A real great beautiful test for the 1st. Amendment and the freedom of speech fighters.
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It was a a high holy day a couple days ago when two members of BTS were released from mandatory military service in South Korea.
Not a fan of their music but the artists all seem like upstanding people and their fan base are loyal and also upstanding people.
But I still have to poke fun at our daughter, she pokes back by getting me BTS merchandise.
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Such a missed oppprtunity.
If I were Fogerty, Iâd publicly grant permission to play the song at all Drumpfâs campaigns and events⌠right after explaining in excruciating detail what the song is about.
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Even ignoring the unfortunate (heh) choice of music, this being the first footage Iâve seen of the parade, it looks incredibly drab.
Compare the Bastille day parades that inspired Trumpâs jealousy.
An army has dress uniforms for a reason. Going around in your combat fatigues when not in combat is ridiculous and when you are trying to stage a parade with pomp and circumstance, itâs counterproductive. But thatâs what you get if all you do all day is talk about warfighter ethos.
Look how boring the Americans looked in their pyjamas when they were allowed to take part on Bastille Day
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Occasionally highlighted by a taxi from Marseille dropping off a tardy guest of honourâŚ
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[Whoever does Feminist News is a good writer.]
A video of the parade widely circulating on social media depicts an ancient 80-year-old tank plodding down Constitution Ave, the crowd so eerily quiet the only thing you could hear is the rusty tank treads squeaking, no less diminished than the man it was intended to honor. The video continues for several agonizing minutes with the only audible sound the squeaking of the rusty tank and the soldiersâ heads peeping out of holes gasping for air trying not to suffocate. Trump basically used $50 million of our tax money to humiliate himself.
The parade in DC was forced to start a half hour early because of incoming weather. DC residents were saying online the air was even more humid than usual. The Swamp settled into a thick rainy haze just as the parade was scheduled to begin.
But the real problem wasnât weatherâ it was crowd size.
DC is an absolute ghost town. As the parade began, news outlets on the ground all reported the crowdâpredicted to be 200,000 peopleâwas a mere fraction. One New York Times reporter described the energy as âdesultory.â The tepid and unenthusiastic attendees that did show up couldnât muster as much as a cheer, exhausted and drained from standing in the hot steaming rain for hours.
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The US Armyâs speaker system blared John Fogertyâs âFortunate Sonâ, a famous song about the working class people who are forced to go to war and sacrifice everything while draft-dodging, silver spoon rich kids like Trump simply pay for a phony doctorâs note. The irony was likely unintentional, yet another symptom of a decaying empire unable to maintain a coherent narrative. Speaking of incoherence, the bored troops marched in the sloppiest lines that would make U.S. Army George S. Patton slap a haux.
A video of the parade widely circulating on social media depicts an ancient 80-year-old tank plodding down Constitution Ave, the crowd so eerily quiet the only thing you could hear is the rusty tank treads squeaking, no less diminished than the man it was intended to honor. The video continues for several agonizing minutes with the only audible sound the squeaking of the rusty tank and the soldiersâ heads peeping out of holes gasping for air trying not to suffocate.
Trump basically used $50 million of our tax money to humiliate himself. Outside the 10 miles of tall fencing and concertina wire wrapped around DCâs buildings, and the empty streets now degraded from 30 ton tanks, a nationwide rebellion was afoot.
More than 9 million people came out today for #NoKings in the largest protest against an American president in history.
The thousands of photos and videos online from #NoKings showcase how many millions hit the streets, how positive our energy was, how peaceful and organized we are, that no amount of right-wing disinformation could obscure the stark reality: that our movement has the Juice and MAGA ainât got shit.
Today we found our voice. Today we found each other. Today we reclaimed our beloved Stars and Stripes.
Today we birthed a great and mighty social movement dedicated to saving our democracy from the predator oligarchs who are robbing all of us blind, while they buy politicians and redirect our rage towards oppressed groups, like immigrants and trans people.
Today was the day we begin to turn the tables, not just on Donald Trump, but on the billionaire takers who contribute nothing to our society but an organized system of wealth extraction and widespread deprivation, bolstered by a rickety coin-operated fascist presidency.
âRise like Lions after slumber. In unvanquishable number, Shake your chains to earth like dew. Which in sleep had fallen on you â Ye are many â they are few.â
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In terms of those who did attend trumpâs kremlin-esque parade, it would be amusing to know what percentage of those were journalists there to cover the attendance (see also: who remains signed onto Xitter). âŚshould be magnanimous and suggest there were slightly more sycophants than journalists.
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Different country. They faced their demons and have become a better country for it. Odds on the U.S. doing the same mea culpa? Yeah, Iâm not making that bet.
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Every photo Iâve seen of the military parade in conventional media (the kind covered in our whatâs wrong with the 4th estate thread) is a tight shot. They might use weasel words and even lie outright, but theyâre not yet ready to use CGI to fill in the gaps in photos.
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thread of photographs i took at my local protest (3)
this trump supporter was the only counter-protestor i saw, and the police forced him to stand on the other side of a creek far away from the crowd of thousands â all alone, he helplessly kept trying to shout âyou are the minority!â
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(Itâs very useful! 
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If he wanted people to show up and party, it needed to not be a birthday paradeâŚ
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