chapotraphouse

Don't you yanks have the national guard for that?

This was already done during the george floyd protests. Theyll give cops military gear and use them. The cops will just be given a blanket "do what you have to do" order and face no consequences for mass violence.

Federal+State+local police and sheriff's departments, ICE, FBI, IRS agents, there's lots of armed agents of the government that could be drafted without even activating militias. The US is a police state.

There's a point at which I think certain states will just start ignoring the feds.

I don't think so. But all of this is a guessing game. Still - I'm certain people like Gavin Newsom won't do that. He's surely dreaming of becoming president in 2028. And I think he's going to keep moving to the right.

You'd have to start calling up "militias" and shit. That shit isn't gonna be as disciplined as the regular military.

i usually spell that word "freikorps"

Drone swarms

Trump sets himself up as the fall guy for austerity and the controlled opposition party gets to keep his cuts without all the negative media attention.

This happens in the Republic of Samsung and Housing Debt every couple of years.

What would be the point though?

I think there are two things.

Trump decides to push things to 11 because he's unhinged, deluded, and impatient to rule the US with an iron fist. I think it's possible that the assassination attempt broke his brain completely and nearly broke his connection to reality. And once he got reelected - he started to think of himself as an Übermensch.

If he invokes the act, etc - I think the GOP won't stop him in any way, shape, or form. The most they'll do is tell the media they are "very concerned". If Trump continues on his insane path and I think he will - election day next year will* be the biggest bloodbath for the GOP ever. The US economy will be wrecked. And via doge/Elon - Trump will have defunded Medicare, Medicare, and Social Security. Plus Trump will have defunded and/or damaged other large parts of the federal government.

*If elections are free and fair. I think they won't be in the red states.

The question is, are these people competent enough to understand that

I just saw this Bluesky comment a minute ago. I had to read it twice because I couldn't figure out what they meant exactly.

A key strategic problem with talking about a “liberal counterinsurgency” as if it’s a BAD thing: I can guarantee you the vast majority of the protesters out there yesterday think that’d be a very GOOD thing and would be totally mystified by this phrasing.

https://subium.com/profile/faineg.bsky.social/post/3lm4fizrilk2a

Even after reading it twice - like I was cheating on a test - I had to look at the comments because I still wasn't getting it. I should be better at solving these Bluesky lib puzzles. But I just can't get used to the particular Bluesky libs who want very badly to punch left proudly and openly. But but some reason (It's uncouth?) they don't. Instead they cover their superiority and Olympic medal-class self-righteousness with odd elliptical phrasing. In my entire life - I've never seen such stuff anywhere else but at Bluesky.

My wild guess is that OP must have seen a leftist "liberal counterinsurgency" joke and they got real mad about it. Or maybe that didn't actually happen in reality. It only happened in their own head. But they still got real mad about it anyway.

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I guess somebody did make a "liberal counterinsurgency" joke after all!

A reply

That account is pure tankie trash

I have no idea what "that account" is.

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Yeesh. Lots of terrible anti-leftist "humor" and "all politics is sexual pathology" in this thread.

I am definitely going to regret asking this but wtf is "liberal counterinsurgency"

https://subium.com/profile/proptermalone.bsky.social/post/3lm4gudbw7k2v

What a fucked up timeline even down to the tiniest, most unimportant details.

Other names: Mencius Moldbug

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin

Well hey good thing none of that sounds familiar!

Aw hell, my bad post about a Protracted Treatler's War might come true

I just remembered I forgot to post this last month. I wonder how many photos he took to get just the right expression.

https://bsky.app/profile/alfranken.bsky.social/post/3lk7kgvz3b22f

The second post is a plug for a Nexflix series he's in.