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The civil rights movement succeeded because the authorities were made to realize that if they didn't play ball with MLK, folks like Malcolm X and Huey Newton were the alternative.

He’ll try to stop/derail it if he can’t claim ownership of the results.

Trump never gave a shit about peace to begin with; he just wanted to fellate Putin.

This implies that Javascript will get moving in the correct direction once it finishes installing dependencies, but it's just going to get fucked with incorrect behavior that doesn't even have the courtesy to throw an actual error.

Sorry, I just reread my comment and realized how arrogant and patronizing it is

I didn't read it that way, and frankly I agree with you about China's economic ascendance. That said, China is still a long way from being a "superpower" in the military sense and that's the kind of intervention that would be the parallel to nazi Germany.

China has three aircraft carriers, all diesel-fueled, the largest of which is similar in size to the ones the US was building in the '60s. In comparison, the US has 11 nuclear supercarriers with roughly double the aircraft capacity each, plus another 32 "amphibious warfare ships" that would be considered aircraft carriers in their own right if they were being operated by any other country.

Say what you will about carriers' vulnerability to hypersonic missiles and such, but China would be severely limited in its ability to project power against the US mainland due to its lack of them. The chance of China liberating the US from Trump's tyranny is absolutely 0%, and that's before even considering whether it would actually be "liberation" or not.

for no raisin

https://youtu.be/V3ZUhWuiQ20?t=22

(Sorry, I couldn't resist)

You mean "it's clear that he does not have the authority to order it." Anything short of that helps normalize Trump's fascist lawlessness.

He meant the Reichstag fire.

What I’m trying to say is: fight back while you still can! If this doesn’t happen soon and in an organized way, it will be too late and history will repeat itself.

Except it won't, because this time there's no external superpower to save us from ourselves.

Yeah, but neoliberals will never admit people don't like their economic policies when they can just scapegoat sexism and antisemitism (read: anti-genocide except as a bad thing somehow) instead.

Fascists revel in hypocrisy because it's another way of demonstrating their power over their enemies: "I don't have to be consistent and there's nothing you can do about it!"

"Hey ChatGPT, pretend to be an immigration attorney named Soo Park and answer these questions as if you're a criminal dipshit."

(arguably, with the caveat that they’re part of a militia, but that’s a whole other discussion).

Arguably, it's the same discussion. Theoretically, the National Guard is the [organized] militia, and the fact that it's fighting against the people instead of defending them just goes to show how perverted it's become from its original purpose.

By the way, I say "[organized]" because the "unorganized militia" is defined as:

all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States

(Yes, you read that right: even the 'dreamers' and asylum-seekers the thugs are trying to deport count as militia as long as they've declared that they want to become citizens. Also, yes, the definition is sexist and really ought to be updated to be gender-neutral.)

Also by the way, the National Guard/militia is supposed to be under the control of the state governor, not the President. So that's another way this is fucked up: I would argue that Trump is violating the 2nd Amendment, on to of everything else, by usurping the militia.

You could also fix the speakers on other pumps you use.

The auxiliary mute button is accessed by puncturing the speaker cone.

And that's why vandalism to destroy them is ethical.

What state is the payroll software company's HQ in and where are their servers?

Counterpoint: none of the beliefs you mentioned, from the Crusades to the Inquisition, were ever "legitimate." Evil is never legitimate, by definition.

I hate Illinois Nazis.

Well you see, the thing about conservatives is that they are fucking stupid self-serving liars.

FTFY

This bitch knows damn well America isn't a "Christian nation," but she'll shout it from the rooftops if she thinks she can get away with it in order to advance her hateful, bigoted agenda.

Do. Not. Give. Her. Any. Benefit. Of. The. Doubt.

No, that's now. Look at what happened yesterday in L.A., for instance.