rich to poor so instead the right did a massive wealth transfer from all of us to the most racist of us.
But the real issue here is his party. It's gone from 'economically conservative with preference for free markets, austerity, and military solutions' all the way over to 'Populist with slavish devotion to a fascist leader and a reactionary cause'. Romney now looks like a liberal compared to his party. We haven't had a party this bad since the know-nothings, federalists and the whigs, all of which self-destructed, and we haven't had a leader this bad since Andrew Johnson. It would be fun to think about what would have happened differently if we weren't on the brink of losing our democracy and/or being regressed back to 1890.
100% this. I run a software company and we never run out of new things to build. Our issue is velocity, we would be foolish to lay off employees, rather we must use AI to build things 50% faster if we can. What AI will do is further level the playing field in software, just like tractors allowed farms to expand in size.
Humans are terrible at it. There's a short sci fi story where an AI selects the next American President from all 350M citizens. I'm here for it. I think it's a fantastic idea.
If they will do it to them, they will do it to you, just wait. We can have zero tolerance for the intolerant ... there's a galactic difference between a few individuals voicing their support for the suppression of hate speech and a nation taking action to make examples of free citizens in foreign countries.
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