GOPniks walking free from consequences, no matter the criminal plot and cost to society, for 60(+) years has led us to this. Basically every sitting (R) rep acts against American interests and cheered for the Jan 6th insurrection: They all need to go to prison theintercept.com/2017/12/20/r...
Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.
It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.
I think at the start of this year the place made itself private, unable to view/read outside of the (increasingly small-ish) membership circle and membership requiring approval... I wish all the well-read, intelligent people that still remained the best of luck, because they'd need it. 😐
I only got warnings/bans from pointing this out: "What do you mean they're an authoritarian propaganda tool? You can't say that, just because they repeat every CCP/Kremlin talking point in the book! They're 1 of us, they say all the right words about populr revolution aganst THE MAN and capitalism!"
It also unfortunately showed me how seemingly helpless left wing online spaces currently are against this 'maskirovka' practice and disingenuous/dishonest demoralization spam. This is from ~a year ago: Run that marked "agree" username through Google Translate...
Tell me about it: A couple of years ago I had to leave an international, very left-wing, video game discussion forum that had been 50%+ of my internet usage since 2001, because the place had become utterly overrun by vatnik sock puppet accounts (some created/joining 2010-2012).
"The Trump administration’s war on cities just entered a new, more terrifying phase. What stage of fascism is it when the president defies a court order and sends troops into a city anyway? Because as of Sunday, that’s where we’re at."
On Mar 21, 1933, Hitler issued an Amnesty (Straffreiheit) to all his followers who had previously been arrested and punished for their involvement in street fights—in order to secure their involvement in a new series of confrontations the NSDAP was organizing in opposition-loyal parts of the country
