- Involuntary or coercive medical or psychological practices.
- Arbitrary or unlawful interference with privacy.
- Serious restrictions to internet freedom.
- Extensive gender-based violence.
- Violence or threats of violence targeting people with disabilities.
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The rise in domestic chip orders is a direct result of former President Donald Trump’s ...
If only.
tough export tariffs
I think they mean import tariffs. The tariffs that domestic buyers pay when importing goods from overseas.
“I’ve always just felt that as a Christian, my only job is to love on others,” Desi said. “God gave us free will, and God gave us the ability to choose, and my belief system doesn’t get to take away that choice of someone else.”
That doesn't sound very Christian to me.
The statement attributed to Jesus "I come not to bring peace, but to bring a sword" has been interpreted by some as a call to arms for Christians. Mark Juergensmeyer argues that "despite its central tenets of love and peace, Christianity—like most traditions—has always had a violent side. The bloody history of the tradition has provided disturbing images and violent conflict is vividly portrayed in the Bible. This history and these biblical images have provided the raw material for theologically justifying the violence of contemporary Christian groups. For example, attacks on abortion clinics have been viewed not only as assaults on a practice that Christians regard as immoral, but also as skirmishes in a grand confrontation between forces of evil and good that has social and political implications", sometimes referred to as spiritual warfare. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_and_violence
anyone who voted for the orange cancer is complicit.
As is anyone who failed to vote against him. I'm not talking about stay-at-home Democrats either. I know Ayn Rand-ish "libertarian" old-time Republicans who always toed the old-school Republican lines on healthcare, social spending, global warming, taxes, offense spending &etc, who KNEW that Trump was a fraud and a nascent dictator, and who refused to vote against him because "my vote doesn't matter, the Whole System is a charade, there are People in power who control everything including elections and who just pretend to give us the illusion of choice every few years at the polls". Basically a stupid excuse to avoid admitting that they've spent a lifetime wallowing in the deep end of the conservative bullshit pool only to have it end in a dystopia that will drown them too. Anything is better than admitting to having been wrong with their whole ideology for their whole lives. Wrong = weak, and I suspect too that they're thinking "anyway, I donated $100 to a Trump election PAC, surely I'll be OK, they won't be coming for me."
The Democratic Party controls both the New Mexico state government and the city of Albuquerque. The deployment of troops by a Democratic governor is another part of the alignment of the national Democratic party with Trump since his election, and makes clear that the Democrats will not conduct a fight against Trump and his plans for dictatorship.
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
You can just do a web search on the title. Example result: https://www.yahoo.com/news/outrage-builds-video-shows-idaho-185811760.html
And here I am directly under the final approach path to our airport. It sounds like "blue ice" is soon to be the least of my air industry worries.
I recently re-read vol 1. of the Gulag Archipelago and it's striking how similar MAGA-ism and Stalinism is. I've known a fair number of Republicunt and MAGA types who cheer on all the tough-guy orange stuff being applied to other people. They don't read books and certainly not history books, and don't understand that Stalin didn't just terrorize the Other, he intentionally wrought terror on the entire society, from top to bottom. Nobody was safe. The Terror might have started with the peasantry (not sure) but it certainly didn't end there. The "intelligentsia" was one target, but so was the military (which Stalin purged) and veterans and scientists and engineers and religious bodies. If you looked like you had the slightest bit of potential power or potential influence in society (or were just too damn educated), and if you seemed to be even slightly uncommitted to the Great Leader, then he or his lackeys would see to it that your door was kicked down in the middle of the night and you dragged off for torture until you "confessed". Then a "tribunal" (not judges) would sentence you and it was off to the gulag and to a life of slavery in the Arctic cold, for decades or until you died. Or just a bullet to the head.
Separately, there was the mass-starvation (for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor) inflicted on certain Soviets - a byproduct of Stalin's ideologically-driven re-engineering of the economy. I've read some opinions that starvation was the intent - a genocide against a potentially non-loyal segment of the citizenry.
This is where we're heading.
I haven't bought from or through Amazon in at least a decade, and that's mainly because of their sweatshops and overall anti-union orientation. If I can't find something locally at a thrift shop or at some locally-owned not-quite-big-box shop, then I've bought via eBay. Am I still a Collaborator ... does eBay deserve a boycott too, and if so why [based on corporate shittiness, not product shittiness]?
I haven't given a cent to Target in at least 5 years since they F-d me over on a return - a return that was 100% due to a mistake on their part, but that's a personal grudge. Still nice to see the boycott as Target shareholders and management deserve it.
And then he woke up, having slept in his Kia in the city park, thankful that he wasn't beaten up by cops again last night. An auspicious start to another day in Amerika.
Medium sized city in a very red part of a blue state: turnout was estimated to be 5000+ and huge amounts of support from honking drivers in the busy, adjacent multilane street, for 2 hours straight. Great energy/vibe, lots of outrage and creativity, and a very multi-generational turnout that shows that not just one age group hates MAGA, they ALL do.
Counter-demonstrators were next to none and getting shouted down. One Christofascist was dressed up like the Christ he's seen in picturebooks and was dragging around a replica of a full-sized cross and getting laughs and sneers for his efforts.
We're driving the Trump citizen-fascists underground, lets keep it up.