• rozodru@pie.andmc.ca
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    23 hours ago

    soooooo is this the US version of a Russian window? They all piss off Trump?

    IF I were someone in that position the LAST place I’d want to be is on a military base full of government employees whose families are hungry.

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      I’m guessing it’s to isolate them from the civilian population. Miller’ “never back down”-ed from some peaceful protestors that were using chalk on the sidewalk in front of his home by…selling it, to apparently move to the safety of a protected military community.

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    Honestly, what are the odds there isn’t a sinister motive behind them all getting the idea to move on to a fucking military base. Especially with the bullshit excuse that it’s because their safety is being threatened.

    I keep thinking about how other dictators handle dissent when they start to worry about maintaining their hold on power, and I keep thinking about how I know there should be no expectation of Trump not stooping to a similar level of evil.

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      Yes, this is a preparation for what they’re planning to do when they launch the full military onto blue cities that are starving.

      False flag imminent, I’d say within the next 45 days. It’ll take a few weeks to let the unrest really build, and they need to give their propaganda outlets (Fox, Newsmax, OAN) time to rile up their base that “terrorists” are coming.

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        I have this sinking feeling November 17 is significant.

        I don’t know if it’s because an update to the insanely invasive PeePal account privacy policy that I actually read goes into effect that day, or because it’s just shy of two weeks after election day, a day by which most states have (or should have) certified their results, or what.

        Maybe it’s because it’ll have been just enough time since things “snapped” for those who can’t take the exhaustion and emptiness another week, the ones who know they can no longer absorb their child’s hunger, to realize they are being forced to make heretofore unfathomable decisions to function, let alone remain alive, mere days before they see and hear and maybe even smell their feckless neighbors gorging themselves in malicious ignorance, and jesus christ my-god-where-are-you they want us to be thankful for this shit???

        But there they’d have em, their scapegoats for yet another heavily manufactured Penultimate Crisis.


        I’m high and I hate everything.

        Okay I love some things but I hate everything about this.

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    Stephen Miller’s time is limited, and he knows it. His paranoia is very much justified. His neighbors in Arlington, VA have bullied him into moving away which is great, but this is also a first step so they can be safe when they launch open war on the protestors and start killing Democrats.

    Let’s hope there are some military members that feel similarly and can take their oath to the Constitution seriously (foreign and domestic).

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      During fascist takeovers the military never sides with the people. They will follow orders. Especially after Trump ousted all those generals.

      Sound familiar?

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        Yeah that was most of it, but there were also lots of small protests outside of his house, comments at them, and in rare cases people went to the door and made “threats” (what they call it because they’re pussies)

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      While it’s a nice to stay hopeful, you know in those circumstances they do extensive background checks for anyone who could be in that kind of position and then those folks who are selected are also made to understand that their families are tied to the deal.

      The rest of the military bases have pretty tight controls on arms, because unlike civilian America, the military understands that having guns around all the time leads to bad things.

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    Yes move on to the base, full of people you’re not paying right now and whose families are about to start going hungry. Great idea.

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    The reason for this is because Trump is about to declare martial law, and everyone needs to be in place.

    How are people—including a lot of you all—so blind to this? Tiananmen Square is going to look like the Macy’s Day parade compared to what the Republicans intend to do to the United States. And anyone driving these tanks would love to roll over some “libtard” flesh.

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      I can’t see anyone in military service justifying driving a tank while their families go hungry.

      I don’t think this is a “keep these people safe” action, I think this is a “here are you scapegoats” action. This is solidifying power. I feel like SOMEONE wants these people out of the picture.

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    Living amongst the people you’re partially paying with donated funds because you weren’t willing to give Americans a break on their health care costs? Ballsy.

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    I would not oppose a targeted nuke from north Korea, or whomever, in the general vicinity.

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      People keep talking about Trump threatening to use nukes, but I kinda suspect we should be more immediately worried about something like a bioweapon and a fully privatized vaccine that will be given to military first, and then sold for the highest bid to the public.

      Wild guess who profits the most and also gets first dibs on the vaccine/first dibs on receiving a “nonvaccine preventative” since vaccine is a dirty word to the people who profit from this shit.

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          Tomahawk missiles are Russia’s latest red line. Will Trump call Putin’s bluff?

          Russia’s attempts to impose red lines on Ukraine’s Western allies are a key part of the intimidation tactics employed by Putin since the start of the war. During his address announcing the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Putin threatened the West with “such consequences that you have never faced in your history” if they dared to intervene. This rather obvious reference to nuclear war set the tone for the relentless nuclear blackmail that has followed. When it became apparent last year that Putin’s nuclear bluster was losing its potency, he ostentatiously revised Russia’s nuclear doctrine to lower the threshold for nuclear strikes and heighten the fear factor throughout the democratic world.

          Russia’s nuclear threats have certainly not been subtle, but they have proved surprisingly effective against risk-averse Western leaders. From the eve of the invasion onward, every single debate over the delivery of new weapons to Ukraine has been dragged out and delayed by overblown fears of possible escalation and craven talk of the need to avoid provoking Putin.

          The timidity of the West has only served to embolden the Kremlin dictator and prolong the war, enabling Russia to punch well above its geopolitical weight against far wealthier and better armed opponents. Indeed, while his armies have struggled to advance on the battlefields of Ukraine, Putin’s ability to intimidate the West has been arguably his single biggest success of the entire invasion.

          This success is all the more remarkable given how many times Putin’s threats have been exposed as empty. Russia’s unilaterally declared red lines over the supply of everything from Javelin anti-tank weapons and Patriot air defense systems to F-16 fighter jets and Leopard tanks have all eventually been violated without consequence. Likewise, the Ukrainian army has repeatedly demonstrated its complete disregard for Putin’s red lines by liberating large swathes of the country from Russian occupation, chasing the Russian Black Sea Fleet out of Crimea, and invading Russia itself.

          None of this has sparked World War III. On the contrary, Putin has responded to each fresh military setback by attempting to downplay the significance of his latest humiliation. Russian retreats have been rebranded in Orwellian fashion as “goodwill gestures,” while earlier protests over the planned delivery of new weapons systems have been replaced by expressions of defiant indifference.

          I think if nukes are going to be the thing to take us out in the near future it will be due to these idiots testing nuclear weapons as part of the long tradition of dick measuring.

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        I thought China or Russia would do it but doesn’t seem they think that would work long term. If the US did as a false flag it would be dangerously close to plagiarizing V for Vendetta.