• KMAMURI@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    Holy fuck. Some finally have the balls to stand up and fight and a bunch of you are all…this is wrong. Escalation and violence is not ok…or…but they have so many big guns.

    Your country is run by a fucking dictator. Your own people are being forcefully removed from their homes and families and put in concentration camps.

    Unbelievable.

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      18 days ago

      The authorities wouldn’t send the National Guard if they thought they could just ignore you. So i’d say this is a success.

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    19 days ago

    “…The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that. And know this, the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empire’s authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege. Remember this. Try.*

    -Karis Nemik, Andor

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    19 days ago

    What’s to stop Cali national guard from ignoring Orange man? Or maybe I have been watching/reading too much fiction.

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      19 days ago

      Drawing the ire of the federal government. If their commander refuses, he’ll be removed and replaced with someone who will comply.

      That commander is appointed by the CA governor, and I don’t see Newsom fighting the feds on this (or much of anything, really, so far it’s only been joint lawsuits against economic issues). Conceivably, Trump could argue that when federalized, he could remove the commander himself and appoint an interim commander, or just leave it unfilled and have DoD control them directly.

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      19 days ago

      They swore an oath to uphold the Constitution. They have a duty to ignore, report, or even actively resist an unconstitutional command.

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    18 days ago

    AMERICA! IS FUCKED! NEVER COMING AGAIN TO SAVE THE FUCKING DAY YEAH!