Putin wants Eastern Europe, spends decades on active measures to pry the U.S. out of NATO, and cultivates useful idiots, Epstein Island Rewards™ members, and oligarch wannabes willing to sell America for scrap, while the media conflates sounding any alarm with alarmism and a third of the country praises the regime for protecting us from the threat of undocumented farm workers and whatever they deem "woke."
Join us in the fight. Let's get in good trouble. ✊️
"Be relentlessly lethal" reeks of that Hegsethian toxicbro jingoism that probably resonated with Charles Bradford Cooper II, Trump's pick to lead CENTCOM, when he gave that instruction to soldiers at the start of the #IranWar.
There are reasons serious military forces don't debase themselves in this way. My Lai and Abu Ghraib, to name two.
This is the general elections in Denmark in a nutshell:
Candidate Rune Højer of Dansk Folkeparti states online that DF will now introduce a law making it illegal for Muslims to call to prayer over loud speakers in our cities.
A journalist then calls him up to ask if he has ever heard Muslims call to prayer over loud speakers in Denmark where we have noise regulation rules. Højer replies no, but he FEARS that it COULD become a problem.
And 3200 have liked his post.
@randahl This reminds me A LOT of the state-level legislation in the U.S. to prevent the adoption of Sharia law.
A horrifying and effective way to sucker voters in believing that Obama (who was president at the time) was [A] secretly Muslim, and [B] scheming to turn the U.S. into an Islamic theocratic state.
Oh, and [C]: to enrage future Trump voters, so they could feel like true patriots by committing hate crimes against Muslims.
6/5 ???
... which leads me to the one question which I ask over and over again ad nauseum.
If our government no longer works on behalf of the people, then why do the people work to sustain the government?
If our government is being weaponized against us, why the f*ck are we buying them bullets?
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* POSIWID: The purpose of a system is what it does. In this case, that the #IranWar can be best understood by its most significant effects, and not by letting #TrumpRegime liars frame the war in a way that ignores the effect it actually has.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_what_it_does
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If one adheres to POSIWID*, you're paying for a war to shift the public eye from the #EpsteinFiles which show that 🟠️, himself, raped teenagers and played a criminally significant role in their trafficking.
You're paying for a war to jack up the price of oil, giving #Trump cause make it easier to lift sanctions on Russia so his boss** can sell oil on the open market in order to fund his war in Ukraine and (coming soon) war against NATO in the Baltic states.
RE: https://federate.social/@mattblaze/116208269560786006
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Happy Wednesday! Any plans today?
If you're an American taxpayer you're paying $1,000,000,000.00 JUST TODAY to fund a #WarInIran not authorized by Congress (can't get GOP senators on the record voting for war, after all).
Like it or not, your paying for an #IllegalWar intended neither to destroy whatever remains of Iran's nuclear program (after we obliterated it a few months ago??) nor to end Iran's extremist government.
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RE: https://mastodon.online/@billyjoebowers/116201209037607394
Billions of dollars, so many innocent lives lost in this #IllegalWar, and no plan whatsoever.
If you follow me, you're probably tired of hearing me harp on this, but our founding fathers dumped British tea in the harbor for less! We, the American people and taxpayers, must stop funding this government, whose every action is only in service of Trump.
It is time, right now, for a #GeneralStrike and a #TaxStrike.
Randahl Fink