Impressive piece of journalism.

Good. He’s overusing his “witch hunt” rhetoric, in a situation where it’s unusually easy for anybody to verify the details for oneself.

I wonder how tempted he was to hit that “report spam” button.

Just gotta say, that Colorado law is ridiculous. I’m all for good conditions for farm animals, but 1 sq ft per chicken isn’t helping. A single square foot is about the size of a chicken. The thing is still in “a cage”, that cage is just formed of other chickens now.

I wonder if lobbyists got to them to water down the law.

Just fyi, the Israelis use their own Merkava main battle tanks, not the Abrams. If I remember right, it’s more heavily armored, with a shorter cruising range.

I see, thank you for the detail.

According to the White House, El Salvador’s government received $6m (£4.62m) to take the detainees

Ahhh, that’s the part I was missing. I thought the Central American govts caved awfully fast after initially protesting the deportations. This is going to get ugly, if they’re basically being turned into a revenue-stream. El Salv will need to ensure they make a profit of some sort on that 6m.

… he’s a Mennonite, lot of them won’t even use the internal combustion engine. It’s one of those low-tech sects of Christianity like Amish.

One major issue with this: The left and right are fighting for different things.

The far right would ultimately like a military dictatorship of sorts. In order to pull this off in a way the majority of the public would accept, they need people to be afraid, to have violent enemies that can only be defeated with organized military force.

The left, on the other hand, is fighting for civilian rule. This is based on the idea that laws need to apply to everyone, and that military force should not be used to suppress the public at large. In order to pull this off, it must be true that military force applied domestically is not actually necessary to have a functioning society.

Because these goals are fundamentally different, the methods of accomplishing them become different by necessity. Some methods strengthen and empower the goals of the right, other methods strengthen and empower the left. These are distinct, and it’s very important not to be manipulated into playing into the hands of your opponent.

You don’t need to have full mutually assured destruction for nukes to operate as a deterrent. It’s a matter of degrees, rather than some sort of all-or-nothing safety.

What did you think “make America great again” meant? That “again” is a keyword.

If true, does that mean he’s going to stand up against any attempts Trump makes to trample on personal liberties? As I recall, when he spoke at the Libertarian Convention, their reaction indicated they remembered what they (and he) really stand for.

https://youtu.be/dhgjnAxD6-k

Interesting to be cutting oversight during a time when Boeing was having so much trouble with its planes.

Pfah, weak. A coal powered turbine delivers superior performance, and coal is cheaper than snow leopard food.

It’s not about this being some sort of firewall to stop him in his tracks or anything, the opportunity for that was last election, and we failed. It’s now about being an effective opposition, just like they try do when we win.

To paraphrase AOC, there needs to be sand in his gears. Yeah, he can push a lot of stuff through anyway, but we definitely want it to be as difficult as possible, costing them extra effort.

Here’s a kinda tired-seeming AOC chit chatting about all this stuff for 90 minutes on livestream:

https://youtu.be/CVgNJf6CsBA

Though the main battle is still over teaching logic and critical thinking to the public and individual civic dialogue imo.

Other people being violent towards you does not make your actions violent. Also, there’s actually been many general strikes that were not attacked by state forces at least. There have probably been hundreds of general strikes through history. They’re common enough that they’re not really covered in history classes past a sentence or two, if at all. It was actually a general strike that staved off the first coup against the German civilian govt post-WW1.

Organizing, I’m not sure.

A general strike (which is a peaceful method) beats martial law, not the other way around. Not easy to organize by any stretch, but historically effective.

Thank you for relating your personal experiences. I feel like a lot of people don’t really have a good sense for how the authoritarian playbook works in the modern day.

If anyone wants a more professional analysis, Ruth Ben-Ghiat is a historian with a background in Italian fascism, and specializes in modern authoritarianism.

Just remember, if we lose then things get worse, so maybe don’t execute before you’ve laid some proper groundwork. I’m sorry, but in real life, we don’t always emerge victorious.

Alright, that’s fair.