He needs a t-shirt that says "If you see me running, try to keep up!"
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An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody.
Like when safety at work asks what steps to take when you see an electrical fire.
“Fucking big ones” apparently isn’t a good response
I work with big tanks of a pressurized gas that occasionally releases pressure for a few seconds, very loudly. Civilians are often startled, and ask if its going to blow up, and I always say:
"Do you see me running?"
"No."
"Then don't worry about it. But if you see me running, then you should definitely run, too."
Damn that is a good one
This is going to keep happening. The brain drain is real.
There are two sides to the brain drain. First are the researchers into things the government doesn't like, who will leave if they have the means to.
But the second is that with all of our hostility to foreign nationals right now, even the ones who come from countries the government likes will think twice about applying for positions here.
The net result is that the brightest minds will go elsewhere.
It's like a federal version of the same thing red states were doing. I left a rust belt state over a decade ago because it was clear the state was going down the tubes.
They're making America Mississippi again (MAMA).
And thats exactly the plan. An idiocracy thats easy to control and exploit.
Which is fine with them, they know that smart people will call them out on their bullshit. That's why one of the first thing an authoriatarian government does is go after the intellectuals. That's why they're disappearing avtivist college students.
The good news for our side is that they are giving their opposition the gift of competence. The most experienced, competent leaders are being replaced with stupid, ignorant, totally inexperienced loyalists. Left behind are millions of angry Federal employees, who hate what MAGA is doing to all their years of hard work, and who despise their new bosses. They are ripe for recruiting as moles, leakers, saboteurs, assassins, etc. And those experienced leaders will be the ones to lead us through the inevitable revolt, and form the basis of the new Democractic government.
Ultimately, MAGA will be brought down by their own virtuosic incompetence.
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You can almost feel the average IQ of the nation drop every time one of these people leave
I wonder if he has seen through history what what the future can become with the direction of the current political administration
It could become dangerous for having a voice
As a history graduate myself, I can tell you that he has absolutely looked forward, and extrapolated where this timeline is likely to go, based not only on past historical examples, but also considering the models that the contemporary players are using, which is clearly a combination of the Nazi playbook, extreme Libertarian fantasy, Russian ambition, and oligarchic greed .
Way back in the late 80s, I started listening to Rush Limbaugh, whose radical propaganda I was able to resist because I had a good grounding in Critical Thinking. But as I heard his listeners fawn over him, and saw the conservative talk radio trend quickly spread across America following the end of the Fairness Doctine in 1987, I realized that if this level of conservative rhetoric and propaganda continued for long enough, it could literally destroy America, and then the world.
Then I watched in horror as it caught fire in the 90s with Newt Gingrich fanning the flames, then the stolen election of 2000, with the Dems just saying "Oh, well," in response, then the rise and election of HitlerPig.
EVERY single prediction I made in my most extreme imagination in 1987 has come true so far, and if we dont do something to stop it, we will come to resemble Nazi Germany, with death camps and everything. Except this time, nobody will come to the rescue, and the entire planet will turn into an authoriarian kleptocracy, operated by Sociopathic Oligarchs.
My next prediction: MAGA can't lose the slim majorities in both Houses, or control of investigatory committees will fall into the hands of Democrats, as well as legislative control. Protests will continue to grow around the nation, driven by citizen anger over multiple issues. By next summer the protests will be huge, and HitlerPig will encourage his RedHats to instigate violence. They heeded his call before, and he pardoned them, and made them political martyrs within their cause. They will respond again.
Now he can call the protests violent, and send in the authorities to quell the violence with more extreme violence. That will allow him to declare Martial Law and suspend the upcoming elections until peace is restored, and since he controls the peace, that will never happen. Any further demonstrations will be met with deadly violence, and any organizers will be disappeared to the 30,000 person facility currently being built in Guantanamo, outside of the view of the media or the toothless courts.
Kapo Stephen "PeeWee Himmler" Miller has said that he wants America reduced from the current 335 million people, to 100 million. Using your best historical speculation, how do you think he proposes to reach that goal?
Stanley recently wrote for the Guardian about a new Department of Education directive that said teaching about systemic racism and other topics could be grounds for a civil rights violation, according to the Trump administration’s legal interpretations. Stanley said this order sets the country “on a path to educational authoritarianism”.
The fascists are still robbing their opponents of the language of dissent by turning its meaning on its head. It is now a "civil rights violation" to claim that there is racism, homophobia, transphobia or sexism in the USA. Civil rights now means protecting the supremacy of straight white men.
"WAR IS PEACE / FREEDOM IS SLAVERY / IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH."
It's uncanny how relevant this is
I can understand wanting to study fascism from a distance.
distance? He's right in it
fleeing US to work in Canada
I can read, and I do mean in Canada
He'll soon be controlled by America anyway, eh?
They will get along fine, just a different flavor of fascism.
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You can’t post or say anything without fear of being targeted by the Trump administration. The legal student protester got abducted, and Trump stops funding universities because of protesting students. The cabinet is full of dishonorable fascists.
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Man I knew this election was going to turn into Americans coming to Canada en mass and us having to deal with more fucking Americans.
Yeah, the people coming to Canada aren't the ones you have to worry about.
Nah, I don’t want any of them here honestly. The democrats have done some heinous shit too and seeing how hard a lot of the supposed “good” Americans defend them makes me not want any of them here. Not to mention we already have a housing crisis without that bullshit.
I can understand the tensions from the housing crisis, and I can also sympathise with not having a lot of personal sympathy for the Americans moving right now, who most likely won't be refugees as such, but just people with the financial privilege and ability to choose where to emigrate.
But long-term, depending on how shitty the shit-show will get, there might be tent cities for persecuted Americans in the future, both for you and for us here in the EU (and, ironically, in Mexico, of course). You can say that you don't like it, and you have every right to - but at least in my eyes, it's an international duty to human rights when that point comes, and I, personally, won't give a shit what people feel, then. The international community will have to take them in unless we want to follow the international trend of fascism and say "empathy is the problem" like Elon. (Even though I actually don't think this would be about empathy, it'd be about upholding what remains of international standards, duties, laws and human rights, eventually with force if necessary)
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I’m an American who fucking loathes the democrats and hates the nazis here. I just want to move there to be there to be with my fiancée
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us having to deal with more fucking Americans
So... you view Americans like how the conservatives in the US view Mexicans?
🤔
Might wanna check your xenophobia
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Build a wall...
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A wise decision
we should be forming a human shield around these people
I am reintroducing the phrase "better dead than red" under a new context
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There's enough material for him to study there, past and present
Welcome, friend ❤️🇨🇦
Thank you.
This sounds like the debt we owe the countries that hid jews during the holocaust.
Your acts will be remembered long after the Trump name has been abandoned to the dust heap of infamy.
His name will be rembered for a long time, but it will be in the same context as people like Caligula, Nero, Bendict Arnold, Hitler, etc.
Over the next century, historians will write more books and graduate level theses about the HitlerPig phenomenon than any other modern historical figure.
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Why flee when you can study it live.
Exactly, Jane Goodall didn't run from the apes, she joined their ranks to study them.
This guy should be closer.
/s if it wasn't clear
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Trying to remove the observer effect, totally understandable! Best wishes in your studies! Say, before you go, which alcohol makes for the best Molotov?
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