• ɔiƚoxɘup@infosec.pub
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    To those that didn’t see that coming, I’m sorry. To those that did, I know you have the supplies to ride the storm, and I’ll see you on the other end of this. Hopefully it’s over reasonably soon and we can rebuild better.

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    And this at a time where neither Congress nor the Supreme Court seem willing to provide checks and balances on the executive.

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    Feds are already crawling all over the place, no more free press, supreme court is pocketed, congress has fucked off.

    What would martial law do? Make a cerfuw or something?

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        I’ve heard this, but it loads completely fine, with no-script and no exceptions.

        Is it just the capcha that does it?

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          No. The “service” alters pages (so not much of an archive) to include code that launches a DDoS attack against a blogger. As such it has been banned from Wikipedia.

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            Gyrovague doxed them years ago and they held a grudge.

            It’s not right, but it’s also not entirely unexpected. I try not to use them, but all the alternatives seem to be dog shit slow.

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    And since that’s absolute bullshit, we can expect our police and maybe even the military to step up and do the right thing, yeah? They’ll be on our side, right???

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    It’s become a meme to ask Americans at what point they will use their supposed 2nd amendment rights to start shooting at magas. And it has become similarly a bit of a meme to laugh at the ignorant non-americans for suggesting it.

    But let’s be real. When the magas are threatening to abolish your democracy, you yanks need to make a counter-threat of violence to keep it. It doesn’t even need to be “serious”. That drunk “we have guns too” lady is actually a fantastic start. But it needs to be followed up by more senior Democrats and I’m not talking about chuck schumer, just someone above “drunk candidate in Fayette county”. Someone needs to say that if the Republicans enact martial law there will be blood. Say it jokingly. Say it in wacky wink wink way. But fucking say it. Get your wackiest weirdo politician to actually put the gun on the table.

    If you don’t, then at some point it becomes a matter whether you actually care about your democracy. Like, fuck, maybe you don’t.

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      I’m against this nazi shit, and as an avid marksman and gun collector, I have a small arsenal at my disposal

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      If actual political office-holders were saying this, opposing office-holders should certainly respond. No need for office-holders to respond to every looney spouting nonsense on a street corner.

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      Just takes a few conscientious people. Foreclose on soldiers homes. Kick their kids out of school. Refuse to insure their vehicles.

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    If they truly care about voter fraud, they should override Trump and ensure external election observers are present at all polling stations and throughout the counting.

    If they truly want martial law until the election is confirmed, to ensure the election wasn’t ‘rigged’, they should invite a UN peace keeping force to administer it.

    But, somehow, I suspect their motivations aren’t based on any concern for legality, justice or democracy.

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      This is Steve Bannon calling for it. He’s a true fascist through and through. He’s also a criminal

      Of everyone in this administration, he is most likely to go to prison after Trump’s term. He deserves it, and he’s an easy target for the admin to scapegoat for everything

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      They should just skip the whole walk around the park and just give their supporters brown shirts, arm bands and some kind of blunt force weapon (with no restrictions) … and to keep them motivated in the evenings, get them to parade around with torches at night

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    This whole thing smells like a long rung plot leading to a coup. A whole bunch of rich conservative men are seeking to overthrow the US constitution and take the reigns themselves via proxies. All this is supported by Russia and China and anyone else that wants a bigger share of the world for themselves.

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    It’s very telling they they say if “he” loses the midterms. HE is not running. But they all know what it means. If THEY lose, he’s either being put IN a prison or UNDER one.

    Fingers crossed it’s the latter.

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      His first term was much like this one. Not quite as bold in the corruption category but still similar. Biden had four years to do something, anything, about it and decided not to. Despite the fact they obviously should, they’re not putting Trump in prison this time either.

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      They’ll wait until Vance can run for 2 terms, but they’re definitely going to kill him.

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        Considering how easy Trump is to manipulate, there is no point in killing him, when time will do it. The focus of each oligarch would be on getting Trump to anoint their favored successor puppet.

        So you will have Vought, Thiel, Elon, Bezos, Miller, and so on vying for Trump’s ear on the matter.

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    Trump isn’t running in the midterms; he’s supposed to not have a horse in the race.

    Congress though? THEY could lose the midterms. Congess isn’t supposed to be a bunch of presidential yes men. Trump isn’t supposed to be the party leader.

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      “Supposed to” is how the US got into this mess in the first place. He and the GOP have broken so many norms that it doesn’t apply anymore.