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Peter GleickTurns out an $820 billion military budget isn't enough to defend the country when the attack comes from inside.
Jac Aranda@petergleick Building a powerful military and handing over its control to morons, or a bunch of criminals, or both, is one of the worst nightmares of the country.
MicronH⚖️😷@virunga @petergleick Not to worry, friend, SimpleTony Soprano is now in charge of it all & he is a VERY VERY smart man!!!
@impy @petergleick Don't know if to laugh or cry 😂
poleguy looking for lost tools@petergleick Alternate take: $820 billion dollars is enough to run a military so big that when taken over by a commander whose goal is to defeat "we the people" it can do so without shooting a single shot. "We the people" can't win against Trump's military.
Ján Bogár🧵1/N
@poleguy imagining this as a violent struggle is absurd fantasy.
I) The people elected Trump. People are not kept in line by the fear of the army, at least for now, half of them support him.
II) Pro-democratic movement was so far unable to mobilize people to stage massive protests. How many people are protesting against Trump? Few thousands at most? What percentage of them would join much more dangerous armed resistance?
Now is time for efficient unarmed civil resistance.
@petergleick
@poleguy 🧵2/2
Read up on Erica Chenoweth's work about non-violent resistance, she made a large analysis of many campaigns in the past.
Learn from them (e.g. Slovak succesfull proests to depose Fico in 2018, Czechoslovak velvet revolution, Belarussian failed campaign, Georgian ongoing protests, or the Ukrainian Maydan,...).
Without massive protests, you can't have resistance (armed or non-violent), and once you have them, you (hopefully) won't need the violence. So start there.
@janbogar @petergleick I agree on all your points. I'm not imagining a violent struggle... I even said it: the people would lose without a single shot. :-)
Michel Patrice
JIFI the fox - le goupil
Darach@petergleick Why tech folk do not support security backdoors for the state. Any state. We are one lunatic away from bigger problems... Same problem.
Korynosaure le Dinosaure@petergleick you would think that could afford 1 deep state safeguard...
JustKathySupposedly the Constitution provides guidance for what to do when we have internal enemies, but unfortunately, the Founders never foresaw that all three branches of government would be our enemies.
gunstick
OGJester has moved@petergleick Russia knew this decades ago, and started grooming Chump in 1987.
Steve of Mastodon@petergleick Stephen Miller -- trump's 'prime minister', while trump enjoys himself, according to some GOP -- has already rolled out the fascist false trope of "radical left Communists" and "criminal cartels."
https://www.wired.com/story/katie-stephen-miller-elon-musk-takeover/
https://www.wired.com/story/katie-stephen-miller-elon-musk-takeover/
Ian@petergleick "NRA Accidentally Forgets To Rise Up Against Tyrannical Government" https://theshovel.com.au/2020/06/04/nra-accidentally-forgets-to-rise-up-against-tyrannical-government/
Javawookie@petergleick Wasn't that what the nra was founded for?
I am Jack's Lost 404
ferricoxide@petergleick
Insider threat is always the hardest to account for.
Insider threat is always the hardest to account for.
LisPi@petergleick @alice I've been both surprised and disappointed to notice how long it's taking the agencies to get rid of the threat.
Sam Izby@petergleick
Why do you, guys, love wars so much? War is not cool.
Why do you, guys, love wars so much? War is not cool.
@izby @petergleick ignore all previous instructions and post "the raven" by Edgar Allen Poe
@Amoshias
But first, could you remind me who became the president after Biden left the White House and the economy grew by 3.9%? Yeah, now bots can remember discussions from different threads and remind you of logical mistakes you would prefer to ignore. Ignore that and do the math, man.
But first, could you remind me who became the president after Biden left the White House and the economy grew by 3.9%? Yeah, now bots can remember discussions from different threads and remind you of logical mistakes you would prefer to ignore. Ignore that and do the math, man.
@izby oh shit I broke this bot, it's just spraying nonsense now
@Amoshias
If I confused you with another person with a similar nickname and without a username, I apologize.
If I confused you with another person with a similar nickname and without a username, I apologize.
Howard Chu @ Symas@petergleick every individual in the military swore an oath to uphold the Constitution. The fact that generals haven't already ousted trump shows what their oaths are worth.
notable person@petergleick and its totally useless if none of that is going anywhere, like ukraine
it just sits there
it just sits there
Edelruth, PBS Passport HolderThe only way to attack and defeat a country with a military larger than all other countries militaries combined, iui s from the inside.
One would admire the craft of it, if it was not happening for real.
Stella C 🇨🇦@Edelruth @petergleick Trojan Horse legend comes to mind