If it were violent treason I might go. It’s just gonna be a bunch of people yelling at institutions that don’t give a fuck what they think.
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The march isn't for those institutions. It's for the institutions that want to stand up to Trump but don't know if the people have their back. For instance, the judges that are currently keeping the Texas National Guard off the streets of Chicago.
I like how Meidas pointed out that little Mikey couldn't even say the actual name of the rallies, since being against kings is kinda America's brand identity.
This is the party that cannot even say the fucking name of the Democratic Party though, so....shrug. They've been saying it incorrectly for 70+ years because they are fucking children. Again, Murc's Law - they are expected, to a one, even at the top of their party, to behave like brats, but the Democratic Party is expected to be the adults at all times. Just imagine if the Democratic Party started to say "Publican Party" at every opportunity, from the President all the way down to liberal talking heads, and no one were to question them about it?
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/01/democrat-party-republican-insult.html
man, that ‘democrat party’ bullshit is one of the very few digs that actually bugs me. and it’s been on for so long that i think there’s a whole generation that doesn’t know the actual name.
i tried ‘republic party’ for a while, but as you can see, i failed to make fetch happen.
It annoys me, too, and probably because it's been going on for 70+ years (multi-generational at this point) and gets zero push back. From people that sure as hell know better and are in a position to ask why Republicans cannot use the right name. Just question it. Embarrass them. Keep asking why adult leaders in their party are being so childish - do they even know the right name?
It's one thing if it's people online goofing or people on the street, whatever. I do it quite frequently and come up with nicknames for the opposition. But I'm not a politician and I'm not a talking head. I have no platform and no power and no prominence.
How an entire party can get away with it and have zero commentary on it in any meaningful way is really wild.
You CAN'T "prove wrong" ideology/prejudice/"religion",
aka any AXIOM-BASED rejecting-of-falsification, belief.
It isn't possible because axioms aren't subject-to-objectivity.
They will either force violence, enforce violence, XOR/AND have false-flag actors in-place to "prove" their "fact".
It is a trap.
Civil-rights are going to get at-least-partially rug-pulled as a result of Saturday's protests.
IF Trump can permanently-remove any threat of accountability, & permanently-deactivate the petition to get the Epstien-files released, HE IS GOING TO.
Social-assertion isn't fundamental-enough, or powerful-enough to do what the left is assuming it must do!
( the left obeys social-pressure: that's left-culture!
Which means that the left can't understand when others don't.
That is why Naomi Klien had to publish "Saying No Isn't Enough" .. or whatever her book was called .. because the left wasn't GETTING it.
Courts, sousveillance, private-investigating-and-prosecuting-right-crime, THAT could apply the kind of pressure required, but social-pressure's the wrong too to produce the required-results.
It's a 1-way tool: it only works against the consensus-motivated left, not against the authority-and-conforming-enforcing right. )
sigh
Expect the left to find the "ground" they're "standing on" to have been gutted, by next week.
& the escalations will only continue progressing: this isn't the BIG tipping-point, this is just one of the buildup ones.
( this was all built on the shit-quality "education" that the US's the-rich-get-good-education-the-poor-don't paradigm enforced, through the last .. century+.
It isn't possible to save a country's life if its population is "educated" into the lower-forebrain's imprint->reaction paradigm, instead of the upper-forebrain's objectivity + considered-reasoning paradigm:
the only question left is which ideology will gain supremacism,
not can-ideology-the-system-be-prevented-from-ruling-us. )
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