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  • This is the beginning. He wants an excuse to declare martial law.

    He’s still holding back and being strategic at this point, once he establishes a permanent military branch to oversee California that’s when shit really hits the fan.

    Getting all blue states and jurisdictions to start withholding federal taxes until we have a federal government who is actually representing us again, is a much better plan than telling a bunch of civilians to go fight the military. You are literally sending people to be slaughtered and kick off a second civil war, but I’m pretty sure you’re probably fully aware of that.




  • When you’re left with no other alternative, then yes. Why not try to form a coalition of Americans that will stand together against Trump before we dissolve into a second civil war where individual blue states are going against the entire U.S. government?

    How about some support from other blue states and jurisdictions? Where are the calls for blue states senators and representatives to vocally stand with California, where are the mayors and city councils willing to follow Glendale’s example?

    Sending people into a suicide mission without actually backing them up, is like supporting a war you’re not fighting in (yet). When it’s your turn, you will hope that others will stand with you instead of remotely egging you on to be David against Goliath.


  • I’m not arguing it’s the core of science, I’m arguing it shouldn’t be dismissed completely bc these people want to weaponize it.

    Science should always include healthy skepticism and debate. If not, you’ve basically just reinvented religion.

    If you’ve worked in science, there is a good chance you’ve met somebody like that. There are unfortunately many people that seem to have a pathological inability to acknowledge when they’re wrong or accept that they made a mistake.

    If you have worked in science and believe you’ve never encountered that attitude you’re either very lucky or you’re that guy.



  • Yep, and it wasn’t even the military, it was just a local police force. I believe they killed 11 people and around 5 children. The 40th anniversary just passed.

    If a single police force using weapons from 40 years ago could do something like that without a second thought, I hope people consider what the outcome would realistically be today, when encouraging people in California to strap themselves and head into a suicide mission against police, federal agencies, national guard, military, Palantir, and private military companies like Blackwater under a president who has already told them “he who serves his country, commits no crime.”





  • Progressive in terms of voters or in terms of the GOP?

    If you’re not supporting the Führer Trump and his policies, the GOP will claim you’re a “progressive” being paid by George Soros. Anyone disagreeing and from California might as well just be wearing a shirt that says “I’m with Soros,” from their perspective.

    My governor does this all the fucking time, and I’m in Louisiana. Anytime something doesn’t go his way, he claims it is due to outsiders like Soros influencing local politics. Yet he’s literally run televised ads for his own policies that were paid for by a Heritage Foundation affiliate, and somehow that’s ok.

    I’ve been very disappointed by people like Newsome, and wasting time trying to compromise/reaching across the aisle to literal extremists bullshit that so many Dems have been playing since Jan, but I have to say, I truly believe he’s handling Trump trying to instigate a federal takeover in the smartest way possible.

    Blue states are not winning a fist fight right now, and that’s why threatening to withhold federal taxes is the best strategy. I hope other blue states join him.

    What Trump is expecting is taxation without representation. Why should anyone pay taxes to a king? This is America.