Angry Staff Officer

Afraid I couldn’t say. Could be any number of combinations

Since we can’t be the hegemon anymore, can we be the hedgehog?

Shout this from the fucking rooftops

The Insurrection Act doesn't mean Soldiers have carte blanche to round people up for mass executions, it means the military is being called in to enforce the *existing laws on the books*

Congrats, PFC Slapdick, you're a crossing guard now.

Also, if you were wondering why the season finale of Leverage:Redemption last year was a refutation of the Melian Dialogue, "the strong do what they will", condemned systemic cruelty and offered illegal resistance is legitimate, as opposed to a fun heist, it's because WE'D DONE THE FUCKING READING.

"Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial 'outside agitator' idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds."

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“Paid agitators” is a line that goes wayyyy back, to at least the 1930s if not before

Conservative papers stated that many of the Bonus Marchers of 1932 were paid to be fomenting unrest

The recycled bullshit is terribly translucent - save for those who choose to believe the nonsense

Ah, MLK Day, where Army public affairs officers search for equivocal Dr King quotes to post on the official pages to offer a pablum nod to the battle for civil rights and equality that got the namesake of today’s holiday murdered for it

Thank you for sharing that. Provides some needed hope and inspiration.

"An unjust law is a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obey but does not make binding on itself.” Letter from the Birmingham Jail

The struggle is real and it is large

Considering 70% of their armor was made from US steel, and without it the Red Army would merely have been a small speed bump…yes

walking into a blast of canister will tend to do that

Sadly, it’s not the crazy old coot in the corner. It’s the well meaning but brainwashed guy or gal at the VFW or retirement ceremony. Fox has done a real number on people

Thank you! Saved me the time

Anyone ever read “The Trumpeter of Krakow?” Great young adult book written in 1928. One plot point was the mythical Philosopher’s Stone - but instead of showing all knowledge, it just reflected the viewer’s desires back at them. this caused a dude to burn half of Krakow down.

That’s basically AI

Another reason to laugh bitterly anytime a dumbass retiree says “aren’t you glad this administration has strengthen national security”

For if, because of thy meat, thy brother be grieved, thou walkest not now according to charity. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died. Si enim propter cibum frater tuus constristatur, jam non secundum caritatem ambulas. Noli cibo tuo illum perdere, pro quo Christus mortuus est. [Romans 14:15]

Some Choices sure were Made in this translation of Paul's letter to the Romans.

Forget Netflix and chill

It’s PBS and pasta era

Honestly, find something to read that will make you happy, because we will need more bits of happiness in our lives

We’re off the map

Lotta these countries have security cooperation agreements with the US and are state partners with state NGs…getting real messy, real fast

You ain’t alone. The struggle is getting real

You and a whole lotta others

About once or twice an hour, yeah

“The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise - with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.”
- Abraham Lincoln, 1862

in the south to do so by other means. Clandestine resistance in the South soon transitioned to more visible but similarly minded attempts to retain the old social order. In the wake of Klan violence, white Southerners formed other illegal armed organizations and "rifle club" formations-in parallel with existing lawful militias in Southern states. Rifle clubs served as an armed, often uniformed, military apparatus composed of ex-Confederate soldiers backing conservative candidates in Southern political contests. By donning the moniker of a social club centered around marksmanship, these groups attempted to divert attention from their insurrectionary role against the legitimate state militia. In Charleston, the Carolina Rifle Club cited the fear of violence in the historic slave revolts in Santo Domingo and Hati and a need to serve as the "sole defense of the white population against... negro disturbances and aggres-sion."* Stealing arms from the state armory and regularly breaking up Afri- K.K WORST SLAV TIAN ERT. Figure 4.5. Thomas Nast sketch of "The Lost Cause Worse Than Slavery." Courtesy of the Library of Congress. 74

can American political rallies they deemed "riots," rifle clubs attempted to intimidate African Americans from exercising their Constitutional rights. Intimidation from rifle clubs became so rampant that Congress launched an investigation into their effect on the 1876 presidential election and documented the response from both White and Black Unionists regarding their conduct. Rifle clubs commonly committed murders, assassinations, and assaults on Republican meetings and rallies. One Edgefield, South Carolina, citizen wrote the attorney-general in Washington, DC, stating "the same old rebel spirit is in these men... nothing but the strong arm of your government will bring them to feel that they must obey the law." Rifle clubs served as a powerful counter-Reconstruction weapon. Rifle clubs and other armed illegal groups accompanied conservative politicians and voters to polls and rallies across the South in the early 1870s. In doing so, these groups intimidated White and Black Unionist voters from going to the polls. The intimidation slanted the outcome of elections, shifting the balance of power in Southern states to allow the return of many conservative white governments that did not truly represent most of the population. In many cases, contested elections and rival armed groups made it difficult for the federal government to identify the legitimate winner in local contests. In Louisiana, 1872 elections devolved into two armed camps demanding that the federal government recognize their respective legislatures and leaders. Brig. Gen. William Emory, Department of the Gulf commander, deployed his troops in a show of force but refused to side with or seat either of the rival groups. In one instance, a federally recognized state governor ordered the state militia disarmed when they refused to follow the orders of their newly appointed com-mander. State militia agreed only to surrender arms to an impartial federal garrison, not anyone from the governor's administration.…

These excerpts (from “Forging the Framework” via Army University Press) lay out the insidious nature of the “rifle clubs” which continued to exert power into 1876, when Congress again conducted hearings into their repressive activities to enforce white supremacy in the south

That testimony also revealed that alongside klan activity, ex-confederate units had reorganized, armed, and marched to polling places and political rallies to intimidate Black and White Republicans and moderates.

Formulaic but that’s all I really need at the moment

Whoa what

Same

Well, not the first, but like 6 random ones

After federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now.

Videos Show How ICE Vehicle Stops Can Escalate to Shootings A WSJ visual investigation found that the Minneapolis ICE killing is one of 13 incidents where federal immigration agents have used deadly force against civilians in vehicles since July.

WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to:

* 8 people shot
* 5 of which were U.S. citizens
* 2 died
* no victims drew a weapon

The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire

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