Doot doot doot.
The United States is becoming a fascist police state.
Doot doot doot.
Can’t protest, can’t object, can’t question. Just obey!
Any disruption to the profit machine means your comfortable existence is forfeit.
This is fine.
Actually let’s elect more strong men, they’ll surely make it better. /s
I always wondered why the founding fathers were looked at with such admiration and reverence for founding a country with concepts that seemed like common sense. I misunderstood. It wasn’t common sense at all, rogue arrests, intimidation, threats, that is actually common sense to the monkeys that we humans are. I guess I was naive.
When the people rise up, crush them. Sure is easier than listening, responding with ideas, and respecting democratic institutions.
He won in 2016 and he still didn’t accept the result. He spent months insisting that the elections were rigged to prevent him from getting even larger margins, and then he turned the DOJ inside-out to pursue years of “election fraud” investigations intent on keeping a large Republican majority into 2018 (which failed anyway when his fickle white base turned on him).
Of course, Bush pulled the same shit during his time in office, running cover via his own DOJ for dozens of state gerrymandering campaigns (the Texas Gerrymander of 2005 stacked the deck for permanent Republican majority into the modern day). And Reagan pulled this shit via his captured Civil Rights Division before that. And Nixon before that.
When Trump wins in 2024, it will suck again. But it won’t suck uniquely. This is an age-old fight, between a caged/disenfranchised popular majority and a wealthy manipulative white nationalist minority.
A serious red line has been crossed: America’s democratic freedoms, expansive on paper, will simply not tolerate serious dissent on the U.S.–Israel relationship. As criticisms of Israel have become more mainstream, the attempt to shut them down entirely has become more extreme....
“There’s the right to protest, but not the right to cause chaos,” Mr. Biden said into cameras in his first personal remarks on the campus fray in 10 days. “People have the right to get an education, the right to get a degree, the right to walk across the campus safely without fear of being attacked.” Antisemitism, he added, “has no place” in America.
It’s peaceful protests to get him to stop funding a genocide, and he’s saying the protestors are the violent ones…
Like, you realize racists said the same thing about MLK and the civil rights movement?
Biden was friends with most of those senators. When he talks about the “good ole days” he’s talking about hanging out with Strom Thurmond and fighting school integration.
This is who he’s always been.
If protests arent inconvenient, how is it going to work?
Gee, who could have predicted electing someone that spent 50 fucking years loudly declaring that there is absolutely nothing that would ever make him support Israel any less…
Biden talking about current protestors sounds a hell of a lot like trump talking about BLM tho
coming from a true democratic country is kinda sad read this, just accepting the lesser evil of the two options, both paid by billions dollar companies, and still calling itself democratic
I protested that Halliburton cash grab war and it was rough. People young and old would treat us as if we were pissing on the flag. Still waitin’ on them WMDs Dubya!
It was unfortunately fruitless. That’s when I learned that Republicans don’t listen to protesters. They just vilify them in the news and call the police. Now we know they don’t even flinch at an insurrection. They may even call you a patriot.
American citizens need to get used to the idea that their tax dollars will kill innocent people, both domestically and internationally, and that stopping it even temporarily requires massive protest and economic disruption.
If you aren't ashamed to be an American, you haven't studied enough history.
The message was not getting through. Not through the phone calls or the emissaries or the public statements or the joint committee meetings. And so, frustrated that he was being ignored, President Biden chose a more dramatic way of making himself clear to Israeli leaders. He stopped sending the bombs....
Reuven Kahane, a 57-year-old man, drove a car into a crowd of protesters on Tuesday morning at a picket organized by Columbia University Apartheid Divest in front of Barnard trustee Francine LeFrak’s home, a New York Police Department spokesperson told Spectator....
Trinity has agreed to work towards total divestment from Israeli institutions in an unprecedented victory for Trinity Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)....
Ireland is known for having the most support for the Palestinian cause in all of Europe for exactly the reason you imply - they know what it's like to suffer under violent colonial rule.
Irish support for Palestine is well known enough that there was a sporting furor last year when an Israeli team said in a pregame interview "we expect a tough match because everyone knows the Irish are all antisemitic", conflating support for Palestine with antisemitism.
Small-Town Politics, National Consequences: The Supreme Court takes up a Texas power struggle involving allegedly retaliatory arrests of two councilwomen. (www.texasobserver.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/small-town-politics-national-co…
Tactical move (lemmy.world)
Medical residents are starting to avoid states with abortion bans, data shows (www.npr.org)
Biden Says Trump Will Not Accept 2024 Result: ‘I Promise You He Won’t’ (www.huffpost.com)
“The guy is not a democrat with a small d,” the president told CNN’s Erin Burnett....
They Used to Say Arabs Can’t Have Democracy Because It’d Be Bad for Israel. Now the U.S. Can’t Have It Either. (theintercept.com)
A serious red line has been crossed: America’s democratic freedoms, expansive on paper, will simply not tolerate serious dissent on the U.S.–Israel relationship. As criticisms of Israel have become more mainstream, the attempt to shut them down entirely has become more extreme....
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"You couldn't handle my undivided attention." (lemmy.world)
The Serama is a tiny breed of chicken that weighs less than 500 grams (i.imgur.com)
Turning Point or Breaking Point? Biden’s Pause on Weapons Tests Ties to Israel (www.nytimes.com)
The message was not getting through. Not through the phone calls or the emissaries or the public statements or the joint committee meetings. And so, frustrated that he was being ignored, President Biden chose a more dramatic way of making himself clear to Israeli leaders. He stopped sending the bombs....
Motorist charged with assault for striking CUAD protester with car at picket outside trustee’s home (www.columbiaspectator.com)
Reuven Kahane, a 57-year-old man, drove a car into a crowd of protesters on Tuesday morning at a picket organized by Columbia University Apartheid Divest in front of Barnard trustee Francine LeFrak’s home, a New York Police Department spokesperson told Spectator....
Fuck capitalism. (lemmy.world)
joyous skittering of the least-bird (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
cross-posted from: lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/11902186...
Trinity to work towards total divestment from Israel in unprecedented win for BDS (trinitynews.ie)
Trinity has agreed to work towards total divestment from Israeli institutions in an unprecedented victory for Trinity Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)....
FCC explicitly prohibits fast lanes, closing possible net neutrality loophole (arstechnica.com)
Putting applications into fast lanes would violate FCC’s no-throttling rule.
Meet the Country’s Solar Co-op Started by Preteens (www.truthdig.com)
The Phoenix-based organization is helping communities adopt solar energy across the U.S.