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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 hours ago

The head of the security service isn't just a meathead bit of heavy muscle there to jump in front of a bullet.

Martial law also isn't some obscure policy, it's an internationally understood term that replaces the democratic civilian parliament with military rule.

This is definitely something someone in his position should be very aware of and should be willing to do something about.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_law

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

It's only crazy effective if it's not expected. If it becomes the norm then everyone just starts wearing foam ear plugs, maybe ear defenders if they're fancy.

It's easily defeated and incites the wrath of the populace. It's dumb to use, especially during a moment of silence for the dead.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

To those downvoting blakenong, have a read of this.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_February_2003_anti-war_protests

The day was described by social movement researchers as "the largest protest event in human history".[1]

I don't want to burst the feeling of optimism, but unless there's consequences, a general strike, riots, whatever, I don't know, something, nothing will happen.

If everyone goes back to their day job after standing out in the cold for a day or two and then pats themselves on the back saying "yeah, we showed them", then nothing changes.

Protest is dead. The powers that be don't care if there's a million people shouting and screaming. Unless they suffer consequences, nothing will change.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A giant death ray? A military application?

https://youtu.be/8HgejSCHRi8

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

If you want an understanding of the cuckoo clock and how it came to be, I highly recommend you watch the BBC documentary HyperNormalisation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation

It argues that following the global economic crises of the 1970s, governments, financiers and technological utopians gave up on trying to shape the complex "real world" and instead established a simpler "fake world" for the benefit of multi-national corporations that is kept stable by neoliberal governments.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

https://youtu.be/-1uSSRcn7UE

The lyrics for this song, particularly the finale quote, are pretty apt to your point. NSFW if your boss doesn't like the word fuck.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 days ago (1 children)

America is racist.

Not every American, obviously.

But as a nation, institutionally, America is racist.

Some times it's more so than others, but it always is, to varying degrees throughout its history.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Until you've been doing it for a few years, and it's winter, and you only have 6 hours of daylight per day, and you see 0 of them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I won't. You can't kill rock and roll!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

As Tywin Lannister said "Any man who must say, "I am the King", is no true king."

Any man who goes around telling everyone they're brave, probably isn't brave. In fact it's incredibly cringe.

A cringe country full of cringe people who say one thing but do another. Claim to stand for freedom, democracy, and liberty whilst oppressing all of those things both at home and abroad.

Land of the cowards.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think it's moved on to "Fuck the U.S.A." by The Exploited by now.

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