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#DiaryOfRoundSparrow when I worked for a #TeamOwner of #NFL and #NBA and #Apps and #DreamWorks - I saw too much. Page 581 Finnegans Wake "saw too much". Took me a decade to come to terms with #pawns of fandoms.
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A quotation from Thomas Carlyle
Councillors of State sit plotting, and playing their high chess-game, whereof the pawns are Men.Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Sartor Resartus, Book 1, ch. 3 (1834)
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You elected a convicted liar, a convicted rapist, a racist, and thought it was funny.
Convicted of 'they started a charity to steal from.'
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Baby?
No, you are a pawn.
So, I wondered this a while back -- would #USTroops fight against #USCitizens? Or would they #Resist?
‘Political pawns’: #Morale among California #NationalGuard and #Marines deployed in LA is underwater, report claims
Josh Marcus
Thu, June 12, 2025
"The 4,000 California National Guard troops and 700 US Marines sent to Los Angeles in response to the ongoing anti-immigration raid #protests are reportedly suffering from low morale, according to members of the veterans community, amid allegations of a chaotic initial deployment and widespread concerns of the military being drafted into domestic law enforcement.
" 'Among all that I spoke with, the feeling was that the Marines are being used as political #pawns, and it strains the perception that Marines are apolitical,' Marine Corps veteran Janessa Goldbeck, who runs the Vet Voice Foundation, told The Guardian. 'Some were concerned that the Marines were being set up for failure. The overall perception was that the situation was nowhere at the level where Marines were necessary.'
" 'The sentiment across the board right now is that deploying military force against our own communities isn’t the kind of national security we signed up for,' added Sarah Streyder of the Secure Families Initiative in an interview with the outlet."
Read more:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/political-pawns-morale-among-california-211424418.html
#FallOfRome #RomanEmpire #NoKings #Resistance #USPol #Resist #ResistAuthoritarianism #ICEProtests
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