• arrow74@lemm.ee
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      Or its revival. This might become the spark that turns these protests into a revolution.

      A new Boston massacre may be in our future

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        Remember this, everyone. The Boston Massacre was the day that “laid the foundation for Independence.”

        • John Adams, Patriot, Founding Father, and attorney who volunteered to defend the British soldiers at Boston in a court of law.

        He described the patriots who were massacred and shot at as a “mob.” His arguments in court ensured that six of the eight British soldiers were acquitted, and the other two were charged with manslaughter, not murder.

        Why? Because he was a traitor?

        No. Because he was a Patriot. Because justice is blind. Because the people of Boston would have lynched all eight in the town square without a fair trial.

        Because they were a mob, and they had every reason to be a mob. The soldiers, in turn, had genuine reason to be afraid for their lives, and there was no proof that six of those eight soldiers killed anyone that day.

        Those were the arguments that a founding father and future President made in a court of law.

        Even the enemy is human, and deserves a fair chance. That is what due process is. That is what justice is. That is one of the many great ideals that founded this country, and it is being ground into dust beneath the boots of Fascism.

        Be patriots.

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        I honestly hope this is the case, that would clearly be the best possibly outcome.

        Revolution can also be slow, especially when it comes to tech oligarchs helping to enable to current administration, they can easily help obfuscate the narrative.

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      Oh, that happened the instant the SCOTUS declared the president above the law and Biden didn’t say “fuck you, idiots”, fire all the justices who ruled in favor of that decision at gunpoint, appoint all new justices in their place, and then declare that ruling void by fiat. If you’re about to say “the president can’t do that”, the SCOTUS declared the president above the law, he actually can.

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          It genuinely goes back to Nixon and Goldwater. This is all an evolution of the southern strategy. Get enough people to vote for one thing and everything else is on the menu. (Also, convincing people to not vote at all goes hand in hand with this. Looking at you, protest voters.)

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        It was really hard to watch. SCOTUS created this monster executive with unlimited and almost unchecked powers, Biden declared that Trump was a danger to democracy itself, and then… crickets. It was heart-breaking that he didn’t even try to curb the limits of power of the Presidency by doing something SCOTUS was going to rule against, handing the next administration everything.

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      we had a good run!

      I’d rank it as ‘just OK’ compared to how the rest of the western developed world is doing and how many resources and advantages we had from the start. We can do much better next time. I think in the upcoming defederation we are not only going to let the south secede, we will insist on it. Godspeed to texas, florida, and the south.

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        Given the fact that the US was the first modern democracy, was born from a revolution, and was hobbled by the fucking South from day one is say it did pretty damned good. Seriously it could’ve failed as early as the whiskey rebellion but it didn’t.

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      The downfall of democracy is the existence of the US. The downfall of the US is the birth of democracy elsewhere.

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        🤣

        Compared of what is to come yes! But I get how you feel, things have been in decline for a long time but this is definitely going to be the darkest chapter yet.