Wait, they want to get rid of 88,700 preK-12 students? 
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Art of the Deal! 
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When I got my MS in Engineering, the first year was paid for by an NSF fellowship. This will decimate graduate level science studies in this country.
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Where is the road in the fantasy image? Thereās a circular path around the buildings that connects to the former runway, but thereās no connection beyond that. (I see some lines leading away from the strip, but those look more like drainage or other utility than vehicle access points.)
Iām not trying to make a better concentration camp for these assholes, Iām just looking at this and seeing āwhatās wrong with this picture?ā
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Yeah, Iāll actually believe the two lists are mostly accurate. The capitalist model seems like a check list of horrible ideas while the āsocialistā model actually benefits the citizens and potentially lead to a better city. If it wasnāt Fox News, Iād assume it was a promotion of the latter.
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Anyone got the odds of when trump pardons P Diddy?
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Weāre getting to the point were there are few solutions left that donāt involve a civil war or armed rebellion. I really hate to say that because it feels like a lose to even consider that as an option, but the peaceful options you list are becoming less and less effective. We no longer have enforcement of our constitution or laws at the highest levels of government. Whatās actually left when those checks and balances have fallen away?
How do we keep from falling to that without allowing the nation to continue to fall? Iām really asking here. I dread both that we will wait too long to take the next steps in fighting back and that we will have to fight back at all.
Fuck I hate this timeline.
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Unless you are advocating for shooting people, these are our only viable options, really. Protests work, otherwise the fascists wouldnāt be so intent on stopping them. Voting is the most potent weapon we have, which is why they would love to end elections. I will be watching intently the responses to the off-off year elections this fall and how they will trigger the fascists. (Yes, that is making assumptions, of course.) If they do take away these expressions, then we will see things spiral very quickly
I pray this is not how this ends. But I just do not know.
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Vietnam will pay the United States to ship its goods there? That seems like fantastical bullshit to me. As usual, the 20% will be an additional tax passed on to the consumer for the things we most often import from Vietnam like clothes, shoes, and food. I donāt even know what āa 40% Tariff on Transshippingā is supposed to mean.
What will Vietnam realistically import from the United States? Trump talks about SUVs being exported to Vietnam. Does he not know that the average yearly income is around $8000 USD a year there? Whoās going be buying pricey American SUVs there?
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Why? He got off of the most serious charges. He may not serve any more jail time.
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Heās still facing 10 years according to the stories.
But I still wouldnāt be surprised if trump pardoned the very good man for being wrongfully convicted by a witch trial.
Combs still faces considerable prison time. At sentencing, the prostitution transportation charge carries as much as 10 years in prison per count. Prosecutor Maurene Comey said the government would seek the maximum of 20 years.
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The right has already begun the violence- assassinating Democratic politicians, running over protestors with cars, illegally disappearing people off the streets, driving people further into poverty while simultaneously taking away their healthcareā¦ as far as Iām concerned, we ARE past the point where violence in return is justified, but it still doesnāt feel like a viable option, not just because Iām a pacifist but because of practical limitations.
Iāve never owned a gun before, Iām over 40 and continually exhausted, emotionally fragile, and busy taking care of a father with extremely advanced Alzheimerās. I donāt have time, money or energy to buy the tools of violence or learn how to be violent without literally sacrificing my fatherās life for the cause, and even if I did, who does one shoot to make everything better in a country where almost every politician is either a fascist or a fascist collaborator, the billionaires and mainstream media are all on their side, and a third to half the citizens are willing, eager Nazis? I canāt think of a single instance of violence I could commit that wouldnāt be instantly throwing my life away with no negative impact to fascism- heck, it might even make them stronger because theyād be able to point to someone on the opposing side being violent and scary, and for once they wouldnāt be lying.
So the only violence Iād be willing to commit would be as part of an actual, organized, trained army in an actual Civil War, and even at this stage I have a hard time imagining who would lead such a thing, where and how it would start, etc. Meanwhile, the fascists will continue to hurt and kill anyone and everyone they can because they know the system is on their side and it wonāt cost them any support with their base.
Iāll continue to protest, Iāll continue to vote (if the option remains). But Iāve done those my entire life and itās led us here. They slow fascism down, but they do not stop it or reverse the damage. The system will not save us, itās already failed us. I donāt think thereās a peaceful way out of this any longer.
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The more this goes on, the more I tend to agree. Iām not there yet, though. Still hoping for a peaceful way out. Especially in a setting where the central government not only holds the reigns of the armed forces and police, but seems unspeakably eager to unleash them on the civilian population in order to terrorize us into submission, the bloodshed would seem to be potentially limitless. The coming off-off year into the midterms are unquestionably our last hope to avoid that.
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Before we take up arms, I hope that we can try a general strike. I donāt know how that might work in a country so opposed to such things, but enough people not working and not buying would make something happen. At least, I hope it might.
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I literally said he could do a maximum of 20 years. But Iāll be shocked if itās anywhere close to that. I hope he does some time, but I wouldnāt be shocked if he was sentenced to the time heās already served.
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I missed a post somewhere, sorry.
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