I also disagree with your entire second paragraph. Something is clearly stopping him from bombing us right now, and you seem to be suggesting that it’s not the courts, it’s… his own goodwill? What?
You’re right, I got mixed up with this thread and another – this is about opening fire.
I also disagree with your entire second paragraph. Something is clearly stopping him from bombing us right now, and you seem to be suggesting that it’s not the courts, it’s… his own goodwill? What?
That’s a false premise. Just because he isn’t doing something doesn’t mean he’s prevented from doing it.
You could have said exactly the same thing about deploying the national guard to those states before he did it, and we can see that you would have been wrong.
Except, America has always fucked around with foreign leaders, so I wouldn’t have said that. We’ve done a number of coups without congressional approval in my lifetime, the only remarkable thing about Maduro is that we took him alive.
In the same lifetime, we have never deployed troops to local neighborhoods.
Edit: you ninja edited me.
I also wouldn’t have said the same thing about deploying national guard to those states, because that’s also happened multiple times before Trump.
I’ve been looking into organizations in my area, Rotary seems interesting – but I have this nagging suspicion someone is going to link me to why they’re actually problematic.
Rotary can be good, but they lean more progressive lib than left left. They do have a lot of helpful programs for the community though.
Honestly, grassroots groups are popping up all over the place, and you can’t even find them online yet. We didn’t even have a website before I volunteered space, and I only found them by going to protests and talking to people there. There’s one coming up at 2pm on Tuesday the 20th, so you’re gonna find the ones willing to leave work early at that one.
You assume I’m against open carry, for one.
I also disagree with your entire second paragraph. Something is clearly stopping him from bombing us right now, and you seem to be suggesting that it’s not the courts, it’s… his own goodwill? What?
You’re right, I got mixed up with this thread and another – this is about opening fire.
That’s a false premise. Just because he isn’t doing something doesn’t mean he’s prevented from doing it.
You could have said exactly the same thing about deploying the national guard to those states before he did it, and we can see that you would have been wrong.
Except, America has always fucked around with foreign leaders, so I wouldn’t have said that. We’ve done a number of coups without congressional approval in my lifetime, the only remarkable thing about Maduro is that we took him alive.
In the same lifetime, we have never deployed troops to local neighborhoods.
Edit: you ninja edited me.
I also wouldn’t have said the same thing about deploying national guard to those states, because that’s also happened multiple times before Trump.
I envy your comfort in the guardrails and ability to rationalize Trump as behaving more-or-less within the bounds of precedence.
Plan for the worst, hope for the best.
I’d love to see some of that planning actually happen.
Come to my community meetings and help us set up a mutual aid network.
I’ve been looking into organizations in my area, Rotary seems interesting – but I have this nagging suspicion someone is going to link me to why they’re actually problematic.
Rotary can be good, but they lean more progressive lib than left left. They do have a lot of helpful programs for the community though.
Honestly, grassroots groups are popping up all over the place, and you can’t even find them online yet. We didn’t even have a website before I volunteered space, and I only found them by going to protests and talking to people there. There’s one coming up at 2pm on Tuesday the 20th, so you’re gonna find the ones willing to leave work early at that one.
See my edit, I deliberately changed my example the moment I posted it because I knew you’d say that.
Edit war lol