Resistance doesn’t have to include escalation. Leave that to them…they are going to escalate anyway. If the protesters are the ones doing it, then they just handed Trump exactly what he wants…a legal justification for his actions.

This is like saying, “If you’re going to be wrongly accused of a crime, you may as well commit it”…just to prove them right?

Not sure how this advice does anything other than give Trump exactly what he wants.

But, when you say, “they”…you are painting the entire protest as violent, unless you make the distinction that it isn’t. And the vast majority of protestors are simply exercising their 1st amendment rights, in a perfectly legal manner.

The people setting those fires should absolutely be charged for their actions. But their actions don’t negate the Constitutional rights of everyone else who is protesting. And calling in the National guard before the local authorities have declared the situation to be out of their control, is a direct violation of Constitutional law.

And THIS is what the 2nd amendment is actually for. California needs its own state-run militia to defend its territory from Federal overreach.

It was never about individual civilians owning weapons. All that would do, is give Trump a justification to invoke the Insurrection Act. But if the State of California itself is armed against tyranny, then the people’s rights are being defended.

Way to show the world your spine, Sweden. Too bad you’re standing up to the wrong people.

Escalation to violence is exactly what they want. It gives them all the justification they need to invoke the Insurrection Act, declare martial law and suspend your Constitutional rights. And not just in California.

There have been several reports making similar claims regarding the statistically anomalous results, but this is the first time they’re naming an actual group having this level of access. Investigations take time.

This is what the internet is for.

Russia has no one to blame but Putin, for NATO getting so close to their borders.

“But you have a governor who let the city burn down, didn’t want water to be sent down to him,” Trump complained about Newsom and January’s wildfires. “I mean, I sent billions of gallons of water. I wanted to do it in the first term. He wouldn’t do it over. I don’t know, they have environmental reasons, but there were no environmental reasons. It’s, I think it’s just a political philosophy. But it’s lucky for the people in Los Angeles and in California that we did what we did.”

They dumped an entire reservoir full of water designed for agriculture purposes, into the fucking ocean! That reservoir didn’t even connect to LA’s supply.

Did Trump declare martial law while I was asleep? Because last time I checked, he can’t deploy the military on US soil unless the country is in a state of emergency. And peaceful protests don’t count.

AI consumes more resources than Bitcoin, at this point. We are accelerating our own demise, all for the spectacle of watching a computer hallucinate on command. There is nothing more decadently bourgeoisie than that.

I can’t even imagine the mental gymnastics required to be both “pro-labor” and “pro-AI”. I mean, yeah I’m all about workers rights…but imagine how much money my boss could make if he just replaced us all with robots?

…but, did it work?

For all the alarmists acting like this is going to pass…it won’t. This is part of the normal process that all new legislation goes through. Politicians propse a bill, which contains everything they can think to include…throwing it all at the wall, just to see what will stick. Then it gets torn to shreds during the debate session, by legal advocacy groups and human rights organizations, who know exactly what kinds of legal challenges they can see coming a mile away. Anything that’s garaunteed to get tossed out in court is discarded from the legislation.

Why? Because there’s no point in passing legislation that can’t actually be legally enforced. Law enforcement has been trying to get these kinds of “tools” implemented for decades. And the courts have all said, all the way along…no. You need a warrant for that kind of intrusion. They need probable cause to look at these things. They need a reasonable justification beyond, “I want to look, just in case”. None of the shit in this bill is going to pass the legal smell test. Period.

Cheese.

“Any rebuttal is shut down by these drones.” Proceeds to complain that their whataboutism isn’t respected as a valid “rebuttal”.

I was referring more to the fact that Elon Musk has already been allegedly funneling DOGE data directly to the Russian government…but yeah, all the rest of that is pretty bad too. Lol!

…and it’s all going to “accidentally” find its way onto Russian servers.