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Probably Not A Crow, Unfortunately @mefcorv.bsky.social · 2h

This is exactly the kind of thing the Republicans used to tell me only happened under communism.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 3h

NEW: Pentagon officials are forcing staff to watch Pete Hegseth's "Warrior" speech he forced generals to listen to.

Officials are even "testing" staff to see if they watched — and are threatening consequences if they lie about watching it or if they mock it, sources tell @swin24.bsky.social and I.

The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else

Defense Department sources tell Zeteo that staff have been warned that if they don’t watch or read the speech, or if they speak negatively of it, they could face severe consequences.

zeteo.com

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Probably Not A Crow, Unfortunately @mefcorv.bsky.social · 3h

My partner, dryly:

“Gee, I remember when they jumped me into antifa.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

HANNITY: Antifa is working against the American people. What would that be called?

BONDI: It would be called organized crime. And that's what they're doing ... they are no different than MS-13

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Probably Not A Crow, Unfortunately @mefcorv.bsky.social · 3h

I want to say I feel like I’ve seen some ICE using either current uniforms, or uniforms that read to me as current, which probably means one uniform change behind, and which I would still be forbidden from wearing, say, to a protest.

I’ll have to keep my nitpick eye out.

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 2d

Reporting to you live from War Ravaged Portland

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Probably Not A Crow, Unfortunately @mefcorv.bsky.social · 3h

And so in this case: if military veterans or members are losing discounts/bennies because people in uniform beating people is losing the goodwill of the populace, could those individuals have standing?

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Probably Not A Crow, Unfortunately @mefcorv.bsky.social · 3h

Well, here’s where I wonder - would the individuals who are harmed from that branding damage have standing to sue?

So like: if someone wears knockoff Yankees uniforms and starts beating people, and Yankees players lose sponsorships, does the owner have to sue, or could Yankees players?

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Probably Not A Crow, Unfortunately @mefcorv.bsky.social · 3h

I guarantee those soldiers have stolen more than 2$ worth of government food.

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Probably Not A Crow, Unfortunately @mefcorv.bsky.social · 3h

Alternately, are there any retirees in there, who are forbidden to wear the uniform improperly?

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Probably Not A Crow, Unfortunately @mefcorv.bsky.social · 3h

I actually wonder…I haven’t done the research on this, and I’m not an IP lawyer, but I wonder if there is a valid trademark infringement case on police use of military uniforms, due to causing brand confusion, which harms military members through diminishing the value of the brand.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 4h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Probably Not A Crow, Unfortunately @mefcorv.bsky.social · 4h

It’s really “everybody who wants to keep their bar card vs everybody that doesn’t understand that the bar is going to strip those bar cards so fucking fast when this is over”

Probably Not A Crow, Unfortunately @mefcorv.bsky.social · 4h

*stares in Iraq veteran*

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 5h

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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Probably Not A Crow, Unfortunately @mefcorv.bsky.social · 10h

And Jesus, it just got worse. “if our guy loses, we won’t be generous with Argentina.”

Probably Not A Crow, Unfortunately @mefcorv.bsky.social · 10h

Listening to this entire press conference, it becomes clear that now that Trump has realized he isn’t getting the Nobel prize, he doesn’t give a fuck about literally anything, from Israel/Gaza peace to the Constitution.

“All the money comes through the White House.”

“We will disarm them by force”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Trump says he's being called "the greatest president of them all. Does that include Washington and Lincoln? Yes it does."

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Probably Not A Crow, Unfortunately @mefcorv.bsky.social · 12h

I suspect part of the issue is that USAA also covers veterans and veterans dependents and former dependents, and they can’t have a program that’s just for active duty.

Probably Not A Crow, Unfortunately @mefcorv.bsky.social · 12h

I disagree, but also think that the extent to which the U.S. military pushed it as a soft landing for veterans made it less of a moral choice and more of a transition.

While I personally did not, I think you’d be surprised how many hard leftists once worked for Blackwater.

Probably Not A Crow, Unfortunately @mefcorv.bsky.social · 13h

A right winger who had done Blackwater in 2018? Yes, similarly grey morality; I would be judging him on what he was doing now, under fascism, rather than on what he did in 2018.

Probably Not A Crow, Unfortunately @mefcorv.bsky.social · 13h

ICE, at this time and place, is unquestionably bad morality. You can’t work as an ICE agent right now and not see you are doing evil.

But I think the National Guardsmen right now are grey morality. They’re doing wrong, but they personally aren’t directly doing wrong.

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Probably Not A Crow, Unfortunately @mefcorv.bsky.social · 13h

For me, I draw the line between questionable - what I call “grey” morality - and unquestionably bad morality.

Blackwater, for an infantryman, is grey morality. It’s doing legal work he’s already done, that you know is problematic, but most of America isn’t calling out, so “maybe you’re wrong”.

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Probably Not A Crow, Unfortunately @mefcorv.bsky.social · 13h

Other working class people who have literally watched their children go hungry rather than take such a shitty job have the moral high ground to criticize the former; no one else does. I literally work in a field where I voluntarily seek at *least* a 50% pay cut to do right and I still don’t.

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Probably Not A Crow, Unfortunately @mefcorv.bsky.social · 13h

No shade on this person, who’s asking a fair question, but I want to draw an important line here between:

1. Working class people who took shitty jobs of questionable morality to feed their family

2. Rich people who created shitty jobs of questionable morality to buy a second yacht

Daemon Primarch MetaBlueSky ♨️ @metabluesky.bsky.social · 13h

I’m puzzled, though, that after Fetterman few people raise an eyebrow at a man who worked for Blackwater in 2018. That’s a Godzilla sized red flag.

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Probably Not A Crow, Unfortunately @mefcorv.bsky.social · 15h

Children would fucking never.

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Probably Not A Crow, Unfortunately @mefcorv.bsky.social · 15h

I love that you are getting to introduce this to people that are only familiar with the most normal parts of the Odyssey.

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Probably Not A Crow, Unfortunately @mefcorv.bsky.social · 15h

If somebody compared the amount of words I have written in actual briefs versus words I have spent explaining literary motifs on literature over 100 years old I do not think they would accurately guess my profession.

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Probably Not A Crow, Unfortunately @mefcorv.bsky.social · 15h

HOWEVER there are THEORIES in classics that the last book is in fact ALTERED by 6th century Athens (given the trouble of the killings of the Cylonian conspirators and followup issues); I am personally persuaded by the theory that the original had Apollo purifying Odysseus and re-exile.

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Probably Not A Crow, Unfortunately @mefcorv.bsky.social · 16h

The lack of closure on the oar anecdote is intentional; it’s the sword of Damocles that hangs over even his happy reunion with Penelope. He will never be able to be at peace; there will never be a land that does not know an oar, just as a warrior will never truly be at peace after the war.

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